Biden DOJ Recommended Reduced Sentence for BLM Arson Killer for Incredible Reason

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Biden DOJ Recommended Reduced Sentence for BLM Arson Killer for Incredible Reason
By Nick Arama | Feb 10, 2022 3:15 PM ET

Our Justice Department is now in the hands of the left, and it’s one of the first things that needs to be rectified when Joe Biden is booted out by the voters in 2024 because the things they are doing now are just against the American people.

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There could be no greater example of this than the approach that the DOJ took to the sentencing of Montez Terriel Lee. According to the prosecutors, Lee broke into a pawn shop during the BLM riots in Minneapolis on May 28, 2020, and set fire to the building, destroying the business. They had a video of him pouring the accelerant and saying, “F**k this place, we’re going to burn this b**ch down!” He was also captured on video raising a fist there, as well as discussing what other places they could “hit” next. The police later found the body of Oscar Stewart in the building; He was killed by the fire. Stewart had five children. Lee pled guilty to one count of arson.

As the prosecutors themselves admit in their sentencing memo, the guidelines would suggest a sentence of 235-240 months (19.5 to 20 years). Lee had prior convictions for burglary, assault, violation of no-contact order, and theft of property, including assaulting a woman and rupturing her eardrum. Yet the longest sentence he had ever previously received, according to the prosecutors, was 60 days.

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But, the Biden DOJ recommended instead that he get a sentence of only 144 months, or 12 years.

Why? The reason is infuriating.

There appear also to have been many people who felt angry, frustrated, and disenfranchised, and who were attempting, in many cases in an unacceptably reckless and dangerous manner, to give voice to those feelings. Mr. Lee appears to be squarely in this latter category. And even the great American advocate for non-violence and social justice, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stated in an interview with CBC’s Mike Wallace in 1966 that “we’ve got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard.” [….]

Mr. Lee was terribly misguided, and his actions had tragic, unthinkable consequences. But he appears to have believed that he was, in Dr. King’s eloquent words, engaging in ‘the language of the unheard.’