Edmonds man, 20, charged with arson during Seattle protest

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

EDMONDS — An Edmonds man, charged Wednesday in U.S. District Court with two counts of arson and two more of possessing an unlawful destructive device, is accused of trying to set two police vehicles on fire during a May 30 protest in Seattle.

Kelly Thomas Jackson, 20, was arrested Wednesday and was scheduled to appear in a federal courtroom in Seattle later in the day. He’s accused of tossing Molotov cocktails into one Seattle police car and at another.

The allegations are included in a 23-page complaint written by an FBI special agent assigned to investigate domestic terrorism.

In one instance, Jackson’s accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail inside a patrol car, an unmarked 2017 Ford Explorer with emergency lights, police radios and other law enforcement equipment inside.

“After the bottle entered (the vehicle), flames spread rapidly, almost instantaneously, through the passenger compartment,” according to court papers. That vehicle was parked on Pine Street near Fifth Avenue.

Jackson is also accused of throwing a second Molotov cocktail at the windshield of another police vehicle, a 2016 Ford Explorer. It bounced off and exploded in flames on the sidewalk outside the downtown Seattle Nordstrom store.

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/edmonds-man-charged-with-arson-following-seattle-protests/

If true that's not a very smart thing to do.

[Karadeniz]

1. Wish they'd stated his political bent...I don't recognize the sign on his shirt.