Early Wednesday morning an outside camera caught a man throwing a rock through the front door of the Travis County Democratic Party office on East 6th Street.

“Comes back up with what appears to be an incendiary device and places it inside the building and then the fire starts to ignite,” said Austin arson investigator Captain Brandon Jennings.

Jennings says the Molotov cocktail could have easily done more damage if it hadn't just been set down inside the door.

“The use of an incendiary device like this is typically to throw it at something. Once you light it and the liquid comes out and catches on fire, the fire spreads upward and outward and does more damage,” said Jennings.

Building damage was also minimized because people at the bar across the street spotted the first flames and put them out with a fire extinguisher.

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/afd-investigating-possible-arson-at-travis-co-democratic-office

  • culpritus [any]
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    3 years ago

    No one was in the office at the time, Travis County Democratic Party Chairwoman Katie Naranjo said, but the incident was caught on security cameras. A note was left with a politically motivated threat, Naranjo said.

    “Anyone who wears an American flag as a bandana and then throws a Molotov cocktail ... into a building and leaves a note, a threatening note, is a coward,” she said.

    Authorities did not release the contents of the note.

    So the molotov was 'thrown' or 'placed' in different accounts of the incident, but it didn't shatter. The fire was extinguished by bystanders almost immediately. Really wondering what is in that note.

          • Alaskaball [comrade/them]M
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            3 years ago

            I mean hogs don't really do any street action so can you blame 'em?

            Lmao it's fucking hilarious if he actually did gently put down the Molly like a yankee candle to burn a dnc building.

          • Sushi_Desires
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            3 years ago

            the comedic value would have been off the chart if he had that over-the-top dynamite plunger thing

          • adolescentrefusesack [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            The only logic I can come up with is that he thought the heat would cause the bottle to melt or rupture, and then the liquid and flames would spread.

            But I think that's applying logic in a place where one shouldn't.

    • IDF_Summer_Camp [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Really wondering what is in that note.

      Knowing APD we probably won't find out. They didn't release the Austin bomber's manifesto, and instead told us "don't worry nothing political to see here!"

      The Austin bomber was a member of a Christian survivalist group called Righteous Injection Of Truth (RIOT).