Wednesday, December 30, 2020

If Only The Authorities Had Known


Imagine the police response if Anthony Quinn Warner had been Black or had change his name from Ahmed Abbas.  There would have been an overwhelming militarized raid on his home.  Instead the report went into the "white guy probably just a local militia member" file (also know as "friends of the police").

Sixteen months before Anthony Quinn Warner's RV exploded in downtown Nashville on Christmas morning, officers visited his home in Antioch after his girlfriend reported that he was making bombs in the vehicle, according to documents obtained by The Tennessean. 

On Friday, 63-year-old Warner blew up a city block, police say, about 6:30 a.m. on Second Avenue outside an AT&T switch facility. The bomb caused massive destruction to 41 downtown buildings and crippled telecommunication systems throughout the Southeast over the weekend.

In the aftermath, The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Warner was "not on our radar" prior to the bombing. But a Metro Nashville Police Department report from August 2019 shows that local and federal authorities were aware of alleged threats he had made.

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