Posted on 12/09/2021 6:15:40 AM PST by Pollard
The arsonist who allegedly torched the Fox News Christmas tree was freed after his arraignment Wednesday night because his charges were not eligible for bail under new liberal reform laws.
“I didn’t do it!” suspect Craig Tamanaha, 49, claimed to reporters outside Manhattan criminal court after being asked about the early morning arson that caused about $500,000 in damage outside the Midtown building that houses Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post.
Tamanaha, a vagrant with a lengthy rap sheet who was known to police, also went on an incoherent rant outside the courthouse.
He denied the arson and hurled obscenities at reporters before asking them for a cigarette.
“The moms that want to rape their f—ing daughters — they set it on fire,” yelled the man, who had also allegedly exposed himself outside the Ghislaine Maxwell trial last week. New York Post front cover Dec. 9, 2021.
The suspect was hit with a slew of misdemeanor charges — including arson, criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and criminal trespass — for allegedly setting ablaze the 50-foot-tall artificial tree with a piece of cardboard that was on fire.
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Is anyone surprised???????????????
As predicted.
Hopefully he doesn’t accost the Mayor’s wife.
Maybe he will take an apartment building out next time.
Sex crime and arson... Both are serious crimes. He should not be out.
I predicted it here on FR the day they caught him.....I lso wouldn’t be surprised if deblosio and his commie wife somehow orchestrated it.
Also fox better have security around that tree...or it’ll happen again......remember you heard it here 1st.
Hey now. Allegedly the individual is a ‘habitationless’ person so has no assets to front for bail. Or something.... He probably won’t get close to kaiser wilhelm DUH BLAH zee-OH’s place. Odds that new yorkers will actually put DUH in the Gov mansion?
ROTFLMFAO!!!
But heaven help ya IF you don’t take the NYC clot shot!!!!
Communist liberalism is a chronic, no-cure mental disease.
Mentally ill person........................
The arsonist who allegedly torched the Fox News Christmas tree was freed after his arraignment Wednesday night because his charges were not eligible for bail under new liberal reform laws.
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Just as long as he didn’t commit a serious crime like “parading” or “trespassing”.
I will wager that he will be arrested again before Christmas.
WTF?!
“hurled obscenities at reporters before asking them for a cigarette...”
...did he get the cigarette?
This moron should be put down like a mad dog.
That said you would think the tree would have had a fire retardant sprayed on it to prevent this sort of thing.
Or at least if burned it would release toxic fumes that would take down the perp.
When we closed all the mental hospitals, we got homeless mentally ill people all over our streets. It costs more to keep running them through the jails and courts (and other associated costs) than it would to keep them safely off the streets and properly cared for.
Usually, these people are harmless and fall victim to crime. Some commit crimes. It’s not fair to the mentally ill or to society at large. Yet we rarely talk about this, and the media almost never run stories about it.
Exactly! You’re a menace to society if you don’t get all your shots & we’ll find ways to force you to get them, but this guy and thousands like him are ok.
Well, who didn’t see THAT coming?
Wonder what he can set a-blaze next that MIGHT get the attention of Law Enforcement? Maybe the DA’s car or house?
*SMIRK*
We’re so screwed. However, those living in Socialist Democrat run cities are more screwed, and there’s some consolation in that. ;)
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