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The Republican State Representative’s office in Washington was targeted by arsonists on Monday morning as political tensions in the United States continued to intensify until the mid-autumn.
“Last night, two individuals broke a window and threw a flare on the office of my seatmate, Congressman Andrew Barkis,” Washington said. Congressman JT Wilcox tweeted on Monday with a video of the incident. “I don’t have any information about perps or motivation, but I’m very worried. Thank you for the flare landing on the masonry floor.”
In the video, around 4 am on June 13, two people approached the front door of the office and one smashed the window and broke the glass.
Another individual can drop a illuminated road flare into the office and watch it in a video leaving.
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Both suspects are currently loose.
Lieutenant Paul Lower of the Olympia Police Department told Fox News Digital that he was investigating the case as arson, and police “always want to pay attention” to crimes that could be politically motivated. ..
Lower added that a suspect, who agrees with a video similar to the video in Berkis’ office, robbed another office of goods worth thousands of dollars about a mile away. Robbers in the area can “cause misappropriation crimes” to separate law enforcement agencies from specific targets, Lower said.
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Barkis told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that he was skeptical of the theory given the rise of political violence committed by the far-left group in the Pacific Northwest over the past few years.
“It’s not exactly the same as someone trying to set fire and burn a building to steal an antique store,” Berkis said. “We live in a very charged environment.
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Barkis added that his office is well known to be in the building that runs his property management company and can be easily investigated, adding that the left-wing group in the area is a standard operation. He explained that he adopted violence as a procedure.
“My fear is what was their MO when I saw what was happening in Olympia, Seattle and Portland,” Barkis said. “Federal buildings, they threw incendiary bombs and burned the building. This has been done in the last few years, so it’s not unusual.”
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The road flare case at Berkis’ office was followed by a series of violent attacks on anti-abortion sites across the country, triggered by a leak of documents suggesting that the Roe v. Wade case was on the verge of overthrow. happen.
One such example occurred in Washington State in late May, when vandals targeted a crisis pregnancy center in the Seattle area, broke windows, and tagged abortion-related threats.
Abortion opponent Barkis told Fox News Digital that he “has been in this business for a long time” and is accustomed to “people being upset” on certain issues. Has been raised to a “whole new level”. ..
“People who throw lit flares from my windows to knock down my building aren’t angry tenants because they withheld their deposits to clean the carpet,” Berkis said. “That’s not what’s behind this. Research shows.”