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SEATTLE, Wash. - A 25-year-old Tacoma woman was arrested Thursday for allegedly lighting five unmarked Seattle police vehicles on fire during riots at the end of last month.
Margaret Aislinn Channon faces federal arson charges in connection with the incident, according to U.S. Attorney Brian Moran.
This defendant was captured by multiple cameras using an accelerant, lit like a blowtorch, to start fires in five vehicles, Moran said in a statement.
The alleged arsons happened on May 30 around the area of Sixth Avenue and Pine Street in downtown Seattle. Local police abandoned the nearby East Precinct building, at 12th Avenue and Pine Street, earlier this week following violent protests that followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25.
Demonstrators have moved in to the surrounding neighborhood and declared it a cop-free area that they call the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/washington-state-woman-arrested-accused-of-setting-5-police-vehicles-ablaze-in-george-floyd-riots?fbclid=IwAR1z5yk-crAfjNvy8mn5zq_-B3_Asw-tGvlN7hA48w2nz_SSEcK6tB-P6dE
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Unmarked is interesting though. Did she know?
Midnight Writer
(21,548 posts)It will be interesting to learn this woman's background.
brush
(53,474 posts)who was systematically walking down a block with the AutoZone story and smashing every window. They all had on black clothing and face coverings to conceal who they are.
My guess is the funding comes from the right to make the Black Lives Matter movement look bad. And of course to blame it on black people and/or antifa.
maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)My guess is that the gal from Tacoma is Black Bloc and pretty bad at following a basic rule to obscure her identity: hide your tats.
My guess the window breaker in MPLS is an Agent Provocateur. I saw a post that claimed his GF recognized her respirator and he was a St. Paul PO.
brush
(53,474 posts)I don't. Someone/entity is funding the vandalism and arson.
maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)How much funding does one need for accelerants and a hammer?
And who would be funding this? John Zerzan? I see nothing to indicate that she is an Agent Provocateur, if that is your contention.
I reject the notion of funded left-wing protest until I see some evidence.
Doodley
(8,976 posts)csziggy
(34,120 posts)The pictures are, uhm, interesting. I don't have an Instagram account so it ended up cutting off my access.
FreeState
(10,553 posts)uponit7771
(90,225 posts)csziggy
(34,120 posts)When I searched for "Margaret Aislinn Channon" the Instagram account was listed with her name attached. Google result:
www.instagram.com maggotslaw
127 Followers, 95 Following, 1
Wonder if there is a connection to that old Twitter account?
I've had a bunch of things going on today so just now got back to the computer.
Hunh - she was a missing person in Presidio, Texas, last year:
We are happy to report that Margaret Channon has been found safe and is being reunited with her family! Thank you to the hard working volunteers who worked to bring this family back together!
Margaret Channon, age 24, was last seen on February 11, 2019 in Presidio,Texas It is uncertain what Margaret was wearing; however, she is known to wear black and red almost exclusively. Margaret has many tattoos, including WAIF on fingers, answer phone on right wrist, pie slice image on left thigh. She also has scars on her arms.
https://www.texasequusearch.org/missing-margaret-aislinn-channon-presidio-tx-21119/
The WAIF tattoo was one of the things that helped the police identify her according to the article in the OP!
keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)Another Trumpster/vandal pretending to be a protester?
MagickMuffin
(15,892 posts)She be in big trouble, oopsie!
KentuckyWoman
(6,666 posts)In this instance, that factoid matters