Thread by @keikoinboston, 1. Imagine spending years of your life to become a lawyer and [...]

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1. Imagine spending years of your life to become a lawyer and then throwing it all away for this.

The driver went to Princeton for undergrad then NYU School of Law. The thrower went to Fordham University School of Law. https://twitter.com/lawdotcom/status/1267166515566182404

https://twitter.com/lawdotcom/status/1267166515566182404

2. The driver, Colinford Mattis, was a corporate attorney specializing in "Mergers + Acquisitions" and "Securities + Corporate Finance" according to his firm's website. His bio was taken down sometime in the past few hours.

https://www.pryorcashman.com/lawyers/colinford-k-mattis.html
http://archive.is/ctidk

3. The Molotov cocktail thrower, Urooj Rahman, was a staff writer for Rights Wire, the human rights blog of the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham.
https://rightswireblog.org/?s=Urooj+Rahman
http://archive.is/JYCy7

4. While in law school, Rahman co-authored a report published in May 2014 titled “Changing the NYPD: A Progressive Blueprint for Sweeping Reform". (Link for pdf below.)

http://www.leitnercenter.org/news/120/
https://archive.vn/0In8y

http://www.policereformorganizingproject.org/prop-reports/
http://web.archive.org/web/20200601001410/http://www.policereformorganizingproject.org/prop-reports/

5. Direct link to download pdf of “Changing the NYPD: A Progressive Blueprint for Sweeping Reform”.

http://www.policereformorganizingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/A-Blueprint-for-NYPD-Reform.pdf

Archive of pdf: http://web.archive.org/web/20141216082928/http://www.policereformorganizingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/A-Blueprint-for-NYPD-Reform.pdf

6. The report was a joint project between the Walter Leitner International Human Rights Clinic that Rahman took part in & Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP) a fiscally-sponsored project of United Social Services, Inc.

http://www.leitnercenter.org/programs/WLIHRC/ https://archive.vn/YVrDF

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http://www.leitnercenter.org/programs/WLIHRC/

7. People who are radicalized to commit violence are often portrayed as disenfranchised, unintelligent, people with little opportunity.

8. And while extremist organizers do target people with these characteristics, whatever Mattis & Rahman’s backgrounds, they were given every opportunity to succeed in life.

9. Some people are going to say that this is the natural outcome to radical left politics, to critical race theory, to intersectionality, etc.

But Mattis & Rahman are still (currently) outliers. Their recent actions don’t represent what the majority of progressives want.

10. I do think that this should serve as a warning to the left that this is what can happen when you drive your politics off a cliff or in this case, in a van to Brooklyn to bomb the NYPD.

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