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Molotov Cocktails Rahman Interview Now
$102000 Raised Brief and Transcript Before
June 23 2CIR
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Soundcloud
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FEDERAL
COURTHOUSE, June 20 –
Amid protests about the murder
of George Floyd, late on May
30 the U.S. Attorney for the
Eastern District of New York
got a complaint signed
by Magistrate Judge
Sanket J. Bulsara about a
Molotov cocktail attack on an
NYPD vehicle.
Inner City Press,
which covered the protests in
Foley Square and at One Police
Plaza on May 29 (video here
and edited here),
and aftermath
on Fifth Avenue on May
30, publishes the
complaint (later-written song
on Soundcloud).
On
June 5 the
Second Circuit
Court of Appeals heard
the
government's
appeal of the
release of
Mattis and
Rahman. Inner
City Press
live tweeted
it, here,
and see below.
Now
on June 20
Inner City
Press is
publishing the
EDNY
transcript, on
Scrib'd
and Patreon, and
Collinford
Mattis' reply
brief to the
Second Circuit, also
on Scrib'd
and
Patreon.
On
June 19 the prosecutors'
reply brief
said
that "Rahman
gave a
video-taped
interview
earlier in the
evening of the
firebombing,
during which
she stated,
among other
things: “This
s–t won’t ever
stop unless we
f–kin’ take it
all down,” “I
think the
mayor should
have done that
[held back the
NYPD], because
if he really
cared about
his police
officers, he
should have
realized that
it’s not worth
them getting
hurt,” and
“This has got
to stop. And
the only way
they hear, the
only way they
hear us is
through
violence,
through the
means that
they use.” The
video is here,
from 4 hour
30 minutes.
A
letter is
being circulated
supporting
Rahman, with
more than 230
signatures,
and a
fundraiser
with $87,000
up from
$79,000
only the
night before:
"An Open
Letter from
the Fordham
Law Community
concerning
Urooj Rahman
‘15 and Colin
Mattis: As
current
Fordham Law
students,
student
organizations,
faculty, staff
and alumni, we
write to
express our
deep dismay
with the
federal
government’s
aggressive
charging and
pursuit of the
pre-trial
detention of
Urooj Rahman,
a 2015 Fordham
Law graduate,
and Colinford
(“Colin”)
Mattis. Urooj
and Colin are
attorneys of
color and
respected
community
members who
were arrested
on May 30,
2020 while
protesting the
murder of
George Floyd
and systemic
anti-Black
police
brutality. On
that day,
Urooj and
Colin took
part in an
unprecedented
national and
global
uprising that
comprised
hundreds of
thousands of
people.
Throughout
this uprising,
we have
witnessed the
Trump
Administration’s
attempts to
distract from
the reality of
police
brutality.
This includes
President
Trump’s
conspiracy
theories about
Martin Gugino,
the 75-year
old protestor
who was
hospitalized
after being
assaulted by
Buffalo police
officers; and
his
tear-gassing
of protestors
for a photo
opportunity in
front of the
White House.
The
disproportionate
prosecution of
Urooj and
Colin is
another
iteration of
the Trump
administration’s
attempt to
detract from
police
violence in
the US. And
indeed,
Rahman, a
Pakistani
Muslim
immigrant and
Mattis, a
young Black
man, are
convenient
scapegoats
given this
country’s
deeply
entrenched and
violent
history of
anti-Black
racism and
Islamophobia.
We believe
that the
Department of
Justice’s
prosecution
and efforts to
incarcerate
Urooj and
Colin are a
gross
overreach of
federal law
enforcement
power, and an
attempt to
stifle and
delegitimize
dissent
against police
brutality.
Urooj and
Colin are
facing charges
of attempting
to burn an
unoccupied and
already
damaged NYPD
vehicle during
nationwide
protests.
There is no
indication
that anyone
was in the
immediate
vicinity when
they allegedly
committed
these acts. ...
Urooj has long
been engaged
in advocacy on
the
over-policing
of Black and
Brown
communities in
New York,
particularly
around the
targeting and
over-surveillance
of Muslims
after 9/11.
She is a
graduate of
Fordham
College and
Fordham Law
School..."
On June
5 Inner City
Press noted even
that
that the
forthcoming decision
might turn on
EDNY District
Judge Brodie's
failure to
mention the
applicable
presumption.
After
5 pm on June
5, this
remand:
Full order on
Patreon here.
Watch
this site.
Live tweeted thread of appeal argument here.
On
June 2,
the appeal was filed, full
text on
Patreon here.
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