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Police: Man with Rifle, ‘Incendiary Devices’ Attacked Migrant Detention Center Hours After ICE...
Breitbart ^ | 13 July 2019 | Bob Price

Posted on 07/13/2019 1:58:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

FULL TITLE: Police: Man with Rifle, ‘Incendiary Devices’ Attacked Migrant Detention Center Hours After ICE Protest

Police in Tacoma, Washington, say they shot and killed a man armed with a rifle and throwing flammable objects at a migrant detention center. The attack followed a rally outside the facility by several hours. The motivation of the attacker has not been released at this time. An employee at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma called police early Saturday morning to report a man with a rifle who was throwing “incendiary devices” and setting vehicles on fire, according to a report by QFox13.

The attack on the migrant detention center followed by several hours, a rally by migrant supporters outside the facility operated for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement by GEO Group.

It is unknown at this time if the individual was attacking the facility with anti-ICE motivations, anti-migrant motivations, or if it was unrelated to either motive; however, a statement from GEO Group, a Florida based company that operates the facility in Tacoma, attributed the attack to the anger resulting from misrepresentations in media.

The statement, published by QFox13 blamed a “factually inaccurate portrayal” of their detention centers for spurring “misplaced aggression and a dangerous environment for our employees.”

Tacoma police reported that officers responded to the call at about 4 a.m. on Saturday. The officers say the man wore a satchel and was holding flares, the Seattle Times reported. Spokeswoman Loretta Cool told reporters that officers reported, “shots fired.” The officers then fired at the suspect, she said. When officers approached the man, they determined he had been shot and killed.

“Police fired on the man in a parking lot across from the facility, striking him fatally,” QFox 13 reported.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: antifa; ice; obamasfault; whatshisduscreenname
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To: Lazamataz

I’d hit it...with a medieval mace or


61 posted on 07/13/2019 4:25:45 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: jonascord
❤️ that reference
62 posted on 07/13/2019 4:26:42 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: lightman

Perhaps he was carrying a satchel charge?


63 posted on 07/13/2019 4:27:09 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: Robert DeLong

Ok it’s a reference to Navin Johnson


64 posted on 07/13/2019 4:28:32 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Robert DeLong
There is an, apparently, old, movie, called "The Jerk", where a crazed sniper is shooting at Steve Martin, who is working as a gas station attendant. The sniper keeps hitting cans of oil, in a rack. Martin, playing a stupid Democrat, Navin, determines that the sniper hates the cans, hence the warning. It's a punchline.

You can, no doubt, find the clip on Youtube.

65 posted on 07/13/2019 4:28:58 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Husker24

“Well he’s dead....sooooo.“

I bet he will vote democrat in the next election.


66 posted on 07/13/2019 5:09:14 PM PDT by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

.... Been poking around the internet and it appears that the perp is some kind of whacked out musician in Tacoma with a group called “Super 8.”


67 posted on 07/13/2019 5:14:51 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: Steely Tom

A small fine? The Tacoma Police shot and killed the perpetrator. That is FINE by me!


68 posted on 07/13/2019 5:17:52 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: jonascord
I know the movie, however, I must admit I have never watched it. 8>)

I did go see the clip and can see your reference meaning now. You think I am a jerk. 8>)

Probably so. What evoked my response was the article stating they did not know his motive. I surmised his motive was that he hates detention centers. Afraid he would create collateral damage by trying to kill workers, he opted instead to inflict damage upon said workers by attacking them, in his mind, financially by destroying their vehicles.

Now he can meet his 144 virgins. If he was a Muslim it would only be 72, but since he is a woke social warrior he gets double what a Muslim martyr gets. 8>)

69 posted on 07/13/2019 5:32:21 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Phil DiBasquette

I have never watched “The Jerk”. Blame my ignorance on my avoidance of Hollywood from an early age I guess. 8>)


70 posted on 07/13/2019 5:35:05 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: EagleUSA

71 posted on 07/13/2019 5:37:16 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We chose Trump.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
..... As I mentioned before ..... Been poking around the internet and it appears that the perp is some kind of whacked out musician in Tacoma with a group called “Super 8.”

... Apparently he goes by the name "Will van Spronsen" and has been trying to raise money for a Legal Defense Fund through Indiegogo because he is caught up in a Domestic Violence dispute with his wife "Ariel van Spronsen." He has been trying to get visitation with his son named "Boots." ...... Yup ..... he named his son "Boots."

72 posted on 07/13/2019 5:42:40 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: lightman

Yep, real men wear “satchel charges”.


73 posted on 07/13/2019 6:17:26 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Destroying the vestiges of the First Civil War is ensuring the Second.)
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To: Steely Tom

He’s dead.


74 posted on 07/13/2019 6:56:44 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: Nateman


Van Spronsen was accused of assaulting a police officer during a protest outside the detention center last year.

Charging papers said he lunged at the officer and wrapped his arms around the officer’s neck and shoulders, as the officer was trying to detain a 17-year-old protester June 26, 2018.

Police managed to handcuff Van Spronsen, and found that he had a collapsible baton and a folding knife in his pocket, the charging papers say.”

https://www-1.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article232647262.html


75 posted on 07/13/2019 7:57:54 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Trump 2020 - Re-Elect the M*****F***er!)
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To: R_Kangel

After Boots Randolph?


76 posted on 07/13/2019 8:03:51 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Deb Bartley, a friend of Van Spronsen’s for about 20 years, described him as an anarchist and anti-fascist, and she believes his attack on the detention center was intended to provoke a fatal conflict. 

 “He was ready to end it,” Bartley said. “I think this was a suicide. But then he was able to kind of do it in a way that spoke to his political beliefs … I know he went down there knowing he was going to die.”

She and other friends of Van Spronsen got letters in the mail “just saying goodbye.” He also wrote what she referred to as a manifesto, which she declined to discuss in detail but predicted would be taken by authorities.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/tacoma-police-armed-man-throwing-incendiary-devices-shot-outside-ice-detention-center/


77 posted on 07/13/2019 8:53:04 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Trump 2020 - Re-Elect the M*****F***er!)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
"... After Boots Randolph?"

....... Hey ..... Don't Talk Back .....

78 posted on 07/13/2019 9:53:52 PM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: Robert DeLong
No, not a Navin. Just somewhat surprised that such a common cultural reference would be missed.

If you read the book, Black Hawk Down, a group of troopers was pinned in a house, having got the sh!t shot out of them, awaiting relief, that might not come in time, while all the Skinnys in the World were still shooting, badly, at the windows.

One trooper made the same quip, and everyone there roared with laughter, knowing it just might be the last time they laughed. We're pinned in a house, called the Constitution, and the Rules of Engagement say that we can't shoot back. I'm here in Portland. And, Trump, our relief, is very high, and very far away.

It's sickening to know that, too soon, a whole lot of treasonous Democrats are going to meet their 144 Virgins, smugly convinced that they will find a Socialist Utopia.

79 posted on 07/13/2019 10:28:53 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: jonascord

I never was to into Hollywood & movies to be honest.


80 posted on 07/14/2019 5:13:11 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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