We noted at the time that there was no proof that NAACP was even the target of the ‘bombing’, on the opposite side of the building, not near where the NAACP was located.
DENVER — A man arrested in last month’s small explosion near a Colorado NAACP office told investigators he was targeting an accountant who worked in the same building.
Court records filed Friday allege 44-year-old Thaddeus Murphy admitted to making a pipe bomb because he was distraught over financial problems. The records show Murphy was upset because the accountant wouldn’t return his tax records or phone calls.
Murphy was charged with arson of a building and being a felon in possession of a firearm.The accountant ran his business out of the same building as offices of the Colorado Springs chapter of the NAACP.
No one was hurt in the explosion adjacent to a wall of Mr. G’s Hair Design Studios, a barber shop.
The blast caused only minor damage but rattled nerves due to its proximity to the nation’s oldest civil rights organization.
Here’s that bombing damage: a soot mark on the wall. Oh, and a few bottles fell off the wall of shelves in the barbershop. Absolutely no damage or harm to the NAACP office.
If you’ll recall, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes ran a piece on how horrible this racist attack was, and showed pictures of blown out windows in a store in France, rather than the actual pictures of the ‘damage’.