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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.
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Previously: Two Injured in Fourth Package Bombing Incident this Month in Austin, Texas
(Score: 5, Touché) by Thexalon on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:47PM (3 children)
What is it about white guys that is causing all these kinds of problems, like the prevalence of white-on-white crime, high levels of heroin overdoses, and white fathers that aren't a part of their child's life? Why aren't the leaders of the white community issuing condemnations of this kind of behavior? Also, a lot of these guys are Christian, and we haven't heard Christian leaders standing up and condemning terrorists, so I think we should be investigating all churches for their support of terrorists in their midst. Or maybe it's the country music that they all seem to like that often celebrates defiance of authority, and we should be keeping a close eye on fans of Luke Bryan. Or maybe it's video games, movies, and television that are created by white people for entertaining other white people that glorify criminal activity and violence, like Breaking Bad or Deadpool.
Almost all the terrorist violence in recent months have been committed by white guys. The Las Vegas shooting? White guy. The Parkland School shooting? White guy. I can keep going.
And if you think any of this is unfair, just remember that lots of people would be making similar arguments had the bad guy been any other color.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @05:07PM (2 children)
Terrorism is a rich man's game. See Bin Laden or these white guys. Drive by shootings and other types of murder are a poor man's game.
As the affluenza of other racial groups increases, they will join in the fun and existential dread.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday March 21 2018, @08:52PM (1 child)
Actually, it's mostly a middle-class man's game. The really rich people rarely have any motivation to commit acts of terrorism (they already have whatever it is that they want), and the poor folks as you mention don't usually have the means.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @10:17PM
Middle class American = rich to most of the world