Two men arrested in Utah after bomb found under news vehicle

a year ago by MicroWave to c/news

Men could face terrorism-related and weapons charges after officials say explosive ‘had been lit but failed to function’

Authorities in Utah say two men have been arrested on suspicion of placing an incendiary device under a news media vehicle in Salt Lake City. The bomb didn’t go off.

Police and fire department bomb squads responded on Friday when a suspicious device was found under the vehicle parked near an occupied building.

Investigators determined the bomb “had been lit but failed to function as designed”, according to court records cited by CBS affiliate KUTV.

Xanthobilly 166 points a year ago

Geee, it’s almost as if Republicans are violent and hateful.

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Zier 48 points a year ago

But they are so "pro-life".

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vaultdweller013 23 points a year ago

Charlie Kirk was pro life. He died pretty damned quick.

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aeronmelon 16 points a year ago

Pro-birth.

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kescusay 25 points a year ago

Not even that. If they were pro-birth, they'd at least be in favor of easy access to prenatal healthcare. But they're always opposed to that, too.

They're just pro-pregnancy. They don't give a shit if a woman's pregnancy is viable or not, let alone whether carrying the fetus to term will kill the woman or not.

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III 11 points a year ago

Anti-choice is most appropriate. They don't care if a woman becomes pregnant as long as the woman is subservient.

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DarkAri 2 points a year ago

Pro forced birth.

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Marshezezz 31 points a year ago

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GissaMittJobb 16 points a year ago

Not saying I disagree with the statement, but where did you see that these men were Republicans? I didn't find any reference to any political motivation in the article, but I also didn't read it particularly thoroughly

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possumparty 48 points a year ago

If they were left leaning in any way they would have led with that.

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AbidanYre 18 points a year ago

Sometimes they lead with that even if it's not true.

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RFKJrsBrainworm 12 points a year ago

If they even so much as had a conversation with a left-leaning person news would have led with that especially today

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echodot 1 point a year ago

Well it's the Guardian, not a US rag. So they won't say anything until the info is released.

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dhork 33 points a year ago

I didn't find any reference to any political motivation

I didn't either, but that probably implies they are white christofacists, right? (Or, as the Utah governor put it, "one of us"?)

If their demographic was any different and fit the narratives that the Right is trying to spin on this, it would have been leaked already....

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prettybunnys 8 points a year ago

The Utah governor used “one of us” to mean a member of their local community.

I get why it’s such a fun sound bite but it comes across as dumb as the right yelling let’s go Brandon

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 11 points a year ago

and by a member of their local community he meant a member of their church,

i lived there, i know their dogwhistles

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GissaMittJobb 6 points a year ago

It's probably best not to make assumptions before we know for sure.

Same as the motivations behind Charlie Kirk's shooter should not have been assumed to have been either left or right until we know for sure.

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dhork 14 points a year ago

You're correct, but you are also assuming the media is honest. If I am correct in my assumption that the media (or, at least the mega corporations that own them) are carefully curating favor with the administration, then if these people were "on the right" we'll be told that they are "on the left" anyway.

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prole 8 points a year ago

It’s probably best not to make assumptions before we know for sure.

Right, but we can make educated deductions based on what we know. I tend to agree that (as with the case with Kirk's killer), if any politics left of center were involved, we likely would have heard about it already.

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T00l_shed 7 points a year ago

You are correct, but I will say, their fascist in chief has been demonizing the media, and the right has a track record of domestic terrorism, so while it is possible they were progressive people, chances are they were conservatives

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BarneyPiccolo 11 points a year ago

Not Republican, MAGA. Republicans don't exist anymore. And we know they were MAGA, because the bomb didn't go off, because MAGAs are predictably virtuosically incompetent. If they were Democrats, the bomb would have worked.

Also Republicans are too cowardly to try to bomb anything. MAGAs are cowardly, too, but the are also breath-takingly stupid, so their stupidity often overwhelms their cowardice, and they do remarkably dumb stuff, like try to storm the Capitol.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 4 points a year ago

tomato tomato dude

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credo 12 points a year ago

And incompetent.

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zzx 1 point a year ago

Where are u seeing that they're right wing? I looked everywhere and couldn't find it

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Formfiller 68 points a year ago

What’s going on in Utah?

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Bakkoda 48 points a year ago

Just your normal religious and political oppression.

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UltraMagnus0001 15 points a year ago

Johnny Harris just did a video about his time as a Mormon and how rich the church is

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BarneyPiccolo 10 points a year ago

Average day in Utah, and every other Red state.

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Bakkoda 11 points a year ago

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prole 10 points a year ago

Wait, Jason Segal was in SLC Punk? I've only seen it once, way back in highschool and I must not have known who he was back then. Huh.

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neukenindekeuken 7 points a year ago

SLC punk?

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possumparty 35 points a year ago

American stochastic terrorism

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prole 10 points a year ago

Yep, we're starting to see the results of 40+ years of very dark, very violent propaganda

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UnculturedSwine 26 points a year ago

Mormonism and narcissism. I say this as a former Mormon from Utah. They are not as peaceful as they seem.

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cyberwitch 8 points a year ago

High profile Mormon crime in the past 10 years alone is pretty staggering

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thermal_shock 7 points a year ago

Whole show called American Primeval about the Mormons. Great miniseries.

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Ironfist79 24 points a year ago

Just the usual right wing terrorism.

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whiwake 14 points a year ago

Nothing has changed.

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Tollana1234567 6 points a year ago

too much SALT lakes.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 3 points a year ago

been that way since i been born

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Hector 2 points a year ago

Magic underwear went on sale, they are channeling the strength of the morman faith!

They are one of the most conservative States, they usually rack up near 70% Republican and Libertarians are not an insignificant number of the rest. Even though they claimed to hate the president.

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zd9 54 points a year ago

Hmmm I sure wonder which side these two guys belonged to.......

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Reverendender 29 points a year ago

Definitely liberal democratic socialists. Definitely.

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CubitOom 21 points a year ago

They probably have pro-trans ideologies

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Peter_Arbeitslos 14 points a year ago

Most probably even worse: Anti-car ideologies, even trying to destroy a car

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prole 3 points a year ago

I heard they spray painted a fighter jet 😨😨😨

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jared 10 points a year ago

What was the bomb wearing?

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 6 points a year ago

that van's skirt was way too short

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manuallybreathing 2 points a year ago

The two tried to blow up a car
cars contains transmissions
therefore - this was anti-trans

checkmate

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vga 29 points a year ago

"Had been lit", was it like a stick of dynamite?

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Hector 15 points a year ago

In the guardian one line sort of suggested an incendiary, but then later in searching the house they said explosive material. There is a huge difference between actual explosives and incendiaries. Gasoline and dynamite are completely different animals.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 19 points a year ago

i don't trust the news to get the difference between high explosives, explosives, firebombs, and potato guns.

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ouRKaoS 6 points a year ago

potato guns.

That's obviously a Glock...

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points a year ago

Pretty sure it's an Eye-Point

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ayyy 2 points a year ago

Is there any difference between high and sober explosives other than quantity?

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points a year ago

gotta pack em in fent

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wewbull 3 points a year ago

My guess... It was anfo but they tried to set it off with a bit of string that they lit.

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Zetta 2 points a year ago

i bet thermite

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capital_sniff 1 point a year ago

Probably one of the round ones with the fuse coming out of the top. My understanding from TV is that modern dynamite isn't lit but set off with a plunger or twisty mechanism attached to wires.

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inclementimmigrant 21 points a year ago

Looks like Cox has more of them "one of us" to contend with now.

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Tollana1234567 2 points a year ago

his go to would be, "thier minds have been polluted by transgendered agendas"- SPENCER COX

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ayyy 8 points a year ago

When are they getting invaded with Nazi jackboots?

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WanderWisley 7 points a year ago

I recommend watching “murder among the Mormons” on Netflix.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 3 points a year ago

under the banner of heaven is great too. depicts leaving a cult quite honestly

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HugeNerd 5 points a year ago

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drunkpostdisaster 4 points a year ago

Looks like right wing Muslims playing the smart game and provoking the nazis I to do what they always wanted to do.

Fuck both of them.

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