Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

SoylentNews is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop. Only 19 submissions in the queue.

Austin Bombing Suspect Killed Himself in Explosion as SWAT Approached

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

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Austin Bombing Suspect Killed Himself in Explosion as SWAT Approached | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 127 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by eravnrekaree on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:40PM (16 children)

    by eravnrekaree (555) on Wednesday March 21 2018, @02:40PM (#656110)

    The crime among foreign aliens and especially illegal aliens in the US is much higher than American citizens. Whites and Orientals are the two lowest crime rate groups in America (by far). This does not mean that there is never a white person who ever commits a crime, of course. You're basically asking for a crime rate of zero, something unrealistic.

    But immigration policy shouldnt be based on crime rates, it should be based on the concept that countries should be independant, soveriegn and self sufficient and have a right to borders and maintain their uniqueness. This is what numerous other countries do, I am for immigration policies no different than what Israel or Japan does. You don't have to allow your country to be overrun and taken over by foreign people to prove you don't dislike foreign people. Somehow in the West, simply wanting to maintain the uniqueness and sovereignty of Western countries now equates to dislike of people from elsewhere. This is an oxymoron. Everyone is a foreign person to someone else. Europeans are foreign to the Chinese. If we allow a place like Europe to be overrun so its indigenous population is turned into a minority, its not "tolerant" of foreign people because to others Europeans are a foreign people. For example, you wouldn't support flooding Japan with Hindus and then claim that you love and respect Japan when you are obviously destroying everything that Japan is and what defines it as a unique people.

    Mass immigration in the West seems to be driven by pathological self hatred of people that hate themselves and want to drive their own people to extinction as if it is their duty and obligation to do so. Ultimately it is rooted in contempt for diversity globally. Mass immigration does not promote diversity. If we simply stop all immigration, what happens? All countries maintain their unique and distinct qualities, Over here you have muslim countries, some arab countries, asian countries, European countries, christian countries, etc etc. Mass immigration if anything is destructive to the diversity of unique and distinct nations. Countries can have multiple constituent ethnic groups, in that case that is what defines the uniqueness of that country and having no immigration protects each of those groups equally from having their country overrun.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   -1  
       Flamebait=2, Insightful=1, Total=3
    Extra 'Flamebait' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  
    Total Score:   1  

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Whoever on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:53PM (2 children)

    by Whoever (4524) on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:53PM (#656152) Journal

    The crime among foreign aliens and especially illegal aliens in the US is much higher than American citizens.

    False. Actual studies show that crime committed by illegal immigrants is lower than crime committed by citizens.

    http://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2017/aug/03/antonio-villaraigosa/mostly-true-undocumented-immigrants-less-likely-co/ [politifact.com]

    Unless, when you say "among", you mean that the aliens are more likely to be victims of crime? This is probably true because they are easy to victimize, with wage theft being a common crime committed against illegal immigrants.

    Your post is based on a falsehood, which suggests that what drives it is pure racism.

    • (Score: 1, Troll) by cocaine overdose on Thursday March 22 2018, @01:42AM

      by cocaine overdose (6886) <cocaineoverdose@protonmail.com> on Thursday March 22 2018, @01:42AM (#656428) Homepage Journal
      While the article in question is horribly wrong, and the only recent and credible study it mentions is just a reference of another study that lies with statistics and does bad math, I couldn't find a way for this to be untrue with the correct FBI/DoJ/BoP statistics (besides that whites have less incarceration rates than illegals). Even after removing blacks and hispanics (which it turns out aren't so bad, but fuck native americans, you make up like 1% of the pop and you do as much crime as hispanics), we're only left with 60% of all crime done by the rest of the races. Asians do so little crime anyway, but they're usually extremely violent when they do snap from being virgins.

      However, these statistics are also bad because it doesn't show the real story of: how illegal immigrants are usually in better shape than natives and can escape pursuit and incarceration, and that illegals usually get deported well before they're incarcerated.

    • (Score: 2) by arslan on Thursday March 22 2018, @01:58AM

      by arslan (3462) on Thursday March 22 2018, @01:58AM (#656435)

      Umm.. am I the only seeing that one side is saying _illegal_ immigrants, and the otherside linking to articles that does studies on _legal_ immigrants... they're not the same thing.

      In fact one of the article specifically state they didn't have insights on the _illegal_ immigrants sector.

      Not that I'm siding with op or anything, just injecting some objectivity here.

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:18PM (1 child)

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:18PM (#656171) Journal

    Wrong. [cato.org] On every assertion you make. Wrong.

    --
    This sig for rent.

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:42PM (10 children)

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:42PM (#656180) Homepage Journal

    and have a right to borders and maintain their uniqueness.

    A very good point. And what is it that makes the US unique? We were the first country with a written constitution that guaranteed liberty and equal protection under the law for *all*. And freedom of expression and freedom of (and from) religion.

    The ideals of liberty, equality and the rule of law are what makes the US special. That's our uniqueness. And anyone who opposes that hates America and everythingit stands for.

    It's not American football, apple pie, church on Sunday, country music, hip hop, fried chicken or pulled pork. And it's definitely not about being white. Or being brown.

    We are a nation of *immigrants* (and I don't care whether it was you who came here, or your parents, or their grandparents, or indentured workers who came in the 18th century, or Mayflower Puritans --they were a piece of work too, or even the folks who traversed the Bering land bridge 10-14,000 years ago. We are *all* immigrants to this land) who come together (except for those of us who hate what's different from them) to create a place that's good for *everyone*.

    The problem isn't the muzzies or the beaners or the niggers or the homos and trannies. The problem is the folks who are hateful, exclusionary and use such words unironically.

    Kinda like you. Why do you hate America and its ideals? Why do you want to destroy what gives us our greatest strength?

    --
    No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr

    • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by jmorris on Wednesday March 21 2018, @06:35PM (8 children)

      by jmorris (4844) on Wednesday March 21 2018, @06:35PM (#656273)

      So that is why the Constitution explicitly says, "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" and the first Congress passed an immigration and naturalization act declaring that only "whites of good moral character" were eligible. All that "America is a universal country for everybody" is modern rewrite, and yes it is largely the (((usual))) suspects.

      And we were so "free from religion" that most of the States were outright theocracies. The Federal Government was mandated to forbid religious tests for office to avoid Holy Wars and keep the peace.

      And no, we are not a nation of immigrants, that too is recent propaganda from people who wish us ill. We are a nation of colonists, learn the difference. Builders, not beggars and leeches.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday March 21 2018, @09:21PM (7 children)

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday March 21 2018, @09:21PM (#656351) Journal

        Yeah, we committed wholesale genocide rather than this slow, insidious corruption of the culture from within. Go us!

        God, you are an irredeemable piece of shit. Choke on David Duke's dick and die already will you?

        --
        I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...

    • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by cocaine overdose on Thursday March 22 2018, @01:47AM

      by cocaine overdose (6886) <cocaineoverdose@protonmail.com> on Thursday March 22 2018, @01:47AM (#656431) Homepage Journal
      Cause you ain't blood, sanguine. You may bleed red, patriotic american blood, but you ain't blood. I'll take raping your country for all it's worth and only elevating my family for $500, Alex. What would you like to see next? I can pump more opiates into the hands of whites or I can restart the abortion propaganda campaign. Your pick, but I'm making cash either way.