Man Who Burned Down Tennessee Abortion Clinic Also Attended Jan. 6 Insurrection
Unsealed court documents have revealed that the man who burned down a Planned Parenthood clinic on New Year’s Eve was also at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, according to the Tennessee Lookout and the Associated Press. The man joins a list of others engaged in anti-abortion violence who were present at the insurrection, including a convicted clinic bomber.
The FBI used surveillance footage to identify now-deceased Mark Thomas Reno as the man who fired a shotgun at the doors of a Knoxville, Tennessee, abortion clinic on January 22, 2021—the 48th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision. FBI Agent Thomas Calhoun said in the unsealed affidavit that Reno returned to the clinic nearly a year later, in the early morning of December 31, 2021, to set fire to it. The clinic, which had been closed for renovations since December 7, burned to the ground.
About two weeks before he shot up the clinic, Reno had attended the Capitol riot with a fake cane and glasses. He didn’t bring his phone to avoid being identified—a fact he shared with an undercover FBI agent. (The FBI said there’s no evidence he entered the Capitol or broke any other laws that day.)
In late January 2022, Reno told a plainclothes investigator from the Knoxville Fire Department that he belonged to a group called Church Militant Resistance and that he was willing to fight for his beliefs and that the neighborhood was better after the clinic burned down.
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