St Louis police have confirmed that six fires at churches in predominately black neighborhoods near Ferguson occurring over just 10 days have been classified as arson. There have been no injuries and officials don’t yet have a suspect.
“It is arson,” St. Louis Fire Captain Garon Mosby told media outlets, according to the Associated Press. “These [fires] are being intentionally set.”
Mosby said the possibility of a hate crime for religious or racial reasons “is part of the dynamic” in an ongoing joint investigation currently being conducted by the St. Louis Regional Bomb Unit and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The ATF has jurisdiction over fires at all houses of worship.
All the fires took place in predominately black neighborhoods within a three-mile radius of Ferguson, and all were lit at the front doors of the churches.
The first hit the Bethel Non-Denominational Church in Jennings on October 8. Two days later, the New Northside Missionary Baptist, also in Jennings, suffered from fire.
In addition, fires were set at Minerva-St. Augustine Catholic Church on October 14 and New Testament Church of Christ on October 15, and over the weekend there were blazes at the New Life Missionary Baptist Church and Ebenezer Lutheran Church.
“We just can’t understand why someone would go around setting churches on fire,” Alderman Frank Williamson, who attends St. Augustine Catholic Church, told KMOX. “It has us very puzzled.”
Authorities have not released any information about possible motives in the cases and have not found any indication that the churches had received threats, according to KMOX.
Church leaders told the AP that they are focused on healing, rather than speculating on who to blame.
“This is a spiritually sick person,” the Reverend David Triggs, whose New Life Missionary Baptist Church was set on fire on Saturday, told the AP. “This is a sin issue. It’s not a race issue.”
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Damage to New Life Missionary Baptist Church was confined to an exterior wall, the roof, and the doorway where the blaze appeared to have been set. With smoke damage in the interior of the church, the congregation held Sunday’s regular service on folding chairs on the lawn outside the charred house of worship.
“This is alarming because domestic terrorism is alive and well,” David Love, journalist and commentator, told the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch. “It is such a problem that the US Department of Justice recently predicted increases in violent acts by white extremists who are responding to a new reality in which people of color will become a majority in America.”
“It is interesting, and more than coincidence, that St. Louis has also witnessed a great deal of racial tension and violence in light of the events in Ferguson. In an environment which fosters government sponsored racism – police violence against black residents, racial profiling and economic exploitation through a system of court fees amounting to a black debtors’ prisons – it does not take such a stretch of the imagination to consider that some private citizens may feel emboldened to take matters in their own hands.”
The fires in St. Louis come four months after a string of six church fires occurred in the days following the deadly June 17 rampage by a white supremacist, who fatally shot nine people at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Four were in southern states, and some were accidentally started or caused by lightning, but authorities said that three had been the work of arsonists, according to SPLC.
A spike of arsons against black churches in the South during the mid-1990s led to the creation of the National Church Arson Task Force in 1996, which investigated at least 827 arsons, bombings, or attempted bombings at religious buildings that occurred between 1995 and 1999. Of that 827, at least 269 involved black churches, and 185 were located in the south, according to a task force report in 2000.
“We just can’t understand why someone would go around setting churches on fire,” you have got to be kidding me ………….boy they sure are trying their damnedest to get this racial war going…….way too many people …black and white on to the joo manipulation
Will someone please take away the lighters belonging to the cia/mossad?
“Yes, let’s burn some churches down, that’ll get ’em goin’.” “We can slather hatred in numerous ways, burning churches is a good start.”, said one of those scum-sucking, bottom-feeding, lowest form of slime jew bastards responsible for the arsons. Let’s see, who benefits? All part of their plan.
Let the insurance companies investigate. The most common reason to commit arson is to collect insurance claims.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the truth be known , it’s probably one of their own kind
Can’t somebody start burning down synagogues and mosques and especially Catholic churches ?
There is a new self help group called…..
Race Baitors Anonymous. … RBA instead of AA.
High my name is Fred and I’m a race baitor.
( Group alltogether) High Fred!
The 12 steps of zionism:
Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over trying to start race wars, and f***ing over the entire human race and Animals.
Step 2: Came to believe that there is no power greater than ourselves.
Step 3: Made a decision to suck the wealth and life out of the jewnited states of jewmerica [JSJ], and any country we have parasitically infected.
Step 4: Made a fearful and immoral way of life for everyone in our last host country, the JSJ.
Step 5: Admitted to no one the exact nature of what some goy cattle call “wrong.”
Step 6: Were entirely ready to turn everyone we have not killed already, into slaves for us.
Step 7: Humbly – what a humble jew? Fagetaboutit. OY!
Step 8: Made a list of anyone who opposes us and who we intend to blackmail, chemtrail, extort, threaten, intimidate, molest, and kill.
Step 9: Made all of the above evil actions against anyone we could manipulate.
Step 10: Continued to take anything we could from anyone at anytime, as the talmud tells us to do.
Step 11: Sought through our MSM propaganda machine, fear, and inept hoaxes to confiscate all the guns in the jewnited states of jewmerica, so we could begin the genocide we are drooling for, and prayed to satan for the power to carry that out.
Step 12: Having had a demonic awakening as the result of the talmud and zionism, and these steps, we tried to convince the goys that we did not control every aspect of their lives, and to practice unequivocal deceit and amorality in all our affairs.
“Authorities have not released any information about possible motives in the cases…”
What,… they haven’t been handed the script yet?