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3rd Explosion in Austin After 2 Package Bombs Linked
nbc ^ | Mar 12, 2018 | Will Weissert and David Warren

Posted on 03/12/2018 12:18:12 PM PDT by Morgana

Investigators believe a package bomb that killed a teenager and wounded a woman in Austin on Monday is linked to a similar bombing that killed a man elsewhere in the city this month, and they're considering whether race was a factor because all of the victims were black.

Shortly after police Chief Brian Manley held a news conference in which he linked the Monday morning attack that killed a 17-year-old boy and injured a woman with a March 2 attack that killed a 39-year-old man, authorities rushed to the scene of another blast that badly injured a woman.

Authorities haven't said whether the most recent blast was also caused by a package bomb or if the victim, like those killed or injured in the two confirmed bombings, is black. Austin-Travis County EMS tweeted that the woman is in her 70s and was taken to Dell Seton Medical Center with potentially life-threatening

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; austin; brianmanley; explosion; mailbomb; texas
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I searched this title and nothing came up.

What is going on?? this is the third one

1 posted on 03/12/2018 12:18:12 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

dupe


2 posted on 03/12/2018 12:19:29 PM PDT by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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To: Morgana

Aren’t the days gone when you could simply festoon a package with stamps and drop her in the ole’ post bin..?

I think senders need to be SEEN now, right..?


3 posted on 03/12/2018 12:20:24 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Morgana

...they’re considering whether race was a factor because all of the victims were black.


Yeah. They should do that with all the shootings in Chicago too. ;)


4 posted on 03/12/2018 12:20:31 PM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: Morgana
they're considering whether race was a factor

Seems like I've read somewhere about certain religions that like to blow people up.

5 posted on 03/12/2018 12:21:22 PM PDT by Gamecock (The greatest threat to humanity is not "out there" but "in here" in the recesses of the soul. TK)
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To: robroys woman

And of course if that scenario were reversed...
/s


6 posted on 03/12/2018 12:22:02 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Morgana

Austin liberals need to push for Bomb Control!


7 posted on 03/12/2018 12:22:43 PM PDT by goldstategop
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To: Gamecock; Chode

Religion of Peace at it again!!! I should have known.


8 posted on 03/12/2018 12:23:51 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: GnuThere

What’s interesting is that when they said all the victims were black, I immediately thought, “gang related”. What are you gonna do when you can’t get a gun? ;)


9 posted on 03/12/2018 12:24:35 PM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: Morgana

Police press conference about today’s second explosion (third this month) is expected to be announced within the hour via austin police department twitter page

https://twitter.com/Austin_Police


10 posted on 03/12/2018 12:24:38 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: Morgana

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=austin


11 posted on 03/12/2018 12:24:58 PM PDT by deport
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To: GnuThere

You mean the liberal mecca of TX ain’t explosives-free? Horrors!


12 posted on 03/12/2018 12:25:06 PM PDT by goldstategop
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To: Morgana

Race of the third victim(s) not yet disclosed.


13 posted on 03/12/2018 12:25:18 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: a fool in paradise

David Hogg thinks an IED is a Tide Pod.


14 posted on 03/12/2018 12:27:00 PM PDT by goldstategop
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To: Gamecock

A libtard radical from Austin tried to blow up a police car at the 2008 GOP convention and said he didn’t care if a police officer might be in the car.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/left-wing-extremist-plot-to-bomb-rnc-leads-to-copious-national-media-coverage-hand-wringing-over-dangers-to-republic/article/241935


15 posted on 03/12/2018 12:27:59 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: robroys woman

Older man, middle aged woman with a teenaged son, older woman.

Doesn’t so much sound gang related.


16 posted on 03/12/2018 12:28:54 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: a fool in paradise

If the third victim turns out to be black also, they’ll blame it on Trump make explosives too freely available...


17 posted on 03/12/2018 12:29:22 PM PDT by goldstategop
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To: Gamecock

[ Seems like I’ve read somewhere about certain religions that like to blow people up. ]

Druids? Mennonites?

Jmmm, that’s a poser. /Monty Python


18 posted on 03/12/2018 12:29:42 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Morgana

Off topic, but speaking of nothing coming up, did anyone see that story re FBI/Las Vegas that was up just a few minutes ago ?
It vanished while I was looking at something else.


19 posted on 03/12/2018 12:29:48 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Gamecock

There are black muslim mosques in east Austin with hate spewing bigots in their midst.


20 posted on 03/12/2018 12:29:51 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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