Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) sent an inquiry to US Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding answers regarding the lenient prison sentencing of a man convicted of burning down a pawn shop in Minneapolis, killing a 30-year-old man inside during the 2020 riots in response to George Floyd’s murder.26-year-old Montez Terriel Lee, of Rochester, Minnesota, was sentenced in January to 10 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for setting fire to the Max It Pawn Shop on East Lake Street in Minneapolis on May 28, 2020, according to the Minnesota US Attorney’s Office.Lee was caught on surveillance camera pouring fire accelerant around the shop before igniting it. As the building is destroyed, a second video recorded Lee in front of the shop saying “[expletive] this place. We’re gonna burn this [expletive] down,” prosecutors said.
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