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Michael Robert Solomon, 31, drew the attention of the FBI when he and his co-defendant Benjamin Ryan Teeter, 23, of Hampstead, North Carolina, showed up heavily armed at protests that followed the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.

Michael Robert Solomon, 31, drew the attention of the FBI when he and his co-defendant Benjamin Ryan Teeter, 23, of Hampstead, North Carolina, showed up heavily armed at protests that followed the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.

Michael Robert Solomon, 31, drew the attention of the FBI when he and his co-defendant Benjamin Ryan Teeter, 23, of Hampstead, North Carolina, showed up heavily armed at protests that followed the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.

Michael Robert Solomon, 31, drew the attention of the FBI when he and his co-defendant Benjamin Ryan Teeter, 23, of Hampstead, North Carolina, showed up heavily armed at protests that followed the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.

Michael Robert Solomon, 31, drew the attention of the FBI when he and his co-defendant Benjamin Ryan Teeter, 23, of Hampstead, North Carolina, showed up heavily armed at protests that followed the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.

Michael Robert Solomon, 31, drew the attention of the FBI when he and his co-defendant Benjamin Ryan Teeter, 23, of Hampstead, North Carolina, showed up heavily armed at protests that followed the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.

Michael Robert Solomon, 31, drew the attention of the FBI when he and his co-defendant Benjamin Ryan Teeter, 23, of Hampstead, North Carolina, showed up heavily armed at protests that followed the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.

The perpetrator, Montez Terriel Lee, Jr., set a pawn shop on fire during the 2020 riots in Minneapolis; that fire killed a father of five whose body was later discovered in the rubble.

WASHINGTON—On Thursday, Rep. Chip Roy (TX-21) demanded DOJ and the former Acting United States Attorney for Minnesota justify giving a career criminal an abnormally lenient sentence for setting a lethal fire. The perpetrator, Montez Terriel Lee, Jr., set a pawn shop on fire during the 2020 riots in Minneapolis; that fire killed a father of five whose body was later discovered

Rep. Chip Roy is demanding answers on how a man found guilty of setting a fire during the George Floyd riots that led to the death of a father of five was given a soft sentence.