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08 Dec 2023, 3:49 am

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth home doused in gasoline in arson attempt, 1 arrested

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Two off-duty New York City Police officers and two Utah tourists are being credited with helping to stop the intentional burning of what Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum a "jewel of the city."

Atlanta police officers rushed to the Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth home in Atlanta just after 5:45 p.m. on Thursday after reports of vandalism in progress.

Chief Schierbaum says two tourists from Utah saw the woman dousing the plants, porch, and the front door of the home with what smelled like gasoline. The bystanders told officers they intervened when they saw her try to ignite a lighter.

Meanwhile, two off-duty NYPD officers visiting the area were able to detain the woman until APD officers arrived at the scene. Video shared with FOX 5 shows a woman being detained on the ground by officers.

Atlanta Fire Department Battalion Chief Jerry DeBerry says with the fuel down, it could have been just a matter of seconds before the structure caught fire.

The fire department’s HAZMAT team will work to clean up the gasoline spill.

The name of the woman has not been released, but Chief Schierbaum says she was 26 years old. The chief says investigators are speaking with the person’s family to determine their mental health.

She is being charged with criminal attempt to commit arson and criminal attempt to damage government property. APD is also working with the FBI and National Park Service. Federal charges could be possible.

The home, which is located along Auburn Avenue just blocks from the King Center, King National Historical Park, and the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, has been undergoing renovations for the past couple of weeks.


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10 Dec 2023, 12:49 am

Why? Why would she do such a thing?


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10 Dec 2023, 2:33 am

When I first heard the reports it was just a "person" doused the place with gasoline."

So I imagined the perp to be a White guy.

But last night I saw the vid someone took of her in the act. She is a Black female.


https://youtu.be/IpQiS-tbOhM



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10 Dec 2023, 9:38 am

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Why? Why would she do such a thing?

Maybe the woman believed the allegations about MLK found here. Trigger Warning: SA



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10 Dec 2023, 9:51 am

I've heard those claims too. ^
Very sad.


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10 Dec 2023, 10:01 am

Hopefully, if that's the case and if the woman experienced sexual violence herself, she will be given a lighter sentence. If I was fully convinced that the claims were true, I wouldn't feel great about the fact that people tour his house to pay homage to the man, not that I'd be inclined to burn it down. Fires can spread and harm innocent people.



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10 Dec 2023, 10:03 am

If it's true, I wonder if he has children he didn't support or acknowledge.


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10 Dec 2023, 10:38 am

Suspect identified in attempted arson of MLK Jr’s birth home as decorated US Navy Veteran, Fox News reports

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The woman accused of attempted arson at the birth home of Martin Luther King Jr. is a decorated military veteran, Fox News reports.

Laneisha Shantrice Henderson, 26, is a veteran surface warfare specialist of the U.S. Navy and received a national defense service medal and good conduct medal during her service among other awards, according to Fox News.

Henderson has been charged with second-degree attempted arson and interference with government property.

A police report stated that Henderson was taken to a hospital for a psychological evaluation, according to the Associated Press.


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10 Dec 2023, 10:55 am

TwilightPrincess wrote:
Aspiegaming wrote:
Why? Why would she do such a thing?

Maybe the woman believed the allegations about MLK found here. Trigger Warning: SA

One strange thing I notice about those allegations: According to the above-linked article, "The FBI was trying to gather negative information about King in hopes of using it to discredit him." But, if that was the aim, why wasn't the info released earlier?


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11 Dec 2023, 5:44 am

Mona Pereth wrote:
One strange thing I notice about those allegations: According to the above-linked article, "The FBI was trying to gather negative information about King in hopes of using it to discredit him." But, if that was the aim, why wasn't the info released earlier?


They didn't need it,
First they used the tapes to try and blackmail him to commit suicide
https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/12/7 ... fbi-letter

When that didn't work they had him assassinated (allegedly).



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11 Dec 2023, 5:48 am

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Suspect identified in attempted arson of MLK Jr’s birth home as decorated US Navy Veteran, Fox News reports
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The woman accused of attempted arson at the birth home of Martin Luther King Jr. is a decorated military veteran, Fox News reports.

Laneisha Shantrice Henderson, 26, is a veteran surface warfare specialist of the U.S. Navy and received a national defense service medal and good conduct medal during her service among other awards, according to Fox News.

Henderson has been charged with second-degree attempted arson and interference with government property.

A police report stated that Henderson was taken to a hospital for a psychological evaluation, according to the Associated Press.


Probably hearing voices in her head



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13 Dec 2023, 12:43 am

Isn't that the dumbest thing you've ever heard?


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16 Dec 2023, 6:41 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:
I've heard those claims too. ^
Very sad.


So that's it then, all human beings are scumbags no matter what perceived positive things they've gotten credit for.

Mother Theresa wouldn't let people dying of illness take so much as a freaking Tylenol because of her religious beliefs that people needed to suffer.

Dr. Suess was pedophobic and cheated on his terminally ill wife. Also his early cartoons and a few of his books had some really racist stereotypes, but he probably wasn't really any more racist than most white people were in his day.

Christopher Columbus was a genocidal maniac who killed and enslaved native people. He also wasn't the first European to sail to North America and most people in his day did believe the world was round.

I guess next thing is finding out Leonardo da Vinci practiced cannibalism or something. :roll:



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16 Dec 2023, 7:29 pm

Gandhi the prophet Mohammed, Michael Jackson and Thomas Jefferson have been accused of being paedophiles,

George Washington twisted the US constitution so he could keep slaves.

Sir Winston Churchill was responsible for the deaths of millions of bengalis who died of starvation during WWII when food was diverted to the british war effort.

Leonardo da Vinci was into young men, it was common for men of the aristocratic class in Da Vinci's time to to seek personal gratification from what we would call children today.

Our heroes are not always the "great men" portrayed to us through books and the media



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16 Dec 2023, 7:36 pm

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George Washington twisted the US constitution so he could keep slaves.



The US Constitution is enthusiastically pro slavery.

Nobody had to "twist" it to keep slaves.

What kinda drugs are you doing?



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16 Dec 2023, 7:44 pm

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The US Constitution is enthusiastically pro slavery.

Nobody had to "twist" it to keep slaves.

What kinda drugs are you doing?


You do know all the founding fathers and authors of the constitution were slave owners. Washington famously enacted laws around freedom for slaves and then flouted his own laws to keep his slaves. When you look at this aspect of his life he was a despicable individual.