Man is charged with the attempted firebombing of Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s KC office [View all]
Source: Kansas City Star
Man is charged with the attempted firebombing of Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s KC office
By MARK MORRIS -
The Kansas City Star
09/17/2014 5:23 PM
| Updated: 09/17/2014 8:03 PM
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a 28-year-old Kansas City man with attempting to firebomb the local congressional office of Rep. Emanuel Cleaver on Sept. 11.
Eric G. King of Kansas City will make his initial appearance in federal court Thursday morning. According to court records, King has espoused anti-government, anarchist views on social media.
Kansas City police initially identified King as a suspect because he previously had come under scrutiny during an investigation of anti-government graffiti on a local Bank of America building and the spray painting of Kansas City police vehicles, according to federal court records.
Video surveillance records showed that someone walked up to Cleaver’s office at 101 W. 31st St. at 2:52 a.m. Sept. 11 and threw a hammer through a window.
The person then threw a flaming bottle at the window, but it bounced off the building. The person threw a second bottle at the window and ran from the area. Investigators found no fire damage on or in the building, according to court records.
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