Teen who smashed traffic cone through car window during 2015 unrest returns to prison for violating probation

Allen Bullock, the young man who smashed an orange traffic cone through a car windshield in what became one of the indelible images of the 2015 Baltimore unrest, has received a four-year sentence for violating his probation on the riot charge.

Bullock, now 20, violated his probation when he failed to make court appearances, meet with his probation officer and notify the officer that his address had changed, according to a court recording of the proceeding.

Bullock, who was arrested June 5 on a warrant, explained the reasons for his missed appearances and meetings in court Tuesday.

"Since my mother put me out, I was just coming from the system so I ain't really have no transportation, no family, no way to call or nothing," Bullock told Baltimore Circuit Judge Charles J. Peters.

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