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> New details have been released about last week's fire at the home of Dallas County kidnapping suspect James Phelps, thanks to a report from the Springfield Fire Department.
> Last week, Phelps' house on Moon Valley Road in Lebanon burned down while he was sitting in jail in connection with the disappearance of 33-year-old Cassidy Rainwater.
> The Dallas County Sheriff's Office told media on scene that a suspicious device and a possible tripwire had been found while crews were responding to the fire, so the Springfield Fire Department's bomb squad was called in to help.
> An initial report obtained by the News-Leader from the Springfield Fire Department says the bomb squad discovered two devices on Phelps' property after arriving at the scene of the fire, both of which appeared to be attached to a tripwire.
> At the scene of the fire - which happened a day before Phelps and his co-defendant Timothy Norton had a court appearance - the Dallas County Sheriff's Office told Springfield TV station KOLR10 that the flames resulted in a total loss of Phelps' home.
> The cause of the fire is still under investigation by the Missouri Department of Fire Safety, which could not be reached for comment by press time.
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> Edit: Possible "friendly fire" explanation to explosion injury, thanks to u/BeneficialSand: https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/gylja3/heres_the_context_of_what_actually_happened_last/ftd4edj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
Last night, the Seattle police department used force to reset a barricade that had been advanced towards the police line, near the East precinct in in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Hours later, on twitter, police justified the use of force by claiming officers were attacked with thrown rocks, bottles, and explosives.
They then went to claim that officers were injured by improvised explosives, see: https://twitter.com/SeattlePD/status/1269474731717087233
Included in the tweet were two photos, presumably the "explosives" used against police officers (as they were obviously not rocks or bottles). The objects in the photo are easily identified as candles: https://twitter.com/brooklynmarie/status/1269533645368254464?s=20
Prayer candles were present at these protests and used in previous nights of protest for mourning victims of police brutality. One photo features the lever of a chemical grenade, which had been deployed by police during this event.
This event was well documented by bystanders living in apartments above the contested barricade, there are no signs of explosions or fires, besides those detonated by police: https://twitter.com/AlexandrianCdx/status/1269532797053440000?s=20
Later that evening, Seattle public affairs posted an update on the event, where they do not mention "improvised explosives" but instead they mention "incendiary devices", and provide no details on how police were injured. see: https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2020/06/07/east-precinct-protest-update/
So, are the photos of broken candles in the original SPD tweet meant to portray the "improvised explosives" (loaded term given its war/terrorism connotations) which injured officers that night? If that is the case, is Seattle public relations (and presumably police reports) referring to those same objects as "incendiary devices"? This change in language is interesting because one could argue that a candle is an "incendiary device". It seems apparent that t
... keep reading on reddit ➡https://twitter.com/spccohen/status/1266733491032657927
“A pair of Catskill sisters arrested last night after one of the women allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at NYPD van carrying four officers in 71st pct. The homemade bomb hit windshield but did not ignite. The women were chased down and caught.
Samantha Shader, 26, accused of tossing the incendiary device, charged with four counts of attempted murder of a police officer. Darian Shader, 20, charged with resisting arrest and obstruction of governmental administration. Another protester shared video of incident with cops.”
