Posted on 12/25/2020 10:58:16 AM PST by USA Conservative
An explosion shook the largely deserted streets of downtown Nashville early Christmas morning, shattering windows, damaging buildings and wounding three people. Authorities said they believed the blast was intentional. The FBI is leading the investigation.
The police came across a suspicious RV parked outside a nearby AT&T building near Second Avenue and Commerce Street before 6 a.m., when initially responding to calls of shots fired in the area, said Metro police spokesperson Don Aaron.
There was no immediate evidence of any shooting but officers alerted the department’s bomb squad, which was en route when a “significant explosion” happened about 30 minutes later, Aaron said.
Just before the blast, officers were conducting door-to-door checks in the area and redirected a man walking his dog along the street. The force of the explosion knocked an officer to the ground. Three people were hospitalized with injuries, police said.
Video below:
Aaron said it was unclear if anyone was inside the RV when it exploded.
Another video that was sent to us a few moments ago shows the exact moment of the explosion.
What is striking was the vehicle with the bomb is warning through horns that the area had to be evacuated.
Video below:
(video uploaded on the site)
Betsy Williams, the owner of the Melting Pot building across the street, told The Tennessean that guests reported the RV was stationed there since Thursday night.
Williams, who lives in a loft apartment on the third floor, said she heard the sound of loud, rapid-fire gunshots at about 4:30 a.m.
After multiple rounds of gunshot sounds, Williams said she called 911.
Then, she said, she heard a repeated warning she said came from the RV parked outside her building.
“Evacuate now. There is a bomb. A bomb is in this vehicle and will explode,” she remembers the recorded warning saying.
Then, she said, the voice started a 15-minute countdown.
Buildings shook in the immediate area and beyond after a loud boom was heard.
Footage from the scene on 2nd Ave North shows the damage that has been done:
President Donald Trump has been briefed, according to White House spokesperson Judd Deere, who said that Trump, who is spending the holidays in Florida, will continue to receive regular updates. The U.S. Justice Department said Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen was also briefed and directed all department resources be made available to help with the investigation.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said on Twitter that the state would provide the resources necessary “to determine what happened and who was responsible. Please join @MariaLeeTN and me in praying for those who were injured and we thank all of our first responders who acted so quickly this morning.”
They are sweeping Nashville with dogs to make sure there are no other bombs.
Directv was a pretty good product ‘till they got in bed with att.....I have seen a noticeable drop in overall quality since that marriage made in hell.
For now my wife and I want to watch a few college bowl games on cable...between my smart tv and my Roku after Jan 1 I’ll be kicking them to the curb.
Surely that t.v. had a vin # on it. Hopefully it survived in tact and they can do some tracking.
The vin tag will be recovered. They ll track it to a leftist based group. The investigation will end there.
Too early to speculate. For all we know this could just be some pissed off guy AT&T fired.
Police have confirmed the announcements were coming from the RV.
I wonder, would the ATT equipment have record of a phone call made or text relayed from someone in the Nashville area on election night, when the command came from ‘someone’ to stop counting so the observers would be sent away and the counterfeit ballots then being counted?
I doubt that it came from our side, because the aspect of ATT it affected was just a basic good use of technology...providing the infrastructure and routing for emergency services, obviously in this case, particularly to rural areas.
The person i know who works for ATT maintaining these systems....which involves trips to remote sheriff’s stations and fire departments in the mountains....said that they have been targeted by radical environmentalists in the past. That doesn’t sound like it would apply here, though.
The countdown is extremely creepy. They wanted to minimize civilian casualties, but they specifically attracted law enforcement with the shots fired call.
Even if so I sure wouldn’t hold my breath waitin’ for ‘em to cooperate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Building_(Nashville)
AT&T - formerly Bell South is the sole occupant. Bldg description at link
Deep state aided and abetted by Hollywood. Need a exploding car ? Yeah, Hollywood does that all the time. I wonder who insisted on having the female,voiced warning broadcast from the car bomb ?
“Who has motive to do that?”
IHMO it’s leftists who think they are tough, but don’t have enough guts to kill someone for their cause. Instead, they carry out a half-assed bombing so if they get caught they will be let go without bail. Or so they think.
The targets of the killer didn’t fit the “White Supremacist” narrative the FBI needed.
I thought I read about him booking a room during a concert with a different demographic and he canceled.
We know, the FBI and DHS under 0bama was obsessed with casting white males as the enemy.
I know there was a lot said about there being two or more shooters but I don’t see it.
One guy, heavily armed, highly motivated and completely jacked up by FBI Agents to execute the plan.
“The vin tag will be recovered”
IIRC in Oklahoma City they started with a serial number from an axle and were interviewing the rental agency that afternoon. That was 25 years ago. Of course, the FBI was “different” back then, so who knows what’s happening now.
A “dry run”. “Practice”. “Experiment”.
What damage would it cause? Did we use enough explosives?
Let’s do it somewhere near home first that duplicates the street conditions and lay out of where we want to place the “REAL” bomb. Like maybe Washington DC during Mega-rally Jan 6?
They are sweeping Nashville with dogs
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That is a lot of sweeping......
Muslims wouldn’t include a warning or give 15 minutes for victims to get away. A reluctance to kill may be an indicator it’s “protest” bomb by a disgruntled citizen, possibly a mentally disturbed Christian [has church attendence been restricted?], maybe a disgruntled business owner irritated or economically hurt by lockdowns? Maybe someone who spent too much time on the phone with AT&T’s customer no-service?
re: what terrorists?
Hmm? Let me guess. Demon-Rats?
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