An individual utilizing a flamethrower set fireplace Saturday to a Pan-African flag flying on a pole exterior the headquarters of the Uhuru Motion, a Black worldwide socialist group based mostly in Florida.
Safety video launched by the group reveals the motive force of a white Honda sedan pulling up exterior the group’s St Petersburg headquarters, eradicating a flamethrower from the trunk and taking pictures a tower of fireside on the flag flying about 30ft (9 meters) above the bottom.
The group stated the person stopped when a employee contained in the constructing yelled at him.
The video reveals the person placing the flamethrower again within the trunk after which driving away. A photograph equipped by the group reveals the flag with a big gap.
St Petersburg police stated they had been investigating the fireplace and dealing to determine a suspect.
The Uhuru Motion is a part of the African Folks’s Socialist get together, whose said goal is “uniting African individuals as one individuals for liberation, social justice, self-reliance and financial improvement”.
The group’s director of agitation and propaganda, Akile Akai, stated the assault was in the identical vein because the Might killing of 10 Black individuals at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store.
Police say the suspect arrested in the Buffalo bloodbath is a white nationalist.
Akai stated a “social system and facade of normalcy based mostly on oppression, colonialism and exploitation” trigger such assaults.
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