July 20, 2026

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

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:”

 

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.

Or perhaps, it’s not all that curious.

No enemies to the left; when the late Robert Redford was promoting his 2012 film about the Weathermen domestic terrorists, it was hard to tell who was more fired up about it, him or ABC’s George Stephanopoulos:

Stephanopoulos was so enthusiastic towards Robert Redford and his sympathetic new film about an ex-1960s radical that the actor enthused, “You ought to get on the marketing team!” The aging actor/director appeared on Tuesday’s Good Morning America and endorsed the violent actions of protest groups. Reminiscing on his own past, the liberal Hollywood star recounted, “When I was younger, I was very much aware of the movement. I was more than sympathetic, I was probably empathetic because I believed it was time for a change.”

After Stephanopoulos wondered, “Even when you read about bombings,” Redford responded, “All of it. I knew that it was extreme and I guess movements have to be extreme to some degree.”

Unfortunately, it seems like many at ABC News would agree with that attitude today.

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Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll