A 26-year-old Tacoma woman was sentenced Tuesday for setting five Seattle Police Department cars on fire during the protests in downtown Seattle in May 2020 after the death of George Floyd. FOX13
The United States Attorney’s Office for Western the District of Washington announced in a release that Margaret Aislinn Channon was sentenced to five years in prison. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced a 5 p.m. curfew for the entire city Saturday and Washingon Gov. Jay Inslee activated the National Guard after rioters torched police vehicles and spilled onto Interstate 5, forcing the freeway’s temporary closure through the central part of the Northwest’s largest city.
Investigators said Channon was arrested June 11, 2020 following an investigation by the FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Seattle Police Department. Prosecutors noted in their sentencing memo, "hundreds of people were standing in the vicinity of the police cars that Channon burned, some only a few feet away. All of them were in harm’s way if one of the vehicles had exploded."
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