Hello and welcome to the Byron York Show, the no-chit chat podcast.

We like to get right into it, and what we're going to get into today is an exploration

of what a lot of people call a two-tiered system of justice.

And it revolves around a phrase, perhaps you've heard it, perhaps you haven't, a phrase

that is, a riot is the language of the unheard.

And that phrase came from Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1966, and it plays a role in this

podcast, so that's a little preview there.

But let's start.

Let's start on February 7th of last year, 2022.

Tom Cotton, he's the Republican Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote a letter

to the Attorney General, Merrick Garland.

And the letter was about the case of a man named Montez Lee.

He was a man from Rochester, Minnesota, and he had been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Why?

Well, because he set a fire, he's an arsonist, he set a fire, that killed a man during

the Black Lives Matter riot in Minneapolis.

And this is a little bit of the background of that case.

It was May 28th, 2020.

You remember it was a pretty terrible time, a lot of riots going on.

And then a pawn shop in Minneapolis and Montez Lee and some others broke into the shop.

And there's a video, because fortunately for law enforcement, criminals often take video

of themselves.

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