Men could face terrorism-related and weapons charges after officials say explosive ‘had been lit but failed to function’
Authorities in Utah say two men have been arrested on suspicion of placing an incendiary device under a news media vehicle in Salt Lake City. The bomb didn’t go off.
Police and fire department bomb squads responded on Friday when a suspicious device was found under the vehicle parked near an occupied building.
Investigators determined the bomb “had been lit but failed to function as designed”, according to court records cited by CBS affiliate KUTV.
“Had been lit”, was it like a stick of dynamite?
What’s going on in Utah?
Just the usual right wing terrorism.
American stochastic terrorism
Yep, we’re starting to see the results of 40+ years of very dark, very violent propaganda
Just your normal religious and political oppression.
Average day in Utah, and every other Red state.
Wait, Jason Segal was in SLC Punk? I’ve only seen it once, way back in highschool and I must not have known who he was back then. Huh.
Johnny Harris just did a video about his time as a Mormon and how rich the church is
Nothing has changed.
too much SALT lakes.
Geee, it’s almost as if Republicans are violent and hateful.
Not saying I disagree with the statement, but where did you see that these men were Republicans? I didn’t find any reference to any political motivation in the article, but I also didn’t read it particularly thoroughly
If they were left leaning in any way they would have led with that.
Sometimes they lead with that even if it’s not true.
Not Republican, MAGA. Republicans don’t exist anymore. And we know they were MAGA, because the bomb didn’t go off, because MAGAs are predictably virtuosically incompetent. If they were Democrats, the bomb would have worked.
Also Republicans are too cowardly to try to bomb anything. MAGAs are cowardly, too, but the are also breath-takingly stupid, so their stupidity often overwhelms their cowardice, and they do remarkably dumb stuff, like try to storm the Capitol.
I didn’t find any reference to any political motivation
I didn’t either, but that probably implies they are white christofacists, right? (Or, as the Utah governor put it, “one of us”?)
If their demographic was any different and fit the narratives that the Right is trying to spin on this, it would have been leaked already…
The Utah governor used “one of us” to mean a member of their local community.
I get why it’s such a fun sound bite but it comes across as dumb as the right yelling let’s go Brandon
It’s probably best not to make assumptions before we know for sure.
Same as the motivations behind Charlie Kirk’s shooter should not have been assumed to have been either left or right until we know for sure.
It’s probably best not to make assumptions before we know for sure.
Right, but we can make educated deductions based on what we know. I tend to agree that (as with the case with Kirk’s killer), if any politics left of center were involved, we likely would have heard about it already.
You’re correct, but you are also assuming the media is honest. If I am correct in my assumption that the media (or, at least the mega corporations that own them) are carefully curating favor with the administration, then if these people were “on the right” we’ll be told that they are “on the left” anyway.
You are correct, but I will say, their fascist in chief has been demonizing the media, and the right has a track record of domestic terrorism, so while it is possible they were progressive people, chances are they were conservatives
But they are so “pro-life”.
Charlie Kirk was pro life. He died pretty damned quick.
Pro-birth.
Not even that. If they were pro-birth, they’d at least be in favor of easy access to prenatal healthcare. But they’re always opposed to that, too.
They’re just pro-pregnancy. They don’t give a shit if a woman’s pregnancy is viable or not, let alone whether carrying the fetus to term will kill the woman or not.
Anti-choice is most appropriate. They don’t care if a woman becomes pregnant as long as the woman is subservient.
They ran off with a rhetoric without any facts first, showed everyone how violent they want to be, the facts now show that their rhetoric was ignorant bullshit, they still want to be violent anyway so they’re going to do it in the name of their original rhetoric, facts be damned. They are just violent psychopaths. Stay strapped with that scum walking amongst us
And incompetent.
Hmmm I sure wonder which side these two guys belonged to…
Definitely liberal democratic socialists. Definitely.
They probably have pro-trans ideologies
Most probably even worse: Anti-car ideologies, even trying to destroy a car
I heard they spray painted a fighter jet 😨😨😨
What was the bomb wearing?
I recommend watching “murder among the Mormons” on Netflix.
