Suspect accused of setting fire outside NYC federal building ^⁠98%

7/21/2026, 12:56:25 AM

Topics: Video

BS Summary: This video contains 21 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Availability Heuristic, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 44.1% saturation with 109 hits. Analysis detected 936 faulty-reasoning hits from 247 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 97.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠98% (432 of 18,897 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 97.70% of the video peer group.

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247 words

Tonight, a federal investigation into this terrifying scene in New York City.

Video from witnesses showing a man pouring a liquid outside a federal building home to an immigration and customs office igniting a massive blaze.

>> To actually witness it was definitely alarm.

>> Investigators say the suspect ignited an apparent bundle of fireworks, fired an airsoft rifle, and lit this fire in an incident that injured three people this morning.

You can see him lobbing something towards the entrance before he is tackled.

Other angles show a scuffle with officers, some with weapons drawn, emerging from the smoky entrance, then escorting the suspect in all black and handcuffed away.

The FBI identifying the suspect as 43-year-old Andrew Arabaka.

>> He did say he was targeting the building and he was okay if he hurt or killed people going in and out of the building.

>> Are you investigating this as a possible act of terrorism? We're invest we're collecting the evidence and we we know there were anti-government and anti-American statements made.

>> Investigators in hazmat suits now combing through the aftermath recovering the FBI says axes, a machete, knives, and a cart with a sign reading ice off our streets as tensions have flared near ICE facilities nationwide.

Investigators say the suspect is a US Army veteran who has had several encounters with law enforcement, but nothing to this degree.

Charges are still being determined.

Confirmation Bias

22.7%

Anchoring Bias

7.3%

Availability Heuristic

34.8%

Representativeness Heuristic

9.7%

Hindsight Bias

Overconfidence Bias

14.6%

Framing Effect

34%

Loss Aversion

Status Quo Bias

Sunk Cost Effect

Optimism Bias

Pessimism Bias

Negativity Bias

44.1%

Self-Serving Bias

Fundamental Attribution Error

10.5%

Actor-Observer Bias

In-Group Bias

Out-Group Homogeneity Bias

8.9%

Halo Effect

Horn Effect

Dunning-Kruger Effect

Recency Bias

Primacy Effect

Blind-Spot Bias

Ad Hominem

Straw Man

Appeal to Authority

23.9%

False Dilemma

11.3%

Slippery Slope

Circular Reasoning

Hasty Generalization

8.9%

Red Herring

Bandwagon

Appeal to Emotion

42.5%

Begging the Question

11.3%

Post Hoc (False Cause)

15%

Tu Quoque

Burden of Proof

31.6%

Appeal to Nature

Composition/Division

Anecdotal

30%

No True Scotsman

Ambiguity (Equivocation)

3.2%

Gambler’s Fallacy

Middle Ground

Personal Incredulity

Special Pleading

Genetic Fallacy

Unattributed Quote

10.5%

Quote-first Misdirection

Biased Writer Voice

Indoctrination

Politically Left Leaning Bias

Politically Right Leaning Bias

Attempt to Sell a Product or Service

247 words analyzed.

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Suspect accused of setting fire outside NYC federal building ^⁠98%

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Suspect accused of setting fire outside NYC federal building ^⁠98%