{"id":2220144,"date":"2024-04-13T12:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T16:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/domestic-terrorism-man-sentenced-over-firebombing-of-wisconsin-pro-life-building\/"},"modified":"2024-04-13T12:25:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T16:25:56","slug":"domestic-terrorism-man-sentenced-over-firebombing-of-wisconsin-pro-life-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/domestic-terrorism-man-sentenced-over-firebombing-of-wisconsin-pro-life-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Man Sentenced for Firebombing Pro-Life Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fdomestic-terrorism-man-sentenced-over-firebombing-of-wisconsin-pro-life-building%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=2220144&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 29-year-old man, Hridindu Roychowdhury, was\u200c sentenced to 7.5 years \u200cin prison for firebombing a Wisconsin pro-life building in May 2022. \u200bThe attack, following a leaked \u2063Supreme Court opinion on abortion, \u200dwas deemed \u2063an act \u2063of domestic\u200c terrorism. Arrested in \u200bBoston while trying to \u200dflee the country, \u2064Roychowdhury faced a potential 20-year sentence. Hridindu Roychowdhury, aged 29, received\u200d a 7.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/entire-u-s-senate-invited-to-meet-virtually-with-zelensky-on-saturday\/\" title=\"Entire U.S. Senate Invited to Meet Virtually With Zelensky on Saturday\">5-year prison term<\/a> for firebombing \u200ba Wisconsin pro-life structure\u2063 in May 2022. The incident, seen as domestic terrorism, occurred shortly after a leaked Supreme Court \u2063abortion opinion. Roychowdhury, apprehended in Boston attempting to escape, \u2063faced a maximum 20-year imprisonment.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A 29-year-old man who firebombed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/wisconsin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wisconsin<\/a> pro-life group\u2019s headquarters in May 2022 was sentenced to nearly eight years in prison this week after he was arrested last year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hridindu Roychowdhury was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/wisconsin-man-sentenced-prison-2022-firebombing-madison-building\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sentenced<\/a> to 7.5 years in prison on Wednesday after he pled guilty in December 2023 to throwing two Molotov cocktails through the windows of a Wisconsin Family Action building in Madison. The attack came just a week after an early draft of a Supreme Court majority opinion leaked that indicated <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> would be struck down. The phrase \u201cIf abortions aren\u2019t safe then you aren\u2019t either,\u201d was also graffitied outside the building. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Somebody vandalized and allegedly threw Molotov cocktails into Wisconsin Family Action\u2019s \u2014 an anti-abortion rights group \u2014 Madison office, writing w\/ graffiti, \u201cIf abortions aren\u2019t safe, then you aren\u2019t either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story TK <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6Wfnyeh9hQ\">pic.twitter.com\/6Wfnyeh9hQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexander Shur (@AlexanderShur) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexanderShur\/status\/1523320097993076737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Federal Judge William William Conley, an Obama appointee, who sentenced Roychowdhury, could have given him up to 20 years in prison. Roychowdhury <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/suspect-nabbed-in-firebombing-of-pro-life-clinic-after-dobbs-leak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was arrested<\/a> in Boston as he was attempting to fly out of the country. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cRoychowdhury\u2019s arson was an act of domestic terrorism,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Timothy O\u2019Shea for the Western District of Wisconsin. \u201cDomestic terrorism is cowardly and profoundly undemocratic. It is not speech; it is not an exchange of ideas; instead, it is an attempt to harm or frighten one\u2019s fellow citizens, thus driving Americans apart and weakening the fabric of our democratic society.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Members of Wisconsin Family Action <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilyaction.org\/wisconsin-family-actions-statement-regarding-sentencing-of-individual-who-firebombed-its-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were<\/a> disappointed with the sentence after recommending that Roychowdhury get 15 years for the attack. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe are disappointed,\u201d said the group\u2019s president emeritus Julaine Appling. \u201cThe court missed an opportunity to strengthen the protection of constitutional rights like free speech and free exercise, rights that have themselves been under assault in recent years. The defendant\u2019s act of domestic terrorism to threaten our people, our families and friends, our neighbors, and our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-abortion-terrorist-gets-lighter-sentence-than-peaceful-pro-life-activists\/\" title=\"Pro-choice extremist receives lenient sentence compared to nonviolent pro-life advocates\">greater pro-life community<\/a> is unconscionable. Ultimately, the defendant \u2014 and others who attacked pro-life groups they disagree with \u2014 attacked our civil society and the constitutional rights foundational to it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712932862202000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0plT8RRdMy9XUpIhocnjQS\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wisconsin Family Action President Christine File said that the sentence \u201clacks proportionality\u201d for the crime. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt is notable that nearly 60 people filled the courtroom to support this person who committed a violent, unprovoked, and hate-filled crime,\u201d she said. \u201cWill the society-of-tomorrow support terrorism intended to silence people with whom we disagree? But perhaps most concerning, in the two years since the attack the defendant did not at any point express remorse to the people he targeted and harmed \u2014 until the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-teacher-arrested-for-allegedly-spraying-disinfectant-at-students-who-didnt-wear-masks-properly-faces-felony-child-abuse-charges\/\" title=\"Florida teacher arrested for allegedly spraying disinfectant at students who didn't wear masks properly, faces felony child abuse charges\">judge asked<\/a> him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Six <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/these-vulnerable-dems-wont-say-if-they-support-unpopular-unfettered-abortion-but-theyve-backed-it-before\/\" title=\"These Vulnerable Dems Won\u2019t Say If They Support Unpopular Unfettered Abortion \u2014 But They\u2019ve Backed It Before\">pro-lifers face<\/a> over 10 years in prison over a peaceful protest at a Tennessee abortion facility after they were found guilty of a conspiracy against rights in February. They are being sentenced in July. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 29-year-old man, Hridindu Roychowdhury, was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for firebombing a Wisconsin pro-life building in May 2022. 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