Monday, March 19, 2018

Terrorism in Austin

They won't call it that, of course. At least not until the find the bomber(s) and they turn out to be Muslims.

Residents of a southwest Austin neighborhood were told to stay inside early Monday after a fourth explosion in less than a month hit Texas' capital, injuring two men and stoking fears in a city already on edge.

The latest blast occurred Sunday just after 8:30 p.m. local time (9:30 p.m. ET). Two bicyclists who are believed to be in their 20s sustained injuries that were not life-threatening, officials said.

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“We will not be able to send school buses into the neighborhood on Monday,” he said. “In addition to that, we're going to ask the residents in the Travis County neighborhood to stay in your homes tomorrow morning and give us the opportunity to process the scene once the sun comes up.”

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Police are working under the belief that the incident Sunday is related to a string of unsolved package bombings this month that killed two and injured two others, though a link has not yet been confirmed.
  NBC
It seems like it might not be directly connected, in the sense that it didn't specifically target a person of color.
Stephen House, 39, was killed on the morning of March 2, and Draylen Mason, 17, died on the morning of March 12. Both were black members of the same church, Nelson Linder, the local NAACP chapter president, told NBC News last week.

Mason's 41-year-old mother was also critically injured in the explosion.

Then, just before noon on March 12, a third bombing critically injured a 75-year-old Hispanic woman, Esperanza Herrera.

Linder, of the NAACP, added that someone connected to the House or Mason families was the intended target in the third explosion, although he declined to provide additional details.

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"We don't have any evidence," Manley said. "What we know for certain is: We have three victims that are victims of color, and we have three package bombs that have exploded on the east side of Austin," where many of the city's minority residents live.
Of particular note:  His Lordship hasn't mentioned it.  He's always quick to post some phony thoughts and prayers tweet when a service member dies in an accident, and chime in on how immigrants are ruining civilization when there's a bombing overseas.  The Austin bombings have two factors that prevent him from tweeting: 1) so far, only people of color have been killed, and 2) he doesn't know who is responsible - and it could be a white supremacist, so he can't condemn yet.



UPDATE:
Background on the bomber.

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