Some good news regarding an arrest for violence against a pro-life clinic raises more questions than answers.
Burrito DNA leads to arrest in Mother’s Day firebombing of anti-abortion group’s office
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Nearly a year after the Mother’s Day firebombing took place, federal prosecutors claim that they found the man who tossed a Molotov cocktail at the office of an anti-abortion group in Madison, Wisconsin.
Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury, a 29-year-old from Madison, was arrested on Tuesday morning in Boston Logan International Airport, where authorities say he had a one-way ticket to Guatemala.
He faces [five] to 20 years in prison if convicted of maliciously trying to damage and destroy a building, by means of fire or an explosive.
Heh, a ‘hairy-Dindu’ did it! What, no mug shot released?
Not a hate crime?
Only one charge? Already we see, he crossed state lines to avoid prosecution for a felony.
My skepticism begins.
On the early morning of Mother’s Day 2022, authorities responded to reports of a fire inside Wisconsin Family Action headquarters in Madison. Police arrived on the scene at around 6:02 a.m., after receiving a 911 call from a citizen who saw flames in the window.
There, they observed that the third window from the west end was broken. Authorities say that a mason jar in the area where books were on fire had the hallmarks of a Molotov cocktail, along with a red handkerchief wrapped around the edge of the windowpane glass. As they walked along the building’s perimeter, police say that they found a message in large, black spray-painted graffiti: .If abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either..
The incident occurred days after the leak of the draft ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the Supreme Court opinion that overruled Roe v. Wade, guaranteeing abortion rights.
That boldfaced alone makes this crime domestic terrorism, not ‘damaging a building by use of fire’ like a misstep with a chemistry set. Violence, threats and/or intimidation used to advance a political agenda, yes? Say it with me: ARSON!
Through police work, DNA technology and handwriting analysis, the FBI says that it found the perpetrator less than a year later.
On Jan. 21, 2023, police monitored a demonstration outside Wisconsin’s state capitol, protesting a shooting by police in Georgia. There, authorities noticed similar graffiti left outside the building, this time with the message: .We will get revenge.” Authorities sent comparisons between the two messages to the FBI for analysis.
My skepticism grows. Handwriting analysis in the context of spray paint? You can’t read pressure patterns or cursive loops. “Similar” isn’t “beyond reasonable doubt.”
On Jan. 21, 2023, police monitored a demonstration outside Wisconsin’s state capitol, protesting a shooting by police in Georgia. There, authorities noticed similar graffiti left outside the building, this time with the message: .We will get revenge.” Authorities sent comparisons between the two messages to the FBI for analysis.
Eyeing the suspects who appeared on the video, police say they spotted one of them on surveillance footage getting into a white Toyota Tacoma pickup truck. Authorities matched that license plate to Roychowdhury, after tying his address to his Instagram profile.
Oh, okay. It’s not that the spray-painted handwriting was definitive, it’s that the handwriting was close enough that police could get a search warrant for the other crime. My skepticism shrinks.
.One DNA profile discovered during the forensic process indicates that a male profile, .Male 1,. appears to be present on swabs from the top and bottom of the window glass, swabs from the exterior of the glass jar, swabs from the body of the lighter as well as swabs of the black and silver top of the lighter, including the ignition wheel and button of the lighter, and swabs from the exterior of the Molotov cocktail, and the blue cloth used in that Molotov cocktail,. the FBI affidavit supporting the criminal complaint states.
Yes, I would expect there’d be several DNA profiles with a test that sensitive. Most of them from clinic employees. But, my skepticism spikes again. The perp left the lighter at the scene? A crook that dumb probably has a record, which in Current Year, means his DNA was probably already on file. Police often collect DNA along with fingerprints now, but sometimes only after conviction not just arrest. I don’t know how trendy Wisconsin is with its police methods. DNA collection might have been ahem defunded.
Earlier this month, police saw Roychowdhury holding a fast food bag that he tossed in the trash. It contained a “partially eaten burrito wrapped in waxed paper,. which contained DNA matching that of the Molotov cocktail, according to the complaint.
More skepticism! That’s what police do when they cannot get a search warrant… they get the DNA by following the suspect then digging through the trash.
Roychowdhury then traveled from Madison, Wisconsin, to Portland, Maine, before making the trip to Boston for his [one-way] international flight. He was arrested at the airport.
How interesting that Hairy-Dindu went about his daily life for ten months, then when the arrest warrant was finally issued, was caught in the airport fleeing the country.
Somebody tipped him off. Somebody with the resources and international reach to arrange a safe landing in Guatemala. And then, he didn’t get charged with any Federal crimes.
My skepticism redlines.
This was some good police work… because the police had to succeed against their own system and people. Playing life on hard mode!
One part of me quit respecting police because of their refusal to push back against the DefundPolice movement. If they won’t protect themselves then they certainly won’t protect me. Another part of me wishes we could be allies. Seeing as we have the same enemies, and police are much less capable of self-delusions regarding the innate goodness of the human soul, than Churchians.