Durham police find explosive device near area of protests

[ellenrr]

Source: local

DURHAM, N.C. — Durham police found an undetonated explosive device late Saturday morning in an area where about 20 protesters were arrested Friday evening.

Officers responded to a call about a suspicious device in the 600 block of Foster Street between West Geer Street and West Corporation Street.

They found an undetonated device – a bottle with a wick and a petroleum-based liquid inside of it.

The device was safely removed from the area, authorities said.




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[Politicalboi]

1. The police that cried Wolf

I wouldn't be surprised if they find that the police planted the "explosive" device. They can't be trusted anymore.

[hopemountain]

3. ^^^ my thoughts, too

hmmm. wonder if there were any surveillance cameras in the area that working?

[valerief]

8. That's unfair. It could have been planted by the FBI or CIA, too. nt

[LiberalElite]

12. or those patriotic heros, the Tea Party

[951-Riverside]

2. "This protest has been canceled for your own safety"

They found an undetonated device – a bottle with a wick and a petroleum-based liquid inside of it.

Uhhh isnt this called a Molotov cocktail?

The way they wrote that article you'd think they found c4. Shame on the Media.

[Jackpine Radical]

15. Yeah, it's a Molotov cocktail.

A crude incendiary device, not an explosive in the ordinary sense. The bottle is filled with thickened gasoline (you can use liquid dish detergent for this purpose) & a fuel-soaked rag is tied around the neck. You light the rag, throw the bottle, & smash it against the side of an invading Army tank. The burning rag ignites the splattered gasoline. Hit a tank with a few of these & they tend to make the tank very hot while burning the oxygen out of the local air.

I suppose they work on other vehicles too.

[olddots]

4. you can bet the protesters will be blamed

By the fair and balanced media whores .

[bemildred]

5. A Molotov cocktail. nt

[VanillaRhapsody]

6. False Flag...

Betcha some bigot that lives there planted it...

Do not put instigation from "civilians" out of the question....they are afraid this is the "race war" they have been telling each other is going to happen...

[awoke_in_2003]

13. or the cop who "found" it. nt

[VanillaRhapsody]

14. Possibly....but did you see those Teabaggers leaving whiskey melon and fried chicken

along with a gauntlet of them jeering at them trying to look like the Klan and saying horrible things to that group just marching quietly to their Capital?

These are people that have been waiting for "a race war"....they would do something like this too...

[jtuck004]

7. They found a bottle of moonshine with a rag stopper in the top. rofl. n/t

[Posteritatis]

9. Molotov cocktails are explosive devices which detonate now? (nt)

[Scootaloo]

10. Petroleum-based liquid" - well I'm glad they sent it to the lab for analysis!

[Jackpine Radical]

16. See #15 for details.

[Scootaloo]

17. I know what a molotov cocktail is, thanks.

I'm just having a laugh at the article trying to "scare it up"

[Jackpine Radical]

18. Yeah. "undetonated"…"explosive device"…

Ooh, woo, fearfearfearfearfearfearfearfearfearfear!

[PeoViejo]

11. Check in your garage

I would bet that you would find everything there to make one.

Cops barking at the Moon again....

[reACTIONary]

22. Under the law a molotov cocktail is classified as a. ..

.....destructive device. And it is. Burning people's property, let alone the threat to lives, is a serious crime.

[PeoViejo]

24. That said

I'm not condoning it by any means, just saying that many people have the resources right in their garage, so it's not something that takes a rocket scientist to make.

Nobody threw it, nothing was burned and no threats were made. Sounds like some Police Street Theater to me.

[reACTIONary]

27. Sounds like....

...someone brought it along "just in case" the opportunity came up, and, luckily, the cops dispersed them before it did.

My experience with movement activity is that there is usually a small but significant number self-destructive and violent people involved - for instance, the so-called black block - and that their destructive tendencies shouldn't be allowed to harm innocent people or discredit the movement as a whole. They certainly should not be provided a lame "cover story". Nobody believes it, and it makes those who propagate it seem either foolish and naive.

[sakabatou]

19. As other DUers have said, it's a molotove cocktail, not an explosive

And I bet the protesters are gonna take the blame.

[McCamy Taylor]

20. Shades of the Haymarket Affair----police plant bomb to discredit and railroad

union organizers in 19th century Chicago. Innocent men executed for the crime of being red. It never ends.

[Brigid]

21. Yep, I thought of Haymarket right away too.

All too often, the is warranted.

[reACTIONary]

23. The fires in Furgison...

...weren't caused by spontaneous combustion. The were caused by incendary devices like this one. After one prominent "protestor" urged the crowd to and “Burn this bitch down”.

I'm glad the cops are taking this threat serriously, and anyone caught with molotov cocktail at a protest should be arrested and jailed immediatly.

[PeoViejo]

25. You sound like a Reactionary.

[KingCharlemagne]

26. Oh, snap! :) - nt

[reACTIONary]

28. Gee, that's....

...punny!

[sendero]

29. Intended to be..

.. a molotov cocktail perhaps. But explosive? I don't think so.