Attorneys charged with tossing Molotov cocktail at NYPD vehicle released on bail

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Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Attorneys charged in Molotov cocktail toss released on bail
Two attorneys charged with tossing Molotov cocktails at an NYPD vehicle in Brooklyn during the height of the George Floyd protests have been released on bail.

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Two attorneys charged with tossing a Molotov cocktail at an NYPD vehicle in Brooklyn during the height of the George Floyd protests have been released on bail to home confinement.

An appeals court on Tuesday reversed a decision made on June 5 to revoke the bond of Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis.

Prosecutors had argued the two suspects were a continued danger to society.

Four officers escaped the police vehicle in Fort Greene after Rahman allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail into it during last month's protests.

Rahman and Mattis were both charged with causing damage by fire and explosives to a police vehicle.

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