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Arson attack damages Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Burlington office (vtdigger.org)

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An arsonist set fire to the door of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Burlington office Friday morning, briefly trapping staff inside, according to police.

Nobody was injured, authorities said, and the senator was not present at the time.

According to the Burlington Police Department, an unidentified man entered the vestibule outside Sanders’ third-floor office on Church Street at around 10:45 a.m. and sprayed “an apparent accelerant” on the door. The man lit the accelerant, prompting “a significant fire” to engulf Sanders’ office door and a portion of the vestibule, police said in a press release. The man then fled.

The blaze impeded staff members’ egress from the office, police said, “endangering their lives.” The building’s sprinkler system extinguished the fire. Firefighters and police officers evacuated Sanders’ office and those nearby.

The Burlington Police Department released an image of a man it identified as a suspect in an alleged arson attack on Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Burlington office on Friday, April 5, 2024. Photo courtesy of the Burlington Police Department

Police said they had not apprehended a suspect and had not identified a motive. They released photos of a man they described as a suspect and asked for the public’s help in identifying him.

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[–] JungleJim@sh.itjust.works 19 points 9 months ago

Cowards, attacking the best politician America has been able to come up with for the last however many decades.

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 7 points 9 months ago

Terrorist.

[–] sonori@beehaw.org 6 points 9 months ago

Honestly, i’m glad whatever nut did this chose such an ineffective method as trying to burn down an office door in front of a fire sprinkler given they could have just gone to a sporting goods store, got an AR15, and actually killed a lot of good people.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

What TF is wrong with people? Bernie is like the only politician actually looking out for the American people, not on the take, not corrupt, and striving towards a better America. So of course that's who the crazies attack. It's always the best of us who get attacked, never the worst.