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Visitors to Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth home stop a woman from setting fire to it
npr ^ | 12/08/2023

Posted on 12/09/2023 8:14:19 AM PST by BenLurkin

On Thursday, a woman emptied what looked to be a large red can of gasoline all over the front porch of the house where Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta. She was seemingly intent on burning the historic home down.

But two visitors from Utah who had come to see the historic site were watching the woman — and they acted quickly to save it, standing in her way when she tried to bring a lighter onto the porch. When the woman tried to leave the scene, two other visitors stopped her and held her until police arrived.

"Their quick action saved the jewel of our city, something very important to Atlanta," Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum told local TV stations at the scene. Praising the bystanders who intervened, he added, "That action saved an important part of American history tonight."

Police arrived at the home around 5:45 p.m., after getting a 911 call about vandalism at the home just east of downtown Atlanta.

The officers found "two what we believe to be off-duty NYPD officers who'd been visiting the center that had the individual detained," Schierbaum said, adding that the officers had chased the woman down as she attempted to flee.

In an update, Atlanta Police identified the woman as Laneisha Shantrice Henderson, 26. She has now been charged with arson and interfering with government property.

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: arson; atlanta; donate2freerepublic; georgia; mlk
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1 posted on 12/09/2023 8:14:19 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Laneisha - where do they get these crazy names? Certainly not Africa.


2 posted on 12/09/2023 8:17:18 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

Laniesha. Pretty name. Very American.


3 posted on 12/09/2023 8:21:20 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Video of the act
Woman charged with pouring gasoline, trying to burn down Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta birth home
https://rumble.com/v40ay2a-woman-charged-with-trying-to-burn-down-martin-luther-king-jr.s-atlanta-birt.html


4 posted on 12/09/2023 8:23:13 AM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: BenLurkin

The left is very good at removing historical monuments.


5 posted on 12/09/2023 8:24:35 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: BenLurkin
She was black
6 posted on 12/09/2023 8:24:47 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong

Memory hole...


7 posted on 12/09/2023 8:25:56 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: BenLurkin

But if she hadn’t been caught in the act, guess how it would be reported.


8 posted on 12/09/2023 8:27:14 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: BenLurkin
Atlanta Police identified the woman as Laneisha Shantrice Henderson...


9 posted on 12/09/2023 8:28:13 AM PST by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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To: BenLurkin

Another “ white supremacist “ narrative down the tubes.

Don’t you feel sorry for the criminal media?


10 posted on 12/09/2023 8:28:49 AM PST by BrexitBen
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To: BenLurkin

And had she been successful, we KNOW what our slimy, deserving execution media would have done with the story. Interesting, is it not, that the vast, vast majority of the “racist” acts have been perped by...wait for it...you know whos.


11 posted on 12/09/2023 8:34:41 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Salman
But if she hadn’t been caught in the act, guess how it would be reported.

“The gas can was red—a dog whistle to MAGA supporters! Reeeeee!”

12 posted on 12/09/2023 8:40:38 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Robert DeLong

Still is too.


13 posted on 12/09/2023 8:42:22 AM PST by fretzer
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To: BenLurkin

Little princess must have been in the mood for some rioting to get rolling.


14 posted on 12/09/2023 8:43:18 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: fretzer

Yep, she still is and always will be, but she wasn’t white for those who may had thought that she was. 🤣


15 posted on 12/09/2023 8:49:26 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Blueflag

“Two visitors from Utah who had come to see the historic site were watching the woman — and they acted quickly to save it, standing in her way when she tried to bring a lighter onto the porch.”

Two white people? More reason to memory hole this crime.

That will be challenging however as their act calls for recognition by the city and the country. I look forward to hearing about these two who risked their lives to save a historic building. It sounds very much like a white people thing.


16 posted on 12/09/2023 8:58:10 AM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: gloryblaze

Probably wanted to get the Walmart Christmas Shopping for Looters started. Christmas is comin’ on fast and she has got any Christmas looting done.


17 posted on 12/09/2023 9:22:34 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The damage Biden and his freak show is doing to America is not reversable.)
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To: BenLurkin

“I have a nightmare “


18 posted on 12/09/2023 9:40:11 AM PST by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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To: Robert DeLong

No doubt...we know this because it isn’t all over the news. If it’d been a white the country would be on fire by now.


19 posted on 12/09/2023 9:44:22 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Blueflag

“Memory hole...”

Pretty much. At least the “Third Day Hole”.

The media blurred out pictures and didn’t report a name until the story was buried. And there’s no interest in finding a motive for a black person to burn down MLK’s home.


20 posted on 12/09/2023 9:45:15 AM PST by Rinnwald
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