The Black Revolutionary Assault Team (BRAT) was a small terrorist group that carried out a few bombings in New York City during 1971.

[4] Shortly after the blasts the United Press International received a telephone message: The Black Revolutionary Assault Team has just bombed the Congo mission.

[4] Minutes before the Congo bomb exploded Larry Pearson, an eighteen-year-old black Louis Brandeis High School student rushed into a taxi operated by Marvin Ellias.

The cab driver alerted his dispatcher through his car radio and then drove around until he found a traffic cop who arrested Pearson.

After more than five hours of questioning, Pearson was charged with arson, possession of a bomb and a loaded weapon, and criminal mischief, and held on $50,000 bond.