Man Crashes Truck Repeatedly into Fox News Station

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My first thought was “who hasn’t wanted to do that?”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/us/k ... allas.html
A man upset about the fatal police shooting of a friend in 2012 repeatedly rammed a pickup truck into the building of a Dallas television station on Wednesday morning, shattering floor-to-ceiling windows during the station’s morning newscast, the police said.

After slamming into the downtown Dallas building around 6 a.m., the man exited the truck and began yelling and throwing paper into the air, according to the station, KDFW-TV, a Fox affiliate. Before the police arrived, he held photos, handwritten notes and a news article about the shooting up to one of the building’s windows.

“He kept yelling, ‘High treason!’” Brandon Todd, a reporter at the station, said on air. “He believed he had been clearly wronged and was trying to get some attention.”
No one was hurt, the police said.

The driver, who was identified as Michael Chadwick Fry, 34, was taken to a hospital for a “medical evaluation” and was later booked into the Dallas County Jail on a felony criminal mischief charge, the police said. No bond had been set as of Wednesday afternoon.

Major Max Geron of the Dallas Police Department said the man had “mental issues” and was trying to bring attention to the fatal shooting, which occurred in Denton County, north of Dallas. In that October 2012 episode, a Denton County sheriff’s deputy opened fire on a car Mr. Fry was riding in after the authorities said the driver, Roberto Hernandez, tried to ram into the deputy’s cruiser.

Mr. Hernandez was struck and killed, while Mr. Fry, who had jumped into the back seat, was not injured. Mr. Fry, who has a lengthy criminal record in Denton County, was charged with probation violation.
A video from the station on Wednesday showed the man removing paper from a duffel bag and from boxes in the back of the truck. He also stacked a pile of documents outside a door to the building. One of the documents was a copy of a news article about the Denton County shooting with mug shots of Mr. Hernandez and himself.

Notes had been written around the article. “They tryed to kill me. and they missed. and hit him,” the notes read. “They have been trying to killing me for years now.”

Records show that Mr. Fry lives in Bartonville, a rural Denton County town about 30 miles northwest of downtown Dallas. Relatives for Mr. Fry could not be reached for comment. It was not clear whether he had hired a lawyer to represent him.
The crash occurred during a time of heightened security and concern in newsrooms across the United States over speech and violence targeting the news media. In June, five people were killed in a shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Md. Last week, the F.B.I. charged a California man who was accused of threatening to kill employees of The Boston Globe. In a phone call to the paper, the man said, “You’re the enemy of the people” — echoing the frequent attack line used by President Trump.

But Mr. Todd said it appeared that the driver did not want to hurt anyone. The man told onlookers that he had decided to crash into the station in the early morning because he assumed few people would have been inside the building.
The Fox station continued to broadcast its morning news show during the crash, and the show’s anchors later said on air that they were unaware the episode had taken place because they could not hear it. But outside the television studio, employees at the station fled.

Shannon Murray, a reporter who was inside the newsroom at the time of the crash, said she grabbed a few items, including her phone, and ran.

“We just saw police running inside and saying, ‘Get to the other side of the building,’” Ms. Murray said on the station’s morning news show. “It wasn’t clear what the man’s intentions were. He was yelling and trying to show us something.”
A man crashed a truck into the side of our building this morning. He jumped out and started ranting. He’s in custody now but the bomb squad is on its way. He left behind a suspicious bag. Most have been evacuated & a few are working to keep the news on air from a secure location. pic.twitter.com/X3UpLbYk85
— FOX 4 NEWS (@FOX4) September 5, 2018

Most employees in the newsroom evacuated the building after the episode while the broadcast continued from a secure location, the station said. The police blocked off streets around the building for several hours while a Police Department bomb squad investigated the man’s duffel bag, which was left at the scene, and his truck. The police said that officers found no explosives.




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Re: Man Crashes Truck Repeatedly into Fox News Station

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I totally get what you mean, Huck. Sanity is not a given in this day and age. Aggression and gas lighting by the liars slowly drive us insane with rage until something snaps and we get this...

None of us are immune to it by sheer nature. Everyone who loves and cares about what's going on is vulnerable to this. I've thought long and hard about this quandary since that Bernie supporter gunned down that Republican congressional baseball team.
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"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent." -Gandhi

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