An Ivy League-educated lawyer and member of a Brooklyn community board was among those arrested for hurling a Molotov cocktail at a marked NYPD vehicle amid George Floyd protests, it was revealed Sunday.
Colinford Mattis, 32, was allegedly behind the wheel of a tan minivan as his passenger, fellow attorney Urooj Rahman, allegedly hurled the incendiary at an empty NYPD vehicle outside the 88th Precinct stationhouse in Fort Greene early Saturday.
Mattis, a graduate of Princeton University and the New York University School of Law, is an associate at corporate Manhattan firm Pryor Cashman.
Brooklyn Community Board 5 in East New York lists Mattis as one of its members, though the board's president and reps didn't immediately return calls Sunday.
It's unclear how she and Mattis know each other.
"No rational human being can ever believe that hurling firebombs at police officers and vehicles is justified," said Brooklyn US Attorney Richard Donaghue.
Pryor Cashman said Mattis' employment status will be reviewed "As we obtain further information this week."
Colinford Mattis, 32, was allegedly behind the wheel of a tan minivan as his passenger, fellow attorney Urooj Rahman, allegedly hurled the incendiary at an empty NYPD vehicle outside the 88th Precinct stationhouse in Fort Greene early Saturday.
Mattis, a graduate of Princeton University and the New York University School of Law, is an associate at corporate Manhattan firm Pryor Cashman.
Brooklyn Community Board 5 in East New York lists Mattis as one of its members, though the board's president and reps didn't immediately return calls Sunday.
It's unclear how she and Mattis know each other.
"No rational human being can ever believe that hurling firebombs at police officers and vehicles is justified," said Brooklyn US Attorney Richard Donaghue.
Pryor Cashman said Mattis' employment status will be reviewed "As we obtain further information this week."
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