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inanna

(3,547 posts) Tue Jan 6, 2015, 05:43 PM Jan 2015

FBI helps investigate explosion near Colorado Springs NAACP

Source: Associated Press

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The FBI is helping investigate an explosion near the Colorado Springs chapter of the NAACP.

The blast happened Tuesday outside a barber shop next door to the group's building, which is about an hour south of Denver. Police say no injuries were reported.

FBI spokeswoman Amy Sanders it's not known yet whether the explosion was an accident or not or whether it was aimed at the nation's oldest civil rights organization.

The extent of the damage from the explosion wasn't immediately clear. Photos of the scene don't show any visible damage to the barber shop building.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/explosion-rocks-colorado-barber-shop-no-injuries-reported-202104239.html

I am glad nobody was hurt.

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FBI helps investigate explosion near Colorado Springs NAACP (Original Post) inanna Jan 2015 OP

Update: this article says the "NAACP office was bombed" ellenrr Jan 2015 #1

FBI hunts Colorado man in connection with explosion near NAACP office Eugene Jan 2015 #2

Nuts! laserhaas Jan 2015 #3

I can hear a conservative now claiming this had nothing to do with race.... Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2015 #4

US Media Mostly Ignore Bomb Exploded Outside NAACP Office in Colorado Springs Judi Lynn Jan 2015 #5

ellenrr

(3,864 posts)

1. Update: this article says the "NAACP office was bombed"

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Jan 7, 2015, 06:27 AM

Jan 2015

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/01/06/3608722/a-colorado-naacp-office-was-apparently-bombed-today/

In what appears to be an attack on a well-known civil rights organization, an “improvised explosive device” detonated on Tuesday at the headquarters of the Colorado Springs, Colorado NAACP, according to a statement by the FBI. No one was killed or injured in the explosion, and there was “only minimal surface charring to the exterior wall of the building,” which also includes a hair salon. The explosion could have been much worse, however, as the explosive device was placed next to a gasoline can in an apparent attempt to increase the force of the explosion. The gasoline did not ignite.

The FBI statement adds that a “potential person of interest in this investigation is a Caucasian male, approximately 40 years of age, and balding. He may be driving a 2000 or older model dirty, white pick-up truck with paneling, a dark colored bed liner, open tailgate, and a missing or covered license plate.”

Eugene

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2. FBI hunts Colorado man in connection with explosion near NAACP office

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Jan 7, 2015, 10:26 AM

Jan 2015

Source: Associated Press

FBI hunts Colorado man in connection with explosion near NAACP office

Associated Press in Colorado Springs
theguardian.com, Wednesday 7 January 2015 12.48 GMT

Authorities are looking for a man who may have information about a homemade explosive that someone set off near the Colorado Springs chapter of the NAACP.

The blast happened Tuesday outside a barber shop that’s next door to the group’s office, which is about an hour south of Denver. There were no injuries and only minor damage, police said.

An improvised explosive device was detonated against the building, but it was too soon to know whether the nation’s oldest civil rights organization was the target, FBI spokeswoman Amy Sanders said. The agency sent members of its Joint Terrorism Task Force to help investigate.

Sanders said investigators were looking for a balding white man in his 40s who may be driving a dirty pickup truck. It could have an open tailgate or a missing or covered license plate.

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laserhaas

(7,805 posts)

3. Nuts!

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Wed Jan 7, 2015, 11:26 AM

Jan 2015

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

4. I can hear a conservative now claiming this had nothing to do with race....

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Jan 7, 2015, 03:24 PM

Jan 2015

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The building the NAACP it was in was shared by a barber shop and the guy who did it was described as "balding".

Sure,....retaliation for the barber cutting off his comb over.

That's the motive.

.....uh huh.....

Judi Lynn

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5. US Media Mostly Ignore Bomb Exploded Outside NAACP Office in Colorado Springs

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Jan 7, 2015, 03:37 PM

Jan 2015

US Media Mostly Ignore Bomb Exploded Outside NAACP Office in Colorado Springs
By: Kevin Gosztola Wednesday January 7, 2015 11:54 am

A bomb was detonated late in the morning on January 6 in Colorado Springs against the exterior of a building, where a local NAACP chapter’s office is located. The FBI, including the agency’s own Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives were on the scene very soon afterward to investigate the explosion. And, yet, this attack was not immediately headline news for all Americans.

Searching through transcripts, it does not appear that CNN or MSNBC reported the bombing during any of their January 6 broadcasts. It was not mentioned by local news network affiliates during their broadcasts (except for in the region local to Colorado Springs). It was reported by the Associated Press, but the New York Times used a paragraph summary from the AP instead of producing their own coverage.

The Washington Post published a report from AP, however, eventually the media organization published a post on the kind of context this type of incident deserves: the history of violence against the NAACP for its work to achieve civil rights for black people.

There were no injuries from the blast that went off. The wall of the building was charred. An individual had placed a gas can next to an explosive but FBI officials said the gas can had not been ignited by the explosion.

More:
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2015/01/07/us-media-mostly-ignore-bomb-exploded-outside-wall-of-naacp-office-in-colorado-springs/

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