Multiple Philadelphia police vehicles set on fire across the city overnight

[durablend]

Source: FOX29-Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police say a number of Philadelphia police vehicles were set on fire in four different locations early Monday morning.

Police have described the suspect as a white male wearing a flannel, backpack, and bandana. He is also said to have been riding a white Cannondale bicycle.

Investigators say most of the fires started at the vehicles' tires. ...

Read more: https://www.fox29.com/news/multiple-philadelphia-police-vehicles-set-on-fire-across-the-city-overnight

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"White male" ... one of Trump's goons starting shit?

[Dan]

1. My thought too

[Thekaspervote]

2. White male...hummm?!

[Garion_55]

3. Jared cushner giving trump a reason to send in the feds

Those bastard's

[Bayard]

4. A flannel what?

Nobody wears flannel this time of year unless they're hiding body armor. A trump trooper.

[Merlot]

10. "...wearing a flannel" stood out. They want to be perceived as something

Surprised they weren't wearing a black t-shirt that said Antifa.

[IronLionZion]

5. They want an excuse to send feds into another blue city in a swing state

to start some shit. This is all about the election and making paranoid rural conservatives think Democrats are destroying cities in anarchy and chaos. There have been lots of memes online about rural people shooting rioters, running them over with trucks, feeding them to pigs, etc. Because they like fantasies with very low probability of occurrence.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. I expect WH goon squad attempting to instigate shit nationwide right before the election

since my city was on the "list". Our mayor Jim Kenney, continually struggles to hold his tongue from doing an outright expletive-filled anti-45 rant, although he has gotten close a few times.

[CanonRay]

7. Pretext to bring his goon squads in

[onetexan]

13. i don't doubt it. I'm starting to think these protests are giving the Idiot's administration reason

to bring out the goon squad. Best everyone stays home and disband these protests till after the general election. We don't want to give them any more reason to hurt people and have these unlawful occupy our cities as a cover to steal the election come November.

[Lucky Luciano]

8. Reichstag shit.

[NewDayOranges]

9. The suspect could just as likely be a disgruntled cop!

Or Trump agent on the DHS payroll...

[Aristus]

11. What did the vehicles do to provoke it?

What were they doing in that part of town at that time of night?

Why didn't the vehicles fight back?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

16. White vehicles can go anywhere they like at any time.

See post 15, below.

Police believe the vehicles were stoned on carburetor cleaner and therefore offered no resistance.

KY.........

[Initech]

12. Damn, we really are living the end of Joker.

[RobinA]

14. Really, It Could Be

anybody. Somebody provoking reaction, BLM protester, kid thinking it's cool to burn police cars like the protesters did a month ago... I'm sure they'll get him or her. At least one of the cars was on a major street lined with busy businesses. They've all got to have cameras rolling.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

15. Not good optics in this photo....

Police van blocking a fire hydrant......

Torched police van at 7th and Chestnut:


Credit: ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / Staff Photographer

Philadelphia Inquirer

From: https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/philadelphia-police-cars-burned-fires-center-city-20200727.html

Snip.....

On North 39th Street, authorities said they determined the cruiser was set on fire with a Molotov cocktail placed on the hood of the driver’s side.

In the later incidents, police said they identified a suspect using University of Pennsylvania Police security cameras. In surveillance footage, a man wearing a flannel shirt and a backpack was seen leaving the area on a white Cannondale bike, authorities said.

It was unclear whether police considered him a suspect in all four incidents or just the two in West Philadelphia.

KY

[malachi]

17. There's police mini station at 7th and Chestnut. One block from independence Hall.

Cameras everywhere. They'll catch him, if they want to.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

19. No update in the Inquirer today.

I wonder what they mean by "identified a suspect".........

KY

[marble falls]

18. Was he wearing a Tiki shirt?