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“Bomb Found Along MLK Parade Route”

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A bomb was found along the Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade route in Spokane, Washington.

The discovery before Monday’s parade for the slain civil rights leader, raised the possibility of a racial motive in a region that has been home to a white supremacist Nations.

The suspicious backpack was spotted by three city employees about an hour before the parade was to start, they looked inside, saw wires and immediately alerted law enforcement.

“The confluence of the holiday, the march and the device is inescapable,” said law enforcement special agent in charge of the Spokane FBI office. “But we are not at the point where we can draw any particular motive.”

The parade route was changed to avoid the device and a bomb disposal unit disabled it without incident.

Officers also declined to release details of the device, other than to call it a functional bomb that could have caused multiple casualties; and that the “potential for injury and death were clearly present”.

Prejudice, bigotry and hate, is still alive and well people, alive and well!

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126 thoughts on ““Bomb Found Along MLK Parade Route””

    2. I think none of us are physically safe anymore.
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      And the lines are getting sharper, as is the rhetoric

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    4. Hate travels in time, and so does love but not in this case!
      It was probably the family of those who killed KING that planted the bomb.

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    5. Sadly, with the election of President Obama, some studies have shown racism is on the rise.

      Some people will fight social progress kicking and screaming, you know? It’s so sad.

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    6. @Kayla,
      Remember the 4 girls killed in a bombing of a church in Alabama in the early 60’s? Many of us have evolved. The madman did not.

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  4. Let’s see. A bomb along a parade route to celebrate MLK? In Spokane? I guess we’d better completely ignore history to solve this one.

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  5. In my opinion, it is not the terrorist overseas that I fear for they have a long journey to get on our soil…,but it is the terrorists that walk among us everyday.

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    1. The Crazies will always be with us….Perh­aps someone had a security camera running near by and that’s how they caught em….

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  6. Well, well, well, it looks like the “tone” for our civil discourse that Pres. Obama and all of us had hoped would improve really hasn’t….

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  8. “The suspicious backpack was spotted by three city employees about an hour before the parade was to start, they looked inside, saw wires and immediately alerted law enforcement.”
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    Really Ms. Bell,
    They found it (the bomb) because they felt the need to look for one.

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    1. WRONG, they found it because someone thought that the pack that was left unattended, looked suspicious and called it in, FOOL!!!!

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    2. Well you know what @Angelhair, maybe they should NOT have investigat­ed the suspicious looking backpack and just let the bomb explode and kill countless people?

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  9. Good morning Family: Has anyone considered that there are probably more domestic terrorists inside the U.S. then there are terrorists in the rest of the entire world.

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      2. we shall live in peace, we shall live in peace, we shall live in peace, someday! Oh-Oh, deep in my heart i do believe, that we shall live in peace someday!!!

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      3. we shall be set free, we shall be set free, we shall be set free, someday, a,a,a,a,a….oh, oh, deep in my heart….i do believe ‘we shall be set free’ someday!

        i have tears in my eyes people.

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      6. @NICOLE, QUEEN & APPLEBOTTOM,
        that was beautiful! thank you for that, i had forgotten about that civil rights songs.
        That was simply beautiful!

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      2. The episode was ok, Mel finally told Derwin but only after Janay was about to do it. Derwin was going to divorce her but stayed with Melanie…Jason is bitter (because the Sabers let him go) and is sticking it to the Saber organization, Tasha Mack and Kelly are friends again….Janay is about to wipe Derwin out with child support and visitation days….that sucks…

        The show was ok, next weeks show looks good though…

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      4. Good Morning! Yes, I would agree The Game is a bit much this season. I’d admit, I;ve missed a few episodes on the last season but this season here….. I dunno. Maybe the acting and the plots will get much better as the season progresses.

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  10. You mean the same people who can’t stand the fact that we have a black man in the WH, and they are pulling out all the stops to discredit him? None of which have worked.

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    1. You mean the same people who can’t stand the fact that we have a black man in the WH
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      the same racist people, YUP!

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  11. I’ll spell this out because some people are going to miss it: the KKK and other white supremacis­t groups are terrorist organizati­ons and trust and believe they are the one’s behind this.

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    2. Besides inflicting violence upon blacks, they also targeted politician­s who opposed Jim Crow laws, and made sure that their own couldn’t be convicted in a court of law. Al-Qaeda may get the headlines these days, but there have been no terrorists in this country more persistent­, more pervasive, and more destructiv­e than the KKK

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      1. Poor attempt at deflection­ ANGELHAIR., But there is NO comparing the KKK and the blackpanth­ers.

        It’s not even close.
        Not even close!!!!

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      3. I agree that the KKK are and have been racist terrorists­. Will you agree the blackpanth­ers are the same?
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        The original Black Panthers were created as a RESPONSE to KKK lynchings, ­killings, c­ross burnings, and the o­verall terrorism of blacks in this country.

        Please remember that back then, blacks didn’t really have many LEGAL solutions to their problems..­.white cops, some of whom were members of the KKK in their area, didn’t particular­ly rush to assist blacks who were victims of crimes perpetrate­d by the KKK. So some blacks decided to ban together and arm themselves for protection­.

        To miss that point is to be willfully DUMB and naive.

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      4. I remember hearing a lecture in college were the speaker said that historical­ly, the KKK acted as a paramilita­ry organizati­on that helped keep tabs on slaves who escaped platations­.

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      6. Thank you CEODawg!!!
        Cause ‘ANGELHAIR’ can really play that role as the ‘dumb bitch’ of this blog i swear!

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      1. LOL @ A bomb found at a parade for MLK where I’m sure it was predominan­­tly African-Am­­erican?
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        ya think?

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  13. It’s just so sad that we are at this point in the 21th century that we have not move forward is just a shame! Thank you Ms. Tracy for this., I didn’t hear this on NOT ‘1’ news channel/station.

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    1. It’s just so sad that we are at this point in the 21th century
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      isn’t it? Just goes to show you how some people just don’t want change. and will never accept blacks as equal.

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  14. I just finished reading Roots. If anybody in the country wants to learn how far we’ve come you should read this book. But then again when something like this happens, we haven’t come too far.

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  16. It’s unfortunat­e that cities and states are now laying off law enforcemen­t personnel (ie, Camden NJ). They are the first line of defense in these types of incidents.

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    2. It’s unfortunat­e that cities and states are now laying off law enforcemen­t personnel (ie, Camden NJ).
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      Yeah it’s ashame so the people will run wild. and crime will be rampant. you notice these layoffs are taking place in some of the most dangerous cities.

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  18. People will just find other reasons to hate. Gay vs. straight, left handed vs right handed, people 6 feet plus tall vs people 5 feet, 11 and less, etc…etc.­..

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    1. Sadly, I don’t even know if that would work. Everyone wouldn’t be the same color..so new forms of bigotry would pop up. It already, (sadly) happens amongst people of the same race.

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  20. Just a few days after the tragedy in Arizona? Wow. Welcome to the “united” states of America. Welcome to “post” racial America.

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  21. “He called the planting of the bomb an act of domestic terrorism that was clearly designed to advance a political or social agenda.”

    what an interestin­g statement from the FBI without any evidence, must be taking lessons from the sheriff in Tuscon.

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    2. @ Cinnamon,
      If anything, that seems like a ‘duh’ statement.­..it was at an event honoring MLK…ON THE PARADE route…so if it has no social or political agenda, exactly what was the purpose? The person just *randomly* picked the parade route on a *random* day that *just so happened* to be MLK day? GTFOH!

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    1. KAYLA: look at the blatant disrespect given to our President by members of Congress..­……they would never treat a white President with such disrespect­….even if they didn’t like the man, they have always respected the office….­…….

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  23. Ridiculous­! People who do this kind of stuff should be prosecuted to fullest extent of the law. Men, women and children could have been hurt.

    There is NO EXCUSE for this! Really!

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  24. Dr. King inspired people to work for peace and social justice and STILL, we have incidences like this. sad.

    Hi Ms. Bell, thank you “smooches”

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    2. Hey Joanne & Zion, stuff like this truly saddens me. I still fail to understand why someone would want hurt innocent people.
      Ugh,

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  27. There are some WONDERFUL people on this earth. But, there are also a lot of evil, hateful people, too. We only have to look at our history…­to know this. It is SAD but true.

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