Colinford MattisDays after he was arrested in connection with the alleged firebombing of an unoccupied New York City Police Department vehicle in Brooklyn, Pryor Cashman associate Colinford Mattis has been suspended from the firm without pay, managing partner Ronald Shechtman announced Tuesday.
The suspension became effective Monday and is pending the resolution of Mattis’ criminal case in the Eastern District of New York, according to Shechtman.
Mattis was arrested alongside another attorney, Urooj Rahman, who is accused of emerging from Mattis’ van to throw a Molotov cocktail in Fort Greene before Mattis drove the pair away.
A federal judge ruled Monday afternoon that Mattis and Rahman could each be released to home confinement on a $250,000 bond, though the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York on Tuesday filed a motion for a stay pending appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Rahman is also accused of offering a Molotov cocktail to people protesting in Brooklyn, according to prosecutors, and additional materials for making Molotov cocktails were allegedly found in Mattis’ van.
U.S. District Judge Margo Brodie criticized the alleged firebombing as she ruled that Mattis and Rahman could return to their homes under supervision.
“The conduct was reckless, it was violent, it was completely lawless,” Brodie said.
In an initial statement Sunday, Shechtman said Mattis had been furloughed since April in connection with the firm’s response to the coronavirus crisis.
Shechtman acknowledged the issues at the center of protests in Brooklyn and around the country in recent days while criticizing Mattis’ alleged response.
“While we were already living in fraught times, the terrible situation around the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis has added painful stress to our lives,” Shechtman said. “As we confront critical issues around historic and ongoing racism and inequity in our society, I am saddened to see this young man allegedly involved in the worst kind of reaction to our shared outrage over what had occurred.”
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