#Lawyer charged with tossing Molotov cocktail at NYPD van pleads not guilty

The Brooklyn lawyer federally charged with tossing a Molotov cocktail into an empty NYPD vehicle during George Floyd protests in the Big Apple pleaded not guilty to all charges Monday.

Urooj Rahman, 31, who was previously ordered held at the Metropolitan Detention Center, entered the plea through her lawyer Paul Shechtman via a teleconference arraignment with Brooklyn federal Magistrate Judge Cheryl Pollack.

During the brief phone call, throngs of supporters of Rahman flooded the line, at times making it hard for the judge and court reporter to hear.

“Love you, Rooj – stay strong!” one supporter shouted before the proceeding officially began, while another yelled, “Keep your head up, Urooj.”

“Love you, Aunt Roojie,” another said.

Rahman, a Fordham University School of Law graduate, then responded, “Love you guys, too.”

At the end of the proceeding, supporters and relatives who shouted, “We love you” and Rahman remained on the line for several minutes before the conference call ended.

“Thank you for all your support,” Rahman, speaking from the detention center, could be heard saying, along with, “I love you, mom.”

Rahman, along with fellow lawyer Colinford Mattis, face 20 years in prison on seven counts charging them with use of explosives, arson, using an explosive to commit a felony, arson conspiracy, use of a destructive device, civil disorder and possessing and making a destructive device in the alleged May 30 attack in Brooklyn.

Rahman allegedly tossed the explosive device into a cop car while the pair were driving around Brooklyn on May 29 into May 30 during a tense confrontation between police and demonstrators near the 88th Precinct station house in Fort Greene.

Mattis, 32, a graduate of Princeton University and the New York University School of Law, was allegedly behind the wheel of the minivan they were in when Rahman allegedly hurled the cocktail.

Rahman, who was photographed in the vehicle holding an unlit Bud Light bottle bomb while covering her face with a scarf, was caught on surveillance video setting the cop car ablaze, prosecutors have said.

No one was hurt during the incident amid the protests sparked by the Minneapolis police killing of Floyd – and Rahman and Mattis were quickly nabbed by cops.

Mattis pleaded not guilty last week for his alleged role in the incident.

He is also being held without bail at the MDC.