Armed man throwing ‘incendiary devices’ at ICE detention center killed by officer
7/15/19
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from The Washington Post,
7/13/19:
An armed man was fatally shot Saturday after throwing what authorities called “incendiary devices” at a Washington immigration detention center and trying to set a commercial-size propane tank on fire, according to Tacoma police.
About 4 a.m., 69-year-old Willem Van Spronsen threw “lit objects” at buildings and at cars in a parking lot, police said, causing a vehicle to go up in flames. Court records show the man was arrested last year at a protest at the privately owned detention center, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement called the man an “anti-immigration enforcement protester.”
The man, a Vashon Island resident, died at the scene after shots were fired, police said.
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