BREAKING: Manhattan Federal Building Hit with Molotov Cocktail; Anti-ICE Activis

[SVPete]

BREAKING: Manhattan Federal Building Hit with Molotov Cocktail; Anti-ICE Activist Arrested

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/07/20/breaking-manhattan-federal-building-hit-with-molotov-cocktails-anti-ice-activist-arrested-n3817137

ABC News calls this a "scare." It looks much more like a domestic terror attack.

A federal building in lower Manhattan got set aflame with an "incendiary device" this morning. The video of the attack, from two different angles, shows that the danger went well beyond a "scare":
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ABC News went on to report that the device appeared to be a fireworks-initiated Molotov cocktail. Law enforcement immediately arrested a suspect, whose track record will surprise no one paying attention the last eighteen months:

There was a scare outside 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan Monday morning when someone released what appeared to be a smoke grenade outside the building.

Police say the person is believed to be a protester with a history of anti-ICE activity.

Officers quickly secured the area and the suspect was taken into custody.

Authorities said the "makeshift incendiary device" was made up of fireworks and a flammable liquid.

That's no "smoke grenade." It's a device intended to set fire to buildings and people. This is an event of domestic terrorism, one that could have killed people had luck changed just a little. It's curious that ABC News felt the urge to minimize this in its lead and only related the nature of the device later in the article.

The Feds are taking jurisdiction, which is good, since NYC cannot be trusted to prosecute the perp.

[SVPete]

Armed loon sets off ‘incendiary device’ outside NYC fed HQ as terrorism task force probes anti-ICE attack

https://nypost.com/2026/07/20/us-news/terrorism-task-force-probes-armed-loon-who-set-off-incendiary-device-outside-nyc-fed-hq/

A crazed former US Army soldier and National Guardsman set off fireworks and lit a fire outside a Manhattan federal building Monday in an apparent anti-ICE terror attack, officials said.

Andrew Arrabaca, 43, a veteran from Poughkeepsie, “came armed with bad intention” to 26 Federal Plaza, where he fired five to seven pellets from an airsoft rifle at the building before lighting fireworks and sparking a blaze at around 8:30 a.m., the feds said.

“He is an anti-American, anti-government extremist,” James Barnacle, assistant director in charge of the FBI New York Field Office, told reporters at an afternoon press briefing.

Arrabaca allegedly had various weapons, including “two axes, a hammer, a machete and three fixed-blade knives,” as well as six other incendiary devices, Barnacle said.

The would-be arsonist is an ICE-Hating lefty, so it's probably going to get token CYA coverage outside of NYC.