DOJ demands AND GETS leniency for BLM arsonist who killed father of 5

[Text Drivers are Killers]

DOJ threw the book at the nonviolent J6 protesters but they defend KILLER/ARSONISTS working for BLM.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/0...-simply-unbelievable-n2163510#google_vignette

On Tuesday, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the unrest on January 6th. Convicted of seditious conspiracy, Tarrio, who was not present at the Capitol, pleaded for leniency but received none.

The same wasn't true for a Black Lives Matter protester who set fire to a pawn shop after looting it in May 2020. Montez Lee, who appeared on video proclaiming that he was going to "burn this ***** down" ended up killing Oscar Stewart, who found himself trapped in the blaze. Stewart, who died of smoke inhalation, left behind five children.

Given that Lee had a long criminal history, you would think a harsh sentence would be in order. Instead, the DOJ turned into his biggest advocate.

Here's what the government's sentencing memo to the judge stated.

" Mr. Lee, appropriately, acknowledges that he "could have demonstrated in a different way," but that he was "caught up in the fury of the mob after living as a black man watching his peers suffer at the hands of police." As anyone watching the news world-wide knows, many other people in Minnesota were similarly caught up. There appear to have been many people in those days looking only to exploit the chaos and disorder in the interest of personal gain or random violence. 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 CBS's Mike Wallace in 1966 that "we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard."

Sure enough, the judge not only met the DOJ's request, but he surpassed it, sentencing Lee to just 10 years in prison.

 

[Text Drivers are Killers]

According to the article this monster was a career criminal and now he starts a fire and kills a guy and gets 10 years and will be free in five.

 

[Nomad]

DOJ threw the book at the nonviolent J6 protesters but they defend KILLER/ARSONISTS working for BLM.

Well, here's the guy who died in the fire....

Maybe the arsonist only got ten years because the dead guy was black?

Knowing you guys' feelings towards blacks, I'm wondering what you're complaining about.

You got rid of one and another got put away for a decade.

Don't be so greedy just because you didn't get another ten years for the killer.

Win - win for you rightie bigots.

 

[RB 60]

I would think burning to death would be one of the worst ways to die.

Myself, I'd burn that bastard alive as well. But no, a non-violent protester
gets the same 10 year sentence. Something just isn't right...

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Well, take solace in that Lee will do 8.5 years before being potentially released, and he's almost certain to end up doing the other 1.5 on a parole violation. Then toss in when he does get out, he's near 100% certain to just commit another crime and end up back in prison.

A woodchipper and pig farm would solve this problem entirely at a much lower cost to society...