It appears people upset with Target over its new trans-inclusive bathroom policy could be upping their ante.
Instead of merely marching up and down the aisles waving Bibles in the air and condemning the discount department store to hell, someone has planted a bomb in the bathroom.
Yes, you read that correctly. Someone has literally blown up the bathroom… and all in a possible effort to “keep children safe.”
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A small bomb was detonated in the women’s bathroom at a Target store in Evanston yesterday at around 4 p.m. Officials are looking into whether the attack is connected to the company’s recent policy change that allows transgender people to use the bathroom of their choice.
According to commander Joe Dugan, no one was inside the bathroom at the time of the explosion. There were no injuries and only minor damage.
After reviewing store security camera video, police took a 44-year-old woman into custody this morning. They are calling her a “person of interest” in the crime, though no charges have been filed yet.
“The detectives are not currently looking for any known additional suspects and (at) this point there is no indication that the incident is related to any policies that the Target store has in place,” a press release reads.
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h/t: Chicago Tribune
throwslikeagirl
Heartbreaking and shocking. There are extremists everywhere. I try to remember that acts like this are the work of an extremist and don’t represent society as a whole.
GC1985
Charge them with terrorism and hand down a 15 year sentence at the minimum. Anyone who commits such an act is a terrorist.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
In light of recents incidents too numerous to mention, I just hope it doesn’t redound upon asses. Fucking hate that my mind is forced to even entertain the possibility. But…
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
* upon our asses
woodroad34
So, who’s the terrorist/threat here? Transpeople, who’ve never harmed anyone, or straight people who seem to know nothing but violence and hate?
Paco
Is the suspect a Christian terrorist?
He BGB
Those ignorant people should be more concerned about straight men like that on video in Florida trying to drag a 13 year old girl out of a Dollar General with her mom holding on. They’re wasting time and money on this bathroom nonsense.
rand503
I bet she is pro-life.
rand503
The catholic church can pay for her legal defense.
LubbockGayMale
In her mind, bombs are less a threat to the kids than some M2F transexual… weird.
joeyty
@rand503: Why ?
joeyty
Is there a definitive article to who the bomber was and what the motive was ? I see a lot of you seem to already know, so…
RMOH
Time to face it America, this is domestic terrorism. Yes, terrorism. Why? Because an unknown person left a bomb to go off in a Target in the US and if it went off it would hurt innocent people using the bathroom. It exploded and no one was hurt. It is still DOMESTIC TERRORISM!
In South Carolina, the boy killing the people in the church, that is DOMESTIC TERRORISM.
We, like Israel, like Iraq, like France, like (do I really have to go on??) face DOMESTIC TERRORISM.
joeyty
@RMOH: Some transgender person setting off a weak explosive in a bathroom barely counts.
sweetbrandigirl2004
UH excuse me but doesn’t this qualify as Domestic Terroism ?
Hussain-TheCanadian
@joeyty: If it’s being done for a political purpose then yes it is domestic terrorism.
Are you saying that terrorism is dependent on who the person is?
joeyty
@Hussain-TheCanadian: But what if she’s not doing it for any reason than she’s mad she got fired?
Hussain-TheCanadian
@joeyty: Then no its not terrorism.
It doesn’t seem to be the reason though; we are assuming its an attack to show displeasure with Target’s new washroom policies regarding Trans people.
GC1985
@joeyty: Who says this is a transgender person? Target adopted trans friendly policies. Gee you dumb thing… this was probably more a right winger doing it!
joeyty
@Hussain-TheCanadian: I understand what you’re saying, but it might turn out to be neither. Wait and see. The police claim that they were initially suspecting an anti-trans activist but they did arrest a 44 year old woman and now state they don’t think there’s any connection to the incident and the store’s bathroom policy. So…who knows..?
joeyty
@GC1985: Probably some drug lord bombster who tried to take YOU out.
Hussain-TheCanadian
@joeyty: It’s true, we are running on are our assumptions; It’s just so horrifying that someone left a homemade bomb in a public washroom. I agree with you that the perpetrator is on some level is mentally disturbed/ill, and I hope for everyone’s sake that they are caught.
joeyty
@Hussain-TheCanadian: Like I said, I don’t know what happened, but from CBS News it’s reported: “No one was injured in the blast, which damaged a stall in the women’s restroom, officials said. “The explosion may have initiated from a plastic bottle that was observed in the stall,” police said in a statement. “There were no threats or other suspicious activity prior to, or since the incident occurred.” Detectives investigating the incident are questioning a 44-year-old woman, but no charges have been filed so far in the case. “At this point it does not appear to be related to the bathroom policy issues,” Evanston Police Commander Joseph Dugan said in an email. Target spokeswoman Molly Snyder said the retailer was “unaware of what prompted” the incident, and that the company was working with local law enforcement investigating it.”
joeyty
Note : I’d earlier read that the police had arrested a suspect, but this article only says they were questioning her.
GC1985
@joeyty: You’re just an idiot. Everything you say is based on idiocy. I don’t even know what to say to you anymore. You’re just so clueless. You don’t even know what terrorism is. It’s most likely this woman was anti-trans and committing a terrorist act.
joeyty
@GC1985: I didn’t say anything. I only directly copied the CBS news report. Take it up with them if you disagree.
joeyty
Okay…looks like it turns out to have been a junkie mixing (potentially explosive) stuff to get high.
GC1985
@joeyty: OH. Perhaps a follower of Rush Limbaugh and Donald Trump. You have to be on drugs to support either.
joeyty
@GC1985: I still think the cheap druggy arrested for causing the explosion was just a cover story…..and that it was really some rival drag queen drug dealer trying to knock you off but the bomb went off too soon.
abnerbha
I want to go into women’s bathrooms if there are pretty women in there & if a pretty woman wants to use men’s bathrooms, then that is fine. I want a pretty woman to go into men’s bathrooms but I wouldn’t want uglies like Ellen Lee DeGeneres and Rosie T. O’Donnell shitting in any bathroom so Ellen & Rosie can shit in diapers. Ellen Lee DeGeneres & Rosie T. O’Donnell both like to have farting & shitting contests in bathrooms, so Ellen & Rose both want to do battleshits contest in men’s bathrooms since women’s toilets got dirtied by them.