Six people were injured at a scheduled pro-Israel gathering in Boulder, Colorado when a man shouted 'free Palestine' before attacking the gathering with a 'makeshift flamethrower' and 'Molotov cocktails', US authorities say.
00:00We're here. We're here. We're here. We can't do nothing about that. We can't do nothing. We can't. You're not here. You have to end service. He's not here, bro. You're not. He won't take the video right now. He was wearing an orange suit with like something on his back. He was spraying alcohol. He was spraying alcohol, but with his head, he made it look like he's a chair. He's making molotov tacos.
00:25What about 1.26 p.m. today? At that time, Boulder Dispatch received several calls to the county courthouse located at 1325 Pearl Street here in Boulder. The initial callers indicated that there was a man with a weapon and that people were being set on fire.
00:47The initial response by our officers, we were on scene very quickly. When we arrived, we encountered multiple victims that were injured with injuries consistent with burns and other injuries.
01:02While our officers and paramedics and fire department personnel got those victims quickly to the hospital, our officers were pointed out, a suspect was pointed out to our officers on the scene.
01:14Our officers immediately encountered that suspect who was taken into custody without incident. That suspect, who I'm not able to ID at this time, was taken to the hospital with some minor injuries as well.
01:27And there's a lot more we're investigating right now before I'm able to release information on that person.
01:32What I will say, lastly, is this was a beautiful Sunday afternoon in downtown Boulder on Pearl Street, and this act is unacceptable.
01:43I hope you'll join me this evening as we're working through this investigation.
01:48We are working, I just came from the command post.
01:51We've got dozens and dozens of people here, our state, local, and federal partners, working through this to figure out exactly what happened.
01:58I ask for a little bit of patience as we do that, but also I ask that you join me in thinking about our victims, the families of those victims, and everyone involved in this tragedy.
02:08Our hearts go out to them, and we are going to do everything we can to work as hard as we can throughout the evening to provide more information and get answers for everyone.
