A Rochester man who helped rioters torch a city police car is going to prison for 16 months. Prosecutors say 21-year-old Miguel Ramos will also pay the city more than $4,000 in restitution.
Ramos was one of several people who set the police car on fire in May of 2020, when a protest against the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis degenerated into a riot outside Rochester’s Public Safety Building. There was vandalism, looting and fires set.
During the rioting, Ramos and several other people set fire to a city police car parked across the street from the PSB, then shot pictures and posted video of the burning car to social media.