… Law enforcement sources told CBS News that the Cybertruck was rented to Matthew Alan Livelsberger, an active duty U.S. Army servicemember who was serving in Germany but was on leave in Colorado at the time of the incident. CBS News spoke to two relatives of Livelsberger who were unaware of any involvement in the incident, but who confirmed he had rented a Cybertruck. One relative told CBS News that Livelsberger’s wife had not heard from him in several days.
McMahill said gasoline canisters, camp fuel canisters and large firework mortars were found in the back of the vehicle after the explosion, which occurred about 15 seconds after the vehicle pulled in front of the building. It’s still unclear how the explosives were ignited, he said.
No, it wasn’t “terrorism” but America loves throwing that word around because we all get a hard-on for hating people and witch hunts. They also claim Luigi was making some terrorism, except a focused killing of one person, I believe, is simply called a murder.
As another mentioned, Occam’s razor, but, a different Occam perhaps.
It was a protest, much like monks who immolate themselves have done in the past. Although kinda glad he shot himself, as burning alive does not sound like a fun way to protest.
Evidence:
Protest against where America is headed or something around that, but it was definitely meant as simply a message, not a mass-killing, not terrorism.
Hell, even add in a dash of Clark County’s (Las Vegas) election results have been highly questioned among all the swing states, although that is a complete stretch leaving Occam’s razor territory and should be disregarded as such.
Had they wanted to harm a large group of people, they would have at least driven it into the entrance and torched the car in the lobby, not parked it outside.
LEO likely has a good picture of everything going on throughout the trip leading up to the fire. Those cars harvest everything. They are connected to AT&T and broadcast telematics the whole time they are on, and also while “off.” When they are off, they record and transmit video footage from all the cameras on the car back to Tesla’s cloud. Tesla has, likely, a very accurate picture of everything that happened with that car up until it burned, unless the dude disabled the cellular modem.
The definition of terrorism is using fear of violence as a political motivator, and I think we all agree that Luigi was trying to make a political statement through the use of violence. Agree or disagree with his message, that was his methodology.
But yes, in this case, this was a self-immolation protest, with no goal of causing fear. Even if a monk accidentally sets a bystander on fire as a result of demonstration, that is an accident, and no one has any reason to be afraid the monk will come for them next.
I think Luigi if guilty was making a commercial statement. He allegedly attacked the health fund with the highest rate of claim denials with bullets marked with a statement about how they don’t serve their customers fairly
Hey, you know what, I wanted to go check my own bias here. It looks like I use the late 20th century and the contemporary definition of “terrorism”, with a mental angle, apparently. Fascinating that the definition apparently shifts over time.
Used GPT to look up the etymology over history for that. (So the obvious grain of salt, but usually definition lookups are fairly straightforward.)
The angle part is, CEOs aren’t civilians based on how the government treats them, how they are trumping up charges that a true civilian would never see happen, and how they always seem to escape the law unless they are caught doing tax evasion. They, like the three branches of Federal government, and movie stars, get to live well outside the laws that we mere peasants have to follow.
Not trying to be contrarian either, I agree, it was likely a political statement through the use of violence.