Posted on 11/11/2022 3:35:24 AM PST by grundle
The Mississippi Democrat Congressional candidate said that the incident 'invoke[d] historical acts of terrorism'
Police in Mississippi arrested a 23-year-old old suspect thought to be associated with seven fires across Jackson, with two of them being at churches, in what one Democrat Congressional candidate called an attempt to suppress votes.
Among the two churches set on fire, one of them was destroyed in the fire. All the fires took place around Jackson early Tuesday morning.
Shuwaski Young, a former candidate for Mississippi's 3rd Congressional District, said that the fire was an attempt to suppress votes in the area and said it invokes acts of terrorism.
"This morning several churches were burned in Jackson, Mississippi on Election Day. These cowardly actions invoke historical acts of terrorism when people are fighting for their right to vote and live peacefully as Americans and Missisippians," Young said. "We will not be deterred and will not be intimidated. We will not allow domestic terrorists to suppress our right to vote. I ask all Mississippians to GO VOTE regardless of this decades old intimidation tactic to suppress our votes today. Just Go VOTE."
Beginning on Tuesday at around 2:45 a.m., officials received calls regarding six fires around the city. By 6 a.m., six of the seven fires were put out by firefighters.
Epiphany Lutheran Church, a predominantly Black church in Jackson, was among the churches burnt and was on fire for over four hours.
At Jackson State University, a historically Black school, a fire began in the area surrounding the baseball practice field.
The Hinds County Sheriff's Office said that Devin McLaurin was arrested in relation to the arson incidents, but didn't add what his motivation was.
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said that no polling locations were impacted by the fires.
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Clayton Bigsby?
One thing is for sure......you won’t have to worry about hearing this story in the news any more.
Nothing about it on national news. Of course. Local news reports it, and that’s where the story dies.
And you will never see a retraction.
So long as nothing like this every make national news, fine.
Doesn’t fit the narrative!
Democrats will say anything, that’s obvious.
Democrats will say anything, that’s obvious.
Mission accomplished!
Breaker.... Breaker.... CB here.
It IS a hate crime, committed against Republicans. He hoped Republicans would be blamed, and he was right, until he got caught.
William Randolph Hearst
Another fake “hate” crime, another black perpetrator. The odds must now be like 0.02% chance that these “hate” crimes are done by whites.
Obviously the guy is “white adjacent”. (I’m not sure what that means, but I’ve heard the phrase before and it sounds a good enough excuse as any).
gee, what on earth could it be?.......I am stuned..........................
I’m shocked I tell yah. Just shocked
suspect who got arrested is black.
no no no you’ll never make it in the news media business he has to be a white man in black face and body just back from a KKK meeting.
Welcome to the MSM
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