Posted on 10/30/2017 6:14:36 PM PDT by SaveFerris
KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) -
A church maintenance worker has been charged with arson after setting a fire at Concord Cultural Center and spray-painting racist graffiti on the front of the adjoining church in an effort to cover up his burglary, said Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri.
Nathaniel D. Nelson, 48, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Kansas City. Nelson remains in federal custody pending a detention hearing.
Nelson was a member of the church who was employed as a maintenance worker at the church and cultural center, located at 11040 W. Longview Pkwy.
Firefighters were called by a church employee and responded to the cultural center on Sunday morning. A fire had occurred in an office inside the building but a sprinkler had activated and extinguished the fire prior to the arrival of firefighters. Investigators concluded that an office chair and other ordinary combustible material had been intentionally ignited using an open flame.
Investigators also discovered racist graffiti spray-painted on the front of the church. A racial slur, the letters “KKK” and a symbol similar to a swastika were visible from the main entrance into the parking lot as members of the congregation arrived for church for Sunday morning services.
The digital video recorder for the video surveillance system that monitored the foyer area and the cultural center’s interior and exterior cameras was unplugged and no longer recording when examined by investigators.
Investigators determined that the DVR system lost power sometime after 1 a.m. Sunday and had been intentionally unplugged.
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He doesn’t look like the brightest bulb on the planet.
And there’s even more evidence in that photo.
Possibly charged under the Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996?
Looks like it says “Hands up! don’t Z!”
“Possibly charged under the Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996?“
There is such a thing? Who knew.
You mean the one passed by the Republican Congress after all them church burnin's and signed into law by our First Black Pres-i-dent? That one?
They ever find out who torched them churches?
I did a search for "setting fire to churches federal crime" and came up with that. Then discovered that Clinton had signed the bill into law, probably based on all those black churches he remembered being burned in Arkansas when he was a kid. Another lie.
Unfortunately, the perp spelled a racial epithet incorrectly, and people thought he was commenting on the situation in West-Central Africa.
The pattern is increasingly familiar, n’est ce pas?
Yes it is.
Just shows how unhinged some of these kooks are.
HOAX CRIMES MATTER. Release this individual, he was only trying to establish the victim status he needed.
Got you covered.
Fake Hate Crimes
but you repeat yourself
was BLM protesting this one too?
Must've been trying to do it in cursive.
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