Morning Briefing: Morning of Terror
Morning Briefing: Morning of Terror
On this day in 1995, a right-wing extremist and White supremacist terrorist detonated a bomb that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and killed 168 people.
Morning Briefing: At 9:02am on April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, right-wing extremists and White supremacist terrorist, detonated a truck filled with more than 4,800 pounds of an ammonium nitrate fertilizer, nitromethane, and diesel fuel mixture, in front of the north side of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The explosion killed 168 people, and injured hundreds of people.
Watch the Oklahoma City Bombing's 27th Anniversary Remembrance Ceremony.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland: “Twenty-seven years later, the Justice Department remains vigilant in the face of the threat of domestic terrorism. We believe that the time to address threats of violence is before the violence occurs, so we are putting our resources into disrupting terrorist plots. We also remain committed to holding accountable those who perpetrate such attacks, which are aimed at rending the fabric of our democratic society and driving us apart.”
Statement from Attorney General Merrick B. Garland on the 27th Anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing
Must Reads
Kaleigh Rogers writes that “Big Lie proponents are currently running for secretary of state, governor and Congress. They’re running for school boards, election boards and county clerks. Meanwhile, veteran election officials have been resigning in droves thanks to the death threats and intimidation lobbed at them by those who believe they were complicit in a stolen election.” [FiveThirtyEight]
Patrick Strickland writes that “you don’t have to look to mass murders to see how anti-migrant vigilantism also plagues American communities. On the southern border, militias and other vigilante groups have time and again taken their war to small communities, humanitarians and people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.” [The Dallas Observer]
Mark Joseph Stern writes that “many states will outlaw abortion, some states will permit it, and others will restrict it to limited circumstances. But the tidal wave of draconian laws across the country proves that this forecast is a fantasy.” [Slate]
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