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Samantha Shader\u00a0 –\u00a0 Pottawatomie County Public Safety Center<\/p><\/div>\n
By Vincent Barone
\nNew York Post<\/p>\n
An upstate woman and\u00a0two Brooklyn lawyers<\/a>\u00a0were indicted Friday on federal explosives and arson charges for allegedly tossing Molotov cocktails at NYPD vehicles during George Floyd protests in New York City.<\/p>\n Samantha Shader, 27, of Catskill, is accused of hurling the makeshift explosive at an NYPD vehicle occupied by four police officers on early Saturday morning, May 30.<\/p>\n Prosecutors allege Shader bit one of the officer\u2019s legs when she was being taken into custody.<\/p>\n Around the same time, Brooklyn lawyers Urooj Rahman, 31, and Colinford Mattis, 32, were accused of tossing their own Molotov cocktail at an unoccupied police vehicle in Brooklyn during a separate attack.<\/p>\n Colinford Mattis, left, and Urooj RahmanAP<\/span><\/p>\n All three face life in prison on the seven-count indictments, charging them with the use of explosives, arson, use of explosives to commit a felony, arson conspiracy, use of a destructive device, civil disorder, and making or possessing a destructive device.<\/p>\n \u201cSuch criminal acts should never be confused with legitimate protest,\u201d said United States Attorney Richard Donoghue in a statement. \u201cThose who carry out attacks on NYPD Officers or vehicles are not protesters, they are criminals, and they will be treated as such.\u201d<\/p>\n No police were hurt by the explosives. Shader\u2019s lit bottle never ignited. The explosive Rahman and Mattis tossed did ignite and set the empty, parked police vehicle ablaze, prosecutors allege.<\/p>\n Prosecutors said Shader, whose\u00a0actions were allegedly caught on camera<\/a>, has an\u00a0extensive rap sheet<\/a>\u00a0that includes arrests in 11 different states.<\/p>\n In January of last year, she was busted for interfering with a police officer in Waterford, Connecticut \u2014 a few years after she was convicted in February of 2017 for possession of a controlled substance in Shawnee, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n Both Rahman and Mattis were described as humble Brooklynites who worked their way to prestigious law schools and promising careers.<\/p>\n Mattis, who was on furlough from Pryor Cashman before his arrest, has been suspended. He had been a member of Brooklyn\u2019s Community Board 5, but was removed by the borough president for lack of attendance, according to board chair Andre Mitchell.<\/p>\n![\"Colinford](\"https:\/\/thenypost.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/06\/america-protests-firebombing-charges.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=300)
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