DALLAS (AP) — Police detained a “ranting” man accused of crashing a pickup truck into a Fox affiliate television station building Wednesday morning in downtown Dallas during a live newscast.
KDFW posted details on Facebook showing photos of the front of the vehicle rammed into windows near an entrance. The man paced and scattered numerous handwritten papers outside. He was not able to enter the building and was soon arrested.
Here’s a closer look at the crash, papers and “suspicious bag” the bomb squad was investigating after a man repeatedly crashed into FOX4 early this morning. https://bit.ly/2wO8zVO
Posted by FOX 4 News on Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Anchors who continued on the air through the 7 a.m. newscast, despite the crash, say nobody was hurt. The truck hit an unoccupied administrative side of the building before office workers arrived for the day.
A KDFW statement says “a man crashed a truck into the side of our building this morning” and “jumped out and started ranting.”
Anchor and reporter Brandon Todd, who witnessed the man pacing outside the station before he was arrested, said the man was yelling about “high treason,” and that he believed he had clearly been wronged and that someone was trying to kill him.
“It’s not real clear to what his message was,” according to Todd.
The man started crying when police took him into custody, Todd said.
Police haven’t replied to phone messages seeking further details, including a possible motive. A remote-controlled police robot later Wednesday searched the area near the station, which was closed to the usual downtown business foot and vehicle traffic, following the incident.
A future Farmer’s insurance ad?
Can’t help feeling sorry for him; those scrawls seem pretty hateful*, but they’re so broken that I just hope he finds help. I’m glad nobody was hurt.
I can decipher “high treason witches mob of females mob of sheriffs,” “we need the calvary” “they tryed to kill me” and “Tom Reedy is a paid off ringer,” and also that someone Goldstein somethinged everyone in town. It’s all kind of darkly fascinating and I feel a bit ghoulish now.
(And also a bit silly for how long I spent squinting at that photo, because there’s a much clearer shot of the page on the Fox website. And then I feel even more silly because I have now visited a Fox website.)
The better kind of crazy without the automatic weapons fire.
I suppose we’ll have to wait for reports of his race/skin color to know whether he’s a terrorist or was suffering mental illness/some sort of breakdown.
Don’t feel that way. I go almost every day. Know thy enemy.
EDIT: I just went to Faux News’ website myself and there’s nothing on the front page about this, so I’m guessing it’s going to come out that there’s some inconvenient info on the way, such as “crazed white sovereign citizen with mental illness pushed over the edge by Faux News propaganda” or something…or at least, it’s not usable as their “oh look, it’s always the liberals who are crazed and violent, 'specially the brown ones” because otherwise they’d be all over it.