ABC News99%
Suspect allegedly sets off 'incendiary device' outside NYC federal building 97%
7/21/2026, 12:29:39 PM
BS Summary: This video contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Hasty Generalization, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 37.6% saturation with 135 hits. Analysis detected 1,183 faulty-reasoning hits from 359 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 94.6% and a BS Rank of 97% (709 of 19,233 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 96.30% of the video peer group.
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>> This is what the FBI called ananti-government attack. Watch a man
douse a stairwell at the federalbuilding in Lower Manhattan withgasoline, ignite it with fireworks, andrun off, leaving flames and black smoke
climbing the facade. From this angle,you can see the suspect throwing anobject into the inferno, then runningaway wearing a combat-style helmet. Oneofficer immediately trying to wrestlehim to the ground, and thenan explosion before the suspect,identified as 43-year-old former Armyprivate Andrew Arrabaca, is tackled at the scenethe scene and taken into federalcustody.
>> Fireworks have been extinguished. Thedetainee has been taken away by federalpolice.
>> The building was attacked.
Mr. Arrabaca was looking to injurepeople and harm people.
>> The FBI said the suspect fired multiple roundspreoccupied? rounds from a pellet gun toward thebuilding before dumping gasoline from anorange bucket.
>> Well, I heard a a series of very loudexplosions. I actually thought they werenot fireworks because they were markedlylouder than normal fireworks.
>> Authorities say both the bucket and twoairsoft guns were recovered at the scen along with other items that led them toconclude Arrabaca came with badintentions.
>> He had two axes, a hammer, a machete,and threeknives,fixed-blade knives, six uh incendiarydevices or fireworks, and he had someother destructive items.
>> The alleged attacker was an Army soldierfrom 2001 to 2005 and worked as a mechanic on Patriot missile systems.
>> He did say he was targeting thebuilding, and he was okay if he hurt orkilled people going in and out of thebuilding, whether they were federalemployees or civilians.
>> The building houses immigration courtand has been a focal point of protestover President Trump's immigrationcrackdown.
Among the three people hurtin Monday's incident, an immigrantwaiting for a naturalization hearing andtwo government employees. Police saidthey found signs the suspect wasanti-ICE.
>> Also affixed to the suspect's cart was a sign reading ICE off our streets.
>> And the Homeland Security Secretary saidthe suspect appeared to suffer frommental illness. Charges are now pending.
>> Yeah, but you know that is a high-traffic, high-profile location herein. They're lucky no not more peoplewere hurt.
>> Absolutely. Thank you, Erin.
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