PHILADELPHIA — A woman who admitted torching police cars amid the 2020 racial injustice protests that roiled Philadelphia was sentenced to 21/2 years in federal prison on Thursday, the stiffest sentence yet in a case against the six demonstrators who have been charged with similar crimes.
But because she has been held in custody since her arrest two years ago, Lore-Elisabeth Blumenthal, 35, could be released in a matter of months.
As he announced her sentence Thursday, U.S. District Judge Barclay Surrick said Blumenthal had already endured significant punishment in the 25 months she’d already spent behind bars, and he was convinced that she had learned from her crimes.
