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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Ep 54 | ANTIFA Targets ICE? Far-Left Political VIOLENCE

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Following a terrorist attack on an ICE facility by a self-proclaimed member of Antifa, the mainstream media has been strangely silent. Lauren breaks down why the violence is escalating and why the Left has been so lackluster in denouncing it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome back to the show.

0:07.0

Today we're going to be talking about increasing left-wing extremism, including political violence.

0:15.1

Now as you may or may not have heard on Saturday, there was an attack on an ice facility.

0:20.2

As Fox News reports, quote, police in Washington state say an armed man was shot and killed early Saturday

0:26.7

after trying to attack a local immigration and customs enforcement detention center.

0:31.2

The Seattle Times reported that the unidentified man appeared

0:34.3

outside of the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma with a rifle and threw

0:38.3

incendiary devices at both the facility and nearby propane tanks at one point setting a vehicle on fire.

0:44.8

Officers responded to the incident around 4 a.m. and called out to the man before shots were fired.

0:50.2

It was not clear how many shots were fired or whether the man fired at police.

0:54.4

Fox also reports that, quote, the four officers involved were placed on administrative leave in accordance with the department's policy.

1:01.1

None of them were injured.

1:02.3

I said in a statement that no

1:03.8

employees were harmed nor involved in this tragic incident. The shooting took place

1:08.0

hours after a rally in front of the detention center to protest planned mass

1:12.2

deportation raids around the country.

1:14.1

I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that although it is a good thing that no one besides

1:19.0

the attacker himself was injured in this incident, it's still shocking that it happened at all.

1:24.1

As far as understanding what the motivation behind this could have possibly been, we need look

1:28.8

no further than a document written by the attacker what some people are calling his manifesto.

1:33.6

The document is two pages and I'm not going to read it in its entirety A because of

1:38.1

length and B because screw that guy but there are some passages that I think are especially important in understanding

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