A BLM leader from Charleston, SC has been sentenced to 18 months for setting fire to a police car and assaulting police officers.
According to ABC News 4, Judge Bentley Price sentenced Abraham Jenkins to eighteen months of state prison for charges of "third-degree arson, second-degree assault and battery, and malicious property damage."
"Jenkins also took a burning t-shirt and threw it through a broken back window of a Charleston Police cruiser, causing damage to the cruiser," another local outlet claims.
This stemming from the actions taken by Jenkins in May 2020 after mass unrest reacting to the death of George Floyd.
A #BLM leader in Charleston, SC who rioted multiple times in 2020 has been sentenced to 18 months in state prison for setting fire to a police vehicle & battering officers. Abraham Jenkins was also federally sentenced last year to 18 months in federal prison for rioting & arson. pic.twitter.com/wzU4LtWmnD
— Andy Ngô ???? (@MrAndyNgo) January 13, 2022
Jenkins was previously sentenced to 18 months in federal prison over charges stemming from the Charleston riots in May 2020. In that instance he faced charges of arson and civil disorder. Local reporting from the time shows evidence of Jenkins standing on a police vehicle and damaging the car, along assaulting law enforcement with a fire extinguisher.
26-year-old Abraham Jenkins, seen here jumping on a Mt Pleasant Police car on May 30, 2020, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to civil disorders for his role in the Charleston riots. #chsnews @Live5News pic.twitter.com/QUJKGtMxTC
— Thomas Gruel (@thomasdgruel) July 8, 2021
"While the Charleston Police Department will always support our citizen’s right to peaceful protest, we will never condone violent or destructive acts that endanger our citizens or damage property," said Charleston Police Chief Luther Reynolds back at the July 2021 sentencing.
Jenkins was permitted to face legal ramifications from both the state and at a federal level because of the "separate sovereigns" doctrine upheld by SCOTUS in Gamble vs the United States in 2019.
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