Man accused of setting fire outside NYC federal building ^⁠99%

7/21/2026, 4:47:40 AM

Topics: Video

BS Summary: This video contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Confirmation Bias, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 53.4% saturation with 132 hits. Analysis detected 902 faulty-reasoning hits from 247 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 98.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠99% (333 of 19,233 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 98.30% of the video peer group.

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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

36.8%

Anchoring Bias

Availability Heuristic

53.4%

Representativeness Heuristic

12.1%

Hindsight Bias

Overconfidence Bias

15.8%

Framing Effect

12.1%

Loss Aversion

Status Quo Bias

Sunk Cost Effect

Optimism Bias

Pessimism Bias

Negativity Bias

49.4%

Self-Serving Bias

Fundamental Attribution Error

Actor-Observer Bias

In-Group Bias

Out-Group Homogeneity Bias

Halo Effect

4.5%

Horn Effect

Dunning-Kruger Effect

Recency Bias

Primacy Effect

15.4%

Blind-Spot Bias

Ad Hominem

Straw Man

Appeal to Authority

31.2%

False Dilemma

Slippery Slope

Circular Reasoning

Hasty Generalization

24.3%

Red Herring

Bandwagon

Appeal to Emotion

47.8%

Begging the Question

6.9%

Post Hoc (False Cause)

15%

Tu Quoque

Burden of Proof

13.4%

Appeal to Nature

Composition/Division

Anecdotal

13.8%

No True Scotsman

Ambiguity (Equivocation)

11.3%

Gambler’s Fallacy

Middle Ground

Personal Incredulity

Special Pleading

Genetic Fallacy

Unattributed Quote

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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Man accused of setting fire outside NYC federal building ^⁠99%