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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What is going on?? this is the third one
dupe
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..?
...they’re considering whether race was a factor because all of the victims were black.
Seems like I've read somewhere about certain religions that like to blow people up.
And of course if that scenario were reversed...
/s
Austin liberals need to push for Bomb Control!
Religion of Peace at it again!!! I should have known.
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? ;)
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
You mean the liberal mecca of TX ain’t explosives-free? Horrors!
Race of the third victim(s) not yet disclosed.
David Hogg thinks an IED is a Tide Pod.
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.
Older man, middle aged woman with a teenaged son, older woman.
Doesn’t so much sound gang related.
If the third victim turns out to be black also, they’ll blame it on Trump make explosives too freely available...
[ Seems like I’ve read somewhere about certain religions that like to blow people up. ]
Druids? Mennonites?
Jmmm, that’s a poser. /Monty Python
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.
There are black muslim mosques in east Austin with hate spewing bigots in their midst.
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