Colorado man who detonated bomb at NAACP building gets five years

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Colorado man who detonated bomb at NAACP building gets five years
Reuters
By Keith Coffman
8 hours ago

DENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado Springs man who detonated a homemade pipe bomb outside a building that housed the local branch of the NAACP civil rights organization was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison on arson and firearms charges, authorities said.

Thaddeus Murphy, 44, was sentenced in Denver by U.S. District Judge William Martinez. The prison term will be followed by three years of supervised probation, court documents showed.

Murphy pleaded guilty in August to damaging by explosives or fire a building used for interstate commerce in the Jan. 6 bombing at a Colorado Springs office building, and for being a convicted felon in possession of firearms.

Murphy denied to federal agents that he targeted the office of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, but said he was furious at his tax accountant who once had an office in the same building.

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[Historic NY]

1. Well he won't be voting anytime soon.

[EL34x4]

2. Misleading headline

The NAACP was not the target of his bomb.

I suppose "Colorado man who detonated bomb at tax accountant's office gets five years" would not generate sufficient outrage.