Our Justice Department is now in the hands of the left, and it’s one of the first things that needs to be rectified when Joe Biden is booted out by the voters in 2024 because the things they are doing now are just against the American people.

Warning: text below contains coarse language.

There could be no greater example of this than the approach that the DOJ took to the sentencing of Montez Terriel Lee. According to the prosecutors, Lee broke into a pawn shop during the BLM riots in Minneapolis on May 28, 2020, and set fire to the building, destroying the business. They had a video of him pouring the accelerant and saying, “F**k this place, we’re going to burn this b**ch down!” He was also captured on video raising a fist there, as well as discussing what other places they could “hit” next. The police later found the body of Oscar Stewart in the building; He was killed by the fire. Stewart had five children. Lee pled guilty to one count of arson.

As the prosecutors themselves admit in their sentencing memo, the guidelines would suggest a sentence of 235-240 months (19.5 to 20 years). Lee had prior convictions for burglary, assault, violation of no-contact order, and theft of property, including assaulting a woman and rupturing her eardrum. Yet the longest sentence he had ever previously received, according to the prosecutors, was 60 days.

Black Lives Matter rioter Montez Terriel Lee Jr.was sentenced to 10 yrs in federal prison for his role in burning down a Minneapolis pawn shop during George Floyd riots in May 2020.

He admitted to starting the fire. #MorningJoe pic.twitter.com/LYBmg6TN1N

— Popitics (@Popitics1) February 9, 2022

But, the Biden DOJ recommended instead that he get a sentence of only 144 months, or 12 years.

Why? The reason is infuriating.

There appear also to have been many people who felt angry, frustrated, and disenfranchised, and who were attempting, in many cases in an unacceptably reckless and dangerous manner, to give voice to those feelings. Mr. Lee appears to be squarely in this latter category. And even the great American advocate for non-violence and social justice, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stated in an interview with CBC’s Mike Wallace in 1966 that “we’ve got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard.” [….]

Mr. Lee was terribly misguided, and his actions had tragic, unthinkable consequences. But he appears to have believed that he was, in Dr. King’s eloquent words, engaging in ‘the language of the unheard.’

They counted the raising of the fist in Lee’s favor, claiming that showed that he didn’t do it for “personal gain,” such as money. But, radical political gain is cool for the Biden Administration and counts as a positive. They gave him credit for admitting he set the fire, but he also formally objected to any responsibility for Stewart’s death.

While they acknowledged destruction from the riots, the DOJ memo also used CNN/MSNBC language trying to justify the protests, describing them as “mostly peaceful.”

Then even though they recommended a sentence that was eight years fewer than what the guidelines suggested, the judge, U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina Wright gave him only 10 years, with three years of supervised release. Wright is one of the people considered to be on Biden’s list for SCOTUS to replace Justice Stephen Breyer.

This is incredible, and one has to wonder how many other people they are applying this same argument to reduce their sentences because they are cool with radical politics. We saw that during the riots, 13 Biden staffers and Kamala Harris herself contributed to a bail fund to help get out people who were arrested during the riots in Minneapolis. Harris even promoted it on Twitter.

If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota. https://t.co/t8LXowKIbw

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 1, 2020

House Republicans are now pressing the DOJ to explain what is going on here. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) sent a letter to the DOJ demanding answers and to know everyone who was involved in this, including if any authorities in Washington were consulted on this.

“It would appear that Mr. Lee is enjoying the benefits of kid-gloved, preferential treatment in this case because he committed violence in furtherance of the preferred political views of your office and the current administration,” Roy wrote in a letter first obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. It is addressed to W. Anders Folk, who served as Minnesota’s top federal prosecutor until November, when he was promoted to a post in Washington, D.C. [….]

“The document reads as if it were written by the defendant’s counsel rather than the prosecuting attorney,” Roy’s letter reads.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) also demanded that AG Merrick Garland “provide all communications between the United States Attorney’s Office for Minnesota and any political appointees at the Department of Justice regarding the sentencing recommendation for Montez Lee.”

Showing leniency towards a career criminal who committed murder is bad enough. But justifying the murder because the career criminal shares the Biden Administration’s politics is beyond the pale. The American people deserve to know whether leniency for left-wing murderers is the official policy of the Biden Department of Justice, or whether this travesty was a one-off.”

This is just shameful and shows the Biden DOJ is more concerned about serving a political agenda than about what they’re supposed to be focused on: serving the American people.