A Black Lives Matter (BLM) rioter was sentenced to ten years in federal prison for burning down a Minneapolis pawn shop during the George Floyd riots in May 2020. Sentencing guidelines suggested a sentence of nearly double that, but Biden’s Justice Department recommends a lesser sentence because the rioter committed his crime in the name of BLM. According to a memo from the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Minnesota, even though the rioter “committed a crime that cost a man his life,” his motives for committing the crime merited a lesser sentence.