PHILADELPHIA (AP) A woman who pleaded guilty to setting fire to police cars amid the 2020 racial justice protests in Philadelphia has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison.
PHILADELPHIA — A woman who pleaded guilty to setting fire to police cars amid the 2020 racial justice protests in Philadelphia has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that since 35-year-old Lore-Elizabeth Blumenthal of Jenkintown has been in custody since her arrest two
PHILADELPHIA — A woman who admitted torching police cars amid the 2020 racial injustice protests that roiled Philadelphia was sentenced to 21/2 years in federal prison on Thursday, the stiffest sentence yet in a case against the six demonstrators who have been charged with similar crimes. But because she has
Lore Blumenthal, 35, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $95,000 restitution for lighting two Philadelphia police vehicles on fire during a protest outside City Hall on May 30, 2022. The civil unrest followed the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis. Blumenthal was one of six people charged with similar crimes. She's been detained since her arrest in June 2020 and pleaded guilty in March to federal counts of obstructing law enforcement during a civil disorder.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) The first of six people charged with setting fire to police vehicles in Philadelphia during the 2020 protests after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police has been sentenced.