Biden DOJ Recommended Reduced Sentence for BLM Arson Killer for Incredible Reason – Opinion

Our Justice Department is now in the hands of the left, and it’s one of the first things that needs to be rectified when Joe Biden is booted out by the voters in 2024 because the things they are doing now are just against the American people.

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The DOJ approach taken to Montez Terriel’s sentencing was a prime example. The prosecutors claim that Lee entered a Pawn Shop during the BLM Riots in Minneapolis, May 28, 2020 and set fire to it, completely destroying the establishment. They had a video of him pouring the accelerant and saying, “F**k this place, we’re going to burn this b**ch down!” He was also captured on video raising a fist there, as well as discussing what other places they could “hit” next. Oscar Stewart’s body was later discovered by police in the burning building. Stewart had five children. Lee plead guilty to arson.

The sentencing memo admits that the guidelines recommend a sentence between 235 to 240 months (19.5 and 20 years), as the prosecutors have admitted. Lee has previous convictions for assault, burglary and violation of no-contact orders. According to the prosecutors though, the maximum sentence Lee had received was only 60 days.

Black Lives Matter rioter Montez Terriel Lee Jr. was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. He was responsible for the destruction of a Minneapolis Pawn Shop during the George Floyd Riots in May 2020.

He acknowledged that he started the fire. #MorningJoe pic.twitter.com/LYBmg6TN1N

— Popitics (@Popitics1) February 9, 2022

The Biden DOJ suggested that instead of a sentence for 144 months or 12 years, he receive a sentence of 144 months.

Why? This is why it’s so frustrating.

Many people felt anger, frustration, and disenfranchised. They tried, often in an unacceptable reckless and dangerous fashion, to voice their emotions. This is exactly what Mr. Lee seems to have been. And even the great American advocate for non-violence and social justice, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stated in an interview with CBC’s Mike Wallace in 1966 that “we’ve got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard.” [….]

His actions led to tragic and unimaginable outcomes. But he appears to have believed that he was, in Dr. King’s eloquent words, engaging in ‘the language of the unheard.’

They counted the raising of the fist in Lee’s favor, claiming that showed that he didn’t do it for “personal gain,” such as money. Radical political gain, however, is cool to the Biden Administration. It counts as a plus. They gave him credit for admitting he set the fire, but he also formally objected to any responsibility for Stewart’s death.

While they acknowledged destruction from the riots, the DOJ memo also used CNN/MSNBC language trying to justify the protests, describing them as “mostly peaceful.”

The guidelines called for a sentence of eight years. However, U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina W. Wright gave Wright only 10 year sentences with three years of supervised freedom. Wright is one of the people considered to be on Biden’s list for SCOTUS to replace Justice Stephen Breyer.

It is amazing, and it makes one wonder just how many others are using the same argument to lower their sentences for being cool with radical politics. We also saw 13 Biden staffers, Kamala Harris and others contributing to the bail fund that was established to assist those who were detained during the Minneapolis riots. Harris even promoted it via Twitter.

If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFundTo help pay bail to protestors on the ground of Minnesota. https://t.co/t8LXowKIbw

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 1, 2020

House Republicans now want the DOJ’s explanation. Rep. Chip Roy (Republican from Texas) wrote to the DOJ asking for information and to get to know all those involved, as well as if Washington authorities were consulted.

“It would appear that Mr. Lee is enjoying the benefits of kid-gloved, preferential treatment in this case because he committed violence in furtherance of the preferred political views of your office and the current administration,” Roy wrote in a letter first obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. It is addressed to W. Anders Folk, who served as Minnesota’s top federal prosecutor until November, when he was promoted to a post in Washington, D.C. [….]

“The document reads as if it were written by the defendant’s counsel rather than the prosecuting attorney,” Roy’s letter reads.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) also demanded that AG Merrick Garland “provide all communications between the United States Attorney’s Office for Minnesota and any political appointees at the Department of Justice regarding the sentencing recommendation for Montez Lee.”

It is not right to show leniency toward a career criminal for murder. But justifying the murder because the career criminal shares the Biden Administration’s politics is beyond the pale. The American people deserve to know whether leniency for left-wing murderers is the official policy of the Biden Department of Justice, or whether this travesty was a one-off.”

This is just shameful and shows the Biden DOJ is more concerned about serving a political agenda than about what they’re supposed to be focused on: serving the American people.