I think this is what the parent refers to https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1599253199126683650,
though there is no confirmation that they are behind it, only that they are glad that it happened.
though there is no confirmation that they are behind it, only that they are glad that it happened.
Also, we shouldn't mince words here, this is a terrorist attack on civilian infrastructure for political ends. If this had been done by islamists, we'd call it as such. Instead we play the "gosh well she technically didn't say she did it" and "gosh how can we tell what the motivations might be" games... like, we have a group openly claiming responsibility for the attack here and people want to play the "how can we really know anything?" crap. C'mon.
Hopefully they will be able to find the people behind this attack though. And if it turns out to be the person above I hope they will be stuck down with both terror and hate crime.
That being said, I also wouldn't give too much faith to the police. Police as an institution have been historically LGBTQ-unfriendly, and have perpetrated anti-LGBTQ violence on an institutional level in the past.
I’ll wait for some actual investigation before jumping to conclusions.
For many people, myself included, who grew up in the country, the power going out is not a big deal, and was a pretty regular occurrence. I say this not to downplay it, but because it's easy to see how someone could see the power go out while something they didn't approve of was happening, and feel happy about it, without really considering how big of a deal the outage is for people in the city.
I could be wrong of course, but the most single explanation is that this person just saw it as karma, not that they somehow knew something
This doesn't mean she had any foreknowledge of the recent events, of course, but her comment doesn't read as an off-the-cuff casual reaction either. She's surely aware of the impression it would create thanks to her training and real-world experience with political activism.
I guess I'd cross off "detective" as fall back career
Most crimes that make the news have a few dozen nutjobs calling in claiming responsibility. People will go to great lengths to get attention. And we're already talking about social media posts here...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/emily-rainey-fort-bragg-captain...
After reading that article, I do think they qualify for the epithet "nutter".