Man who shot fireworks, threw rocks at officers in Downtown protest
gets prison sentence
A rioter who fired commercial-grade fireworks into a group of Columbus
police officers during a racial-injustice protest Downtown last year
was sentenced Tuesday afternoon to at least eight years in prison.
Brandon L. Pack, 26, of the South Side pleaded guilty in September to
three counts of felonious assault and one count each of aggravated
rioting, vandalism and breaking and entering.
The sentence, the most serious penalty given to anyone charged with
criminal behavior during a spring and summer of protests, was imposed
by Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Kimberly Cocroft.
Pack was among hundreds of people who converged Downtown on the night
of May 28, 2020, primarily around Broad and High streets, to protest
the murder of George Floyd Jr. three days earlier at the hands of
Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/courts/2021/11/30/fireworks-injuries-columbus-officers-leads-prison-rioter/8813124002/?
Good thing equal justice.