{"id":1507370,"date":"2022-06-08T08:19:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T12:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1507370"},"modified":"2022-06-08T08:20:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T12:20:04","slug":"sponsor-of-j6-show-trial-watch-party-demanded-soft-treatment-for-lawyers-who-firebombed-nypd-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sponsor-of-j6-show-trial-watch-party-demanded-soft-treatment-for-lawyers-who-firebombed-nypd-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Sponsor Of J6 Show Trial Watch Party Demanded Soft Treatment For Lawyers Who Firebombed NYPD Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsponsor-of-j6-show-trial-watch-party-demanded-soft-treatment-for-lawyers-who-firebombed-nypd-car%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1507370&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A group of far-left organizers sponsoring watch parties for Thursday\u2019s show trial hearing by the House Jan. 6 Committee demanded soft treatment for a pair of attorneys sentenced last week in firebombing a New York City police car.<\/p>\n<p>Demand Progress, a project of the leftist Sixteen Thirty Fund, is <a href=\"https:\/\/jan6watchevents.com\/\">named<\/a> as a partner organization for January 6 Watch Events gearing up for Thursday\u2019s prime time programming to \u201cuncover the truth, demand accountability and ensure violence like this never happens again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to make sure these hearings break through the busy news cycle and reach the American public,\u201d the event website\u2019s description reads. \u201cWe cannot allow Trump Republicans to successfully cover up one of the greatest attacks ever planned against American\u2019s freedom to decide who governs in our name!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobilize.us\/jan6hearings\/event\/460817\/\">flagship watch party<\/a> across from Capitol Hill Thursday night will even feature free Ben and Jerry\u2019s ice cream while attendees watch what Democrats routinely characterize as the worst assault on American democracy on par with Pearl Harbor and 9\/11. The committee <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/07\/former-abc-news-president-producing-primetime-j6-show-trial-hearings\/\">recruited<\/a> a former ABC News executive to up the drama for prime-time television.<\/p>\n<p>While Demand Progress sponsors parties to raise the alarm over right-wing \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/democracy-isnt-dying-capitol-riot-jan-6-donald-trump-election-11641421265\">insurrection<\/a>,\u201d the group demanded soft sentencing for two radical attorneys who torched a New York City police vehicle two years ago amid nationwide street violence over George Floyd\u2019s murder. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, attorneys Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman each <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/02\/lawyers-who-torched-nypd-van-agree-to-new-plea-deal\/\">pled guilty<\/a> to conspiracy charges in a deal struck with federal prosecutors for tossing the Molotov cocktail at a Brooklyn riot on May 30, 2020. The pair had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/20\/nyregion\/george-floyd-protests-lawyers-plea-deal.html\">previously pled guilty<\/a> to possession of a destructive device in October, but the threat of added years through a \u201cterrorist enhancement\u201d remained. In the plea deal landed last week, prosecutors dropped the enhancement and requested maximum prison time of two years as opposed to the decades they faced months ago. <\/p>\n<p>Mattis and Rahman officially pled guilty to conspiracy to commit arson and to make and possess an unregistered destructive device.<\/p>\n<p>In a coalition <a href=\"https:\/\/ccrjustice.org\/letter-civil-and-human-rights-organizations-legal-associations-and-policy-institutes-support-colin\">letter<\/a> with more than a dozen other leftist groups on June 22, 2020, Demand Progress condemned the prosecution as \u201cexcessive and politically-motivated charges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Trump Administration is wielding the punitive force of this system against Colin and Urooj, who are Black and South Asian, respectively, in order to chill popular protest against the unjust status quo,\u201d the coalition wrote led by the Center for Constitutional Rights. \u201cWe call for the immediate release of Colin and Urooj on bail and for the federal government to drop these excessive charges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A day later, the Demand Progress<a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/demandprogress\/status\/1275425832543096838\"> shared <\/a>the letter on Twitter demanding charges to be dropped. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Demand-Progress.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-273677\" width=\"658\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Demand-Progress.jpg 881w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Demand-Progress-300x237-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Demand-Progress-768x606-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Demand Progress\u2019 about-face on criminal prosecution over civil unrest marks another episode of endless double standards for political violence. Democrats on Thursday will pursue wall-to-wall coverage of the events on Jan. 6, 2021 after spending the entire summer and fall preceding the Capitol riot <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/01\/07\/28-times-media-and-democrats-excused-or-endorsed-violence-committed-by-left-wing-activists\/\">normalizing<\/a> violent uprisings when it served their cause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is more proof that socialist Democrats don\u2019t care about rioting,\u201d Matt Schlapp, the president of the American Conservative Union, told The Federalist. \u201cThey want to put on a show to attempt to distract from their failures.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of far-left organizers sponsoring watch parties for Thursday\u2019s show trial hearing by the House Jan. 6 Committee demanded soft treatment for a pair of attorneys sentenced last week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}