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Carlos A. Matchett

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'Burn This (Expletive) Down!': Atlantic City Man's Posts Urged Violence Against Police 'Burn This (Expletive) Down!': Atlantic City Man's Posts Urged Violence Against Police
'Burn This (Expletive) Down!': Atlantic City Man's Posts Urged Violence Against Police Carlos A. Matchett of Atlantic City kept furiously posting messages on Facebook for days urging violence against police – right up until FBI agents arrested him on rioting charges Wednesday. “LET’S START A RIOT” Matchett, 30, wrote in one. “Burn This M*****f****r Downnn!!!” read another. Matchett also shared a post that said, in part: “The point of a riot isn’t to solve anything. The point is to f**k sh*t up since nothing could be solved to begin with.” Then came the so-called smoking gun: A cellphone video that federal authorities said showed him helping people loot goods from smashed …

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by Jerry DeMarco