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posted by takyon on Wednesday March 21 2018, @10:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the went-out dept.
Austin bomb suspect blows self up as SWAT team approached

The suspect in a spate of bombings that terrorized residents of Austin, Texas, died after detonating an explosive inside his vehicle as a SWAT team approached to apprehend him on the side of a highway, officials said.

Early Wednesday, authorities tracked the suspect — a 24-year-old white man — to a hotel in Round Rock, a city in the Austin metropolitan area, Austin Police Chief Brian Manley told a news conference early Wednesday.

They tracked his vehicle until it pulled over on Interstate 35 and the suspect "detonated a bomb inside the vehicle, knocking one of our SWAT officers back and one of our officers fired on the vehicle as well," Manley said.

Austin serial bombings.

Also at CNN, BBC, and Bloomberg.

Previously: Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas

 
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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by VLM on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:32PM (3 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 21 2018, @01:32PM (#656084)

    White Men showed up late to the slave markets, and then decided to end slavery world-wide for everyone, going to war even with other White Men over the issue.

    More evil white male oppression... think of all those Jews and other Africans who were running the slave trade. I mean, you didn't think those slave ships merely docked at the coast of Africa and asked which aisle at CostCo has the bulk packs of slaves? To keep Jewish and Black businessmen safe from the evil white males we're going to have to ban them from doing business with whites. Totally need white only restaurants to contain the evil away from the good non-whites and non-Jewish movie companies and theaters and music industry execs, and especially a non-Jewish whites only financial system, to keep the Jews safe from those evil whites.

    Next, White Men continued on with the racist ideas the world had always had, and then decided to end racial thinking world-wide for everyone.

    Well, technically that political view, that race doesn't exist, was almost entirely Jews and the occasional unhinged neo-puritan and cat lady weirdo. And remember how the Jews got repaid for that thought leadership, with evil white men's ovens during WWII. For their own safety we're gonna have to send them all the Jews back to their home country, where they'll be safe. They have a nice ethnostate with a big beautiful wall around it, they'll be much safer far away from the evil white males. No doing business with those evil white males either, that'll teach them a lesson.

    Its fascinating how all the leftist propaganda and political indoctrination in the west is focused on the evil that is the horrid and awful white male, yet when you look at what they do instead of what they say, enormous efforts legally and monetarily are spent by minorities to gain access to those evil white institutions and hateful organizations. As if there's some constitutional amendment I somehow missed stating that non-white folks are legally guaranteed the company of other white folks, a "right of minority access to whites" as literally the highest priority civil right trumping all others.

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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:00PM (2 children)

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:00PM (#656156) Journal

    Rather than take a sarcastic and injured tone, let's employ some cool rationality. Seems appropriate to turn to the opposite of the hot irrationality that lead to these deaths. I've always found science and rationality best at explaining things. and even derive some comfort knowing that the world isn't senselessly, insanely dangerous, that there is reason, however twisted, behind such acts of evil.

    I was living in the DC area during the time that the DC sniper was terrorizing the city. I wondered if I would become one of the victims. Was a bit nervous the one day during the rampage that I had to gas up my car, staring into nearby wooded areas and shrubbery, watching for furtive movement. And I kept moving about, cleaning my windows and such, to make myself a slightly harder target. Yes, there was a chance, but I realized that the sniper was only able to off a very few people per day at most, with a final body count of 17 deaths and 10 injuries, and the DC metro area has a population of 6 million, with no guarantee the killers wouldn't widen their target area (and they did, when they pulled an attack 90 miles to the south, well outside the DC metro area), which made the odds of being hit about 1 in a million if the population of Baltimore and Richmond are added. Heck, there's about a 1 in 4 million chance of getting into an injury auto-accident on a short trip to a gas station, grocery, work, or whatever.

    One of the most vicious things about 9/11 is that the perps were in many ways more interested in using their "accomplishment" to play to their home audiences, talk to them, rather than talk however bloodily to their victim, the US. In their sick fantasy world, they had already dismissed the US as a paper tiger that would fall over and collapse if given the tiniest of shoves, and there is no point in talking to the dead, whether still walking or not.

    From what I read, it sounds like white men are the most likely to pull a lone wolf murder-suicide. And the reason why is that the white man has been on top-- the most privileged and wealthy group in our society-- and a very few of those members who feel they don't have the same high status as their fellows, maybe had it once and lost it, lost it through sheer stupidity and would rather die than admit they messed up, rather blame everyone else for their fall, react with extreme violence. One thing though. If it was some other group on top, they'd probably have the same issue.

    • (Score: 2) by NewNic on Wednesday March 21 2018, @05:12PM (1 child)

      by NewNic (6420) on Wednesday March 21 2018, @05:12PM (#656207) Journal

      I wondered if I would become one of the victims. Was a bit nervous the one day during the rampage that I had to gas up my car, staring into nearby wooded areas and shrubbery, watching for furtive movement. And I kept moving about, cleaning my windows and such, to make myself a slightly harder target. Yes, there was a chance, but I realized that the sniper was only able to off a very few people per day at most, with a final body count of 17 deaths and 10 injuries,

      You are demonstrating one of the factors that has caused bad policy decisions: the inability to rationally analyse risk. Your risk of dying by being shot by the DC sniper while filling your tank was probably far lower than your risk of dying in a car accident during the remained of your journey. You appear to have been at least partially aware of the relative risks, but most people are usually not.

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      • (Score: 2) by deimtee on Thursday March 22 2018, @10:26AM

        by deimtee (3272) on Thursday March 22 2018, @10:26AM (#656542) Journal

        He wasn't irrational. By his own analysis (I'm not going to double-check his figures) being shot by the sniper was a one in a million risk. One in four million of dying on the rest of the trip is only one fifth of the total risk of those trips. Four fifths of the risk is the sniper.
        (Actually, I do distrust his figures. The one in a million figure should be spread across however many trips he took while the sniper was active. (To be even more painfully correct it should be spread across the average number of trips potential victims took during the period of time the sniper was active.))

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