A Tacoma woman and BLM radical who plead guilty to setting fire to five Seattle police vehicles during the 2020 George Floyd riots was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison Tuesday, the Seattle Times reported.
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Margaret Aislinn Channon was arrested on June 11, 2020, after federal agents and also Capital authorities identified her from video showing a person with distinctive clothing and also distinct tattoos on her hands setting fire to the police vehicles, the newspaper mentioned.
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United State District Court Of Law Judge John Coughenour informed the 26-year-old during the course of penalizing that her activities led to “tremendous damage to Black Lives Matter in Seattle,” the Times noted.
Channon likewise broke into downtown businesses and stole clothes and also other items, the paper claimed, adding that court documents signified she acknowledged smashing the window at a Verizon retail store and also entering a sandwich shop and also smashing the cash register.
“The right to protest, gather, and call out injustices is one of the dearest and most important rights we enjoy in the United States,” U.S. Attorney Nick Brown noted, according to the Times. “Indeed, our democracy depends on both exercising and protecting these rights. But Ms. Channon’s conduct was itself an attack on democracy.”
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Brown incorporated that Channon “used the cover of lawful protests to carry out dangerous and destructive acts, risking the safety of everyone around her and undermining the important messages voiced by others,” the paper wrote.
Federal prosecutors added that Channon risked the lives of numerous militants when she used a lighter and also an aerosol can to make a blowtorch to start an automobile ablaze, the Times mentioned, based upon sentencing documents.
“Hundreds of people were standing in the vicinity of the police cars that Channon burned, some only a few feet away,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg wrote, according to the paper. “All of them were in harm’s way if one of the vehicles had exploded.”
Channon has agreed to pay restoration for the destroyed cars as a component of an appeal agreement, the Times said.
The following is actually a report that aired following Channon’s apprehension in 2020:
(H/T: Warm Air)
