2 plead guilty to throwing Molotov cocktail at NYPD car during May 2020 protests

Two attorneys -- Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman -- pleaded guilty to throwing a lit Molotov cocktail into an unoccupied NYPD vehicle in Brooklyn, during 2020 protests.

Two attorneys pleaded guilty Wednesday to throwing a lit Molotov cocktail into an unoccupied vehicle belonging to the New York Police Department in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, during May 2020 demonstrations to protest the murder of George Floyd.

Colinford Mattis, an associate at Pryor Cashman, and Urooj Rahman, a public interest lawyer, exchanged text messages the night of May 30, 2020, that prosecutors quoted during the plea hearing.

"I hope they burn everything down. Need to burn all the police stations down," assistant U.S. Attorney Ian Richardson quoted one message saying.

"Set a police car on fire after a lot of fights and check my story to see the trajectory of burning," Richardson said in quoting another message from Rahman.