RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina man has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for attempting to set fire to a marked police car in Raleigh after a protest against the death of George Floyd.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina said in a news release on Monday that Jabari Devon Davis got a prison sentence of 30 months.
Federal authorities said that he was charged in June with one count of attempting to damage or destroy by fire a vehicle owned or possessed by an institution receiving federal financial assistance. He entered a guilty plea in October.
Federal authorities said the vehicle was set ablaze in the early morning hours of May 31. Investigators found a charred sock and a bottle with the odor of gasoline on the sidewalk nearby. Authorities said that a fingerprint lifted from the bottle belonged to Davis.
Authorities said Davis admitted to setting the vehicle on fire.
An attorney listed for Davis in court documents, William F. Finn , Jr., declined to comment in an email.
The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody in late May had sparked protests in cities across the U.S. and led to a national reckoning on racial justice.
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