Some dumbass got a capital letter dose of KARMA as he realized he accidentally lit himself on fire just to make a political statement. Whoever torched the unmarked police car in the parking lot of the Supreme Court wasn’t very smart. He’s in custody at the hospital but still in critical condition so hasn’t been saying a whole lot. Witnesses saw someone else running away and it isn’t clear if a second suspect is on the loose.
Fire engulfed the vehicle
Right around 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Capitol Hill in Washington was rocked by explosions. One congressional staffer, enjoying a lunch break with friends on the lawn of the Capitol “witnessed the fire and response, recounted hearing a series of loud bangs and saw flames licking the underside of the car, before the fire engulfed the vehicle,” PoliceOne reports. “A second later, the whole thing was literally a fireball.”
Videos quickly appeared on Twitter. At 2 p.m., government staffers “received by email an initial Capitol Police alert to avoid the area.” It didn’t take long for police and fire units to arrive but the liberal snowflakes “were still unnerved as the car burned and explosive bangs rang out.” It seems they aren’t as thrilled with anarchy as they claim. “It was on fire and periodically exploding to the point where we got a little nervous.”
The anonymous staffer thought about making a run for it but decided to stick around in case a statement “would be helpful.” As firefighters battled the blaze, “explosions continued.” The fire was so intense that “an adjacent car, also belonging to the Supreme Court Police, suffered damage too. Needless to say, the initial car “was completely burned.”
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A mysterious running man
Supreme Court Police diligently took statements from several on-scene witnesses to the fire, “including a woman who said she saw a man drop something through the car window and then take off running.” Other witnesses confirmed a running man but also were quick to point out that “they weren’t sure if the man who ran was running because he was involved or out of fear.” One witness states, “I heard someone shriek and run away right after the fireball caught my eye. I saw a flash but unfortunately didn’t see enough to be able to identify them. They police we gave a statement to did say they had a white man in custody who was burned.”
Police guarantee that the man who poured the “accelerant” and flicked his Bic wasn’t running anywhere. “The individual suffered burns in the process. He was taken into custody by Supreme Court Police and was transported by ambulance for treatment of his injuries,” Kathy Arberg, public information officer for the court, relates. The staffer recalled “clearly hearing the Supreme Court Police say there was a man on the ground, badly burned, who they thought had poured gasoline on the car and set it on fire.”
The arsonist’s motives are totally unknown and it’s not clear which side of the political spectrum he represents. All that the public knows for sure is that “police were seen treating someone at the scene and that ‘the person was placed in an ambulance and had been covered in silver burn blankets after being stripped of their clothes.'”