Micah Tillmon, 20, of West Hills faces up to 10 years in prison for burning a Santa Monica restaurant last year.
A San Fernando Valley man on Thursday admitted he set a Santa Monica restaurant on fire during a period of social unrest last year and pleaded guilty to a federal criminal charge stemming from the incident.
The downtown Santa Monica restaurant and other businesses in the area had closed for the day in anticipation that looters and vandals would use protests over a Minneapolis police officer’s killing of George Floyd as cover to wreak havoc.on protesters with rubber bullets and tear gas as looters broke into businesses.
Carel Ale, an attorney from the federal public defender’s office who represented Tillmon, declined to comment.
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