Rocky_Shorz
8th January 2015, 04:29
News Flash...
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someone is still stirring the pot...
"FBI agents are seeking a middle-aged white man in connection with an explosion outside the office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Colorado. The agency thinks it might be a hate crime or an act of domestic terrorism.
The NAACP office in Colorado Springs shook Tuesday morning when an improvised explosive device (IED) was detonated just outside. Two NAACP volunteers were inside the office at the time, but there were no injuries. Some items were knocked off the walls.
FBI agents and local law enforcement officials are now seeking a middle-aged, balding white man as a person of interest. He was seen leaving the area at the time of the bombing and may have been driving “a 2000 or older model dirty, white pickup truck with paneling” and “a missing or covered license plate.”
“It is certainly a possibility of being a hate crime or domestic terrorism, however we are exploring all possibilities of potential motive,” said Amy Sanders, FBI spokeswoman in Denver, to The Colorado Springs Gazette..." link (http://www.dailyrapid.com/2015/01/bombing-naacps-colorado-office-might-domestic-terrorism-fbi/)
Sharing the building with the NAACP is Mr. G’s Hair Design Studio, whose owner Gene Southerland told the Gazette that he went outside after the explosion and saw a large gas can and what looked like a chunk of dynamite. The gas can could hold five gallons and it felt full. He said police later told him the device was a pipe bomb with a flare rigged to ignite the gas can.
FBI spokeswoman Sanders was unable to say what kind of damage could have been caused had the gas can exploded, as that information is part of the ongoing investigation.
In a tweet late Tuesday night, Cornell Brooks, president of the NAACP, said: “Thankfully no one was hurt in a suspicious explosion at our Colorado Spring #NAACP office. We remain vigilant.”
The president of the NAACP Colorado Springs chapter, Henry Allen Jr., vowed to continue fighting for civil rights..."
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will fill with articles as I find more...
someone is still stirring the pot...
"FBI agents are seeking a middle-aged white man in connection with an explosion outside the office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Colorado. The agency thinks it might be a hate crime or an act of domestic terrorism.
The NAACP office in Colorado Springs shook Tuesday morning when an improvised explosive device (IED) was detonated just outside. Two NAACP volunteers were inside the office at the time, but there were no injuries. Some items were knocked off the walls.
FBI agents and local law enforcement officials are now seeking a middle-aged, balding white man as a person of interest. He was seen leaving the area at the time of the bombing and may have been driving “a 2000 or older model dirty, white pickup truck with paneling” and “a missing or covered license plate.”
“It is certainly a possibility of being a hate crime or domestic terrorism, however we are exploring all possibilities of potential motive,” said Amy Sanders, FBI spokeswoman in Denver, to The Colorado Springs Gazette..." link (http://www.dailyrapid.com/2015/01/bombing-naacps-colorado-office-might-domestic-terrorism-fbi/)
Sharing the building with the NAACP is Mr. G’s Hair Design Studio, whose owner Gene Southerland told the Gazette that he went outside after the explosion and saw a large gas can and what looked like a chunk of dynamite. The gas can could hold five gallons and it felt full. He said police later told him the device was a pipe bomb with a flare rigged to ignite the gas can.
FBI spokeswoman Sanders was unable to say what kind of damage could have been caused had the gas can exploded, as that information is part of the ongoing investigation.
In a tweet late Tuesday night, Cornell Brooks, president of the NAACP, said: “Thankfully no one was hurt in a suspicious explosion at our Colorado Spring #NAACP office. We remain vigilant.”
The president of the NAACP Colorado Springs chapter, Henry Allen Jr., vowed to continue fighting for civil rights..."