Conservatively Speaking : She Burned Five Cop Cars During A BLM Riot, And She Has Just Learned Her Fate….

A woman who torched five Seattle police cars during a tumultuous protest that heralded a summer of unrest after George Floyd’s murder in 2020 finally learned her fate.

She will spend the next five years in prison.

26-year-old Margaret Channon of Tacoma used an aerosol can and a lighter as a makeshift flame-thrower to burn the unoccupied, parked police vehicles in downtown Seattle on May 30, soon after officers sprayed tear gas to disperse a massive crowd. For 25 minutes she ran back and forth between the cars, adding fire as necessary to destroy them.

She was arrested on June 11, 2020, as part of a joint investigation by the FBI, ATF, and SPD. Then, in September of 2021, Channon pleaded guilty to arson charges in U.S. District Court, and as a result, now faces five years in federal prison.

While the maximum sentence for arson is 20 years, Channon and prosecutors agreed to the mandatory minimum of five years as part of a recommendation to the judge overseeing the case.

Ultimately, federal officials described Channon’s crimes as “an attack on democracy.”

“The right to protest, gather, and call out injustices is one of the dearest and most important rights we enjoy in the United States,” U.S. Attorney Nick Brown said in a press release. “Indeed, our democracy depends on both exercising and protecting these rights. … She used the cover of lawful protests to carry out dangerous and destructive acts, risking the safety of everyone around her and undermining the important messages voiced by others.”

Channon’s criminal activity wasn’t limited to arson, prosecutors said. The video also captured her entering stores and stealing clothing.

According to DOJ’s press statement, Channon admitted to smashing the window at the Verizon Store and destroying the electronic cash register at a sandwich shop.

According to AWM:

Channon’s mother, Elizabeth MacGahan, also came to the young white woman’s defense by writing a letter to the court. She claimed that Channon comes from a family with a commitment to civil service. She also said that the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter protests, and the recent deaths of her two grandmothers might have contributed to the young woman’s violence.
“It’s a very difficult time to be young and sensitive and to suffer losses,” she said.
“I apologize to the many workers and activists – who have given decades of their lives to building a countermeasure to police violence – that did not want to see fire,” Channon wrote. “I had intended to effect positive change, but my attempt was misguided.”

Channon was identified after the civil unrest because of high-quality images taken during the rampage. Investigators were able to identify her with a unique tattoo on her hand.
“She had the letters’ W-A-I-F’ tattooed on the fingers of her left hand… The letters were oriented such that the bottom of the letters faced towards her fingertips,” an indictment from 2020 reads.