“Islamophobia” made her firebomb the police cruiser! Let her go! Urooj Rahman is trying this defense in New York City, where it will likely work.
“Firebombing Attorney Begs for Light Sentence, Citing Inebriation and ‘Unprocessed Trauma,’” by Josh Christenson, Washington Free Beacon, September 29, 2022:
A left-wing lawyer who pleaded guilty to firebombing a police cruiser is asking for a commutation of her sentence, pointing to the fact that she was inebriated at the time of the offense and coping with “unprocessed trauma,” according to court filings.
Attorneys for Urooj Rahman argue the self-described human-rights activist was “numb, disassociated, and inebriated” when she threw a Molotov cocktail into a New York City police car during the George Floyd riots in May 2020. Lawyers say Rahman was also reeling from her many “abusive partnership relationships” and processing “early trauma” from being taunted as a Muslim after 9/11….
