CHICAGO (AP) — A suburban Chicago man who admitted throwing an explosive at police during a violent demonstration in June 2020 has been sentenced to one year in federal prison.
Twenty-one-year-old Christian Rea of Aurora pleaded guilty last year to obstructing law enforcement when he threw a lit incendiary device at a line of uniformed police officers, injuring several of them.
The Chicago Tribune reports U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin also ordered Rea to pay $13,585 in restitution Wednesday to the city of Naperville.
Officers injured by the device said they suffered from repeated headaches, ringing in the ears and vision loss, prosecutors said.
