SEATTLE, Wash. – A Seattle man has been sentenced to five years in prison for helping to set a police cruiser on fire and stealing a rifle from another police car during a May 2020 riot in downtown Seattle.
A U.S. District Judge Richard Jones told Tyre Wayne Means Jr. at his sentencing that his conduct was “reckless, destructive and extremely dangerous to those who were there for peaceful protest.”
Means was captured on video lighting a paper towel and putting it in a patrol car while others poured accelerants on the flames, setting the car ablaze.
He also reached into another patrol car and pulled out a rifle bag.
The weapon was recovered.