BREAKING: Bombings were domestic terrorism, Austin police chief says

[kpete]

took them long enough. what ye say heir trump?



9:55 a.m. update: When he looks back at what the Austin bomber “did to our community, he was domestic terrorist for what he did to us,” Interim Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said at a panel discussion Thursday that focused on how police, the media and the community responded to the Austin bombings.

“This is a distinction i wanted to make today,” Manley said. Knowing the case would be in the legal system at some point, he said, he was trying to be sensitive about the terminology he used during the investigation.

“I was so focused that we put a stop to it,” the chief said, but now he says he comfortable calling the bombings domestic terrorism “for what it did to our community.”

About 100 people attended the forum hosted by KUT-FM at the George Washington Carver Museum in East Austin.


https://www.statesman.com/news/local/today-austin-police-chief-joins-kut-panel-discuss-bombings-racial-climate/6Gg2VytROVBI8e4ft5jwmJ/

[exboyfil]

1. But was it radical Christian terrorism

Getting that phrasing is very important.

[Angry Dragon]

2. Good call

[mercuryblues]

3. I hope there is

something in his video manifest that can support that. legally. I know the guy is dead, via a suicide bomb, but this country needs to grapple with the domestic terrorists, instead of labeling them as kids who are trying to find their way or lone wolves.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Police Chief must want early retirement

Can't be tellin' truth in public like that

[ProudLib72]

8. "Interim police chief"

Makes me think he doesn't need to be as careful in his phrasing because he knows his job doesn't depend on it.

[Drunken Irishman]

11. Well any interim role could turn permanent. So, good on him if he's risking that.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. In related news, white christian terrorists using tRump tactic of besmirching FBI as a defense. nt

[Gothmog]

6. Water is also wet

[Canoe52]

7. +1

[Still In Wisconsin]

9. Silly policeman... the perpetrator was white and Christian, so therefore just a mental health issue

It's only terrorism if a muslim/foreigner/brown person does it. just in case.

[LiberalLovinLug]

10. To be fair, both are mental health issues ultimately

Whether you strap bombs into yourself or set your bombs off in public places and believe you are doing God's/Allah's work, you have mental health issues

[ananda]

12. Good. That's exactly what it was!

nt

[IronLionZion]

13. Admission is the first step towards tackling this problem

As if white people don't have political agendas, just the inexplicable will to kill. That's much scarier if you think about it.