A convicted felon has been charged by federal prosecutors with possessing a Molotov cocktail at a Florida George Floyd protest. The charges stem from Ivan Jacob Zecher’s arrest by Jacksonville police on May 31 after a peaceful protest in downtown Jacksonville turned violent, the Florida Times-Union reported Monday. He was charged Monday in federal court with possessing a firearm as a felon and possessing an unregistered firearm, Jacksonville U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez said. A subsequent search of his backpack “revealed a liquor bottle that smelled strongly of gasoline, a lighter, and a hatchet,” she said. A woman who said she was Zecher’s fiancée told Fox 30 Jacksonville that Zecher was a “pillar” of his family.

Source: Fox News June 09, 2020 16:07 UTC