An anti-ICE violent leftist attacked 26 Federal Plaza earlier this morning, where an immigration court takes place. The attacker carried explosives and was captured on video pouring a flammable liquid in front of the building before setting it ablaze. The suspect was intercepted during the attack and has been detained by police.
The New York City Fire Department reported to WABC that three civilians sustained minor injuries, with two declining medical treatment. The third individual was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. FBI Director Kash Patel released a statement on X confirming details about the incident.
“This morning an individual deployed an incendiary device outside of 26 Federal Plaza in New York. The individual is in custody and two minor injuries reported thus far. FBI JTTF is investigating the incident,” Patel wrote on X.
The suspect is a known anti-ICE activist who used a cart to wheel in fireworks, an accelerant in buckets, and what looked like rifles to attack the federal building. Some alarming video below.
A video shows the moment a suspect started a fire outside of 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, where a federal immigration court is located. More: https://t.co/Qgi8dXyKUq pic.twitter.com/ZOlAGTtsRP
— Eyewitness News (@ABC7NY) July 20, 2026
This was sent to me by one of our guys in NYC. pic.twitter.com/IcxO1ZzgrH
— Frank Pinto (@franklpinto) July 20, 2026
Slow motion video of the suspect bring taken away in handcuffs after the explosion at a federal building in Manhattan. pic.twitter.com/y8OEID7Y3l
— 3sidedstory 🇺🇲 (@3sidedstory) July 20, 2026
WATCH: “ICE Off Our Streets” sign and a cart of items found after a suspect threw an incendiary device at 26 Federal Plaza. pic.twitter.com/6LY0nBY9l7
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) July 20, 2026
Too bad the guy with the dog didn’t let his dog take custody of the idiot. We would have gotten more satisfaction in the next 60 seconds than we will if the guy goes to prison for ten years!
What was up with that? He left the other officer alone. Had this been something else that officer could have been injured or killed.
He earned himself a close encounter with a Belgian Malinois, a wood shampoo, or both!
An “alien’s” close encounter of the third kind – get exported back home – I like it.
The guy with the dog walked up to where that bag was on the sidewalk, appeared to bend down and pick something up, and then run off before he came back to the scene.
If you start watching the video I posted down there starting at around 3 minutes and going forward you can see what the guy with the dog did.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/07/20/anti-ice-leftist-attacks-federal-immigration-court-in-manhattan/#comment-12708730
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Judging from the dog’s reaction to the engagement (or lack of) I would guess he and his handler conduct more perimeter security Sniff, then Chew Ops. . .
Walking in circles wagging your tail, is not the look of an attack dog. . .
Democrats created this kind of activity and the acceptance of it is part of their “purity testing”.
Gotta be anti-ICE and anti-police to be a true Democrat.
They will cheer this on and never accept accountability for their own actions.
Communists…..
I’m mildly curious if this guy is an illegal immigrant.
Another useful idiot expended for the cause.
Everyone should keep a cool head, it is going to be a long summer.
Exactly the situation that Marco Rubio so brilliantly exposed last week in his speech. There are so many Left leaning organizations that are creating these types of “lone wolf” attackers. They look for those who are weak minded, easily led, filled with loathing against the very people and structures that dare to succeed when all they do is continuously fail. TPTB quietly encourage them to stand up and “do something” knowing that their fingerprints will not be found anywhere on scene, even though it was their rhetoric that led the person to act!
And, these organizations are all well-organized and funded. There’s nothing “organic” about what prompts someone to do this – and someone else to provide transportation and supplies.
Rubio is exactly correct.
We need a new Eliot Ness and Untouchables to go after every possible little crime these people commit, and lock them up in Gitmo. Maybe some of the DOGE experts can help.
Since Sedition isn’t prosecuted these days, PDJT should by EO implement a special counsel or something designed to use the latest tech, track these people and their organizations, find their money networks, remove their funding and remove them from our country. US Marshall’s maybe?
I would like seeing sheriffs deputizing citizens in their communities in order to take out the trash.
Get the TV Eliot Ness–the real one never so much as got up out of his chair.
The administration said months ago they were executing investigations into funding-financing and who the ringleaders are. It would be beneficial to receive an update from DOJ as to where they are in pursuit of these criminals.
Follow the money, dry it up, arrest the enablers; and this crap stops with few repeats of anti-ICE, TDS criminal activity.
He is not an illegal; he is a former Army mechanic who served four years many years ago. He is a New York state resident and is 43 years old. He had anti-ICE placards on the cart he used to bring his gasoline and fireworks to the site at 26 Fed, which also house the New York City FBI offices. One of them subdued him along with the building’s security guards. The press briefing a short time ago lays it all out.
Formally an Army mechanic? Interesting.
More curious would be if he deployed into the sandbox.
No deployments. But apparently a mechanic for Patriot missiles.
Would’ve been a fobbit, more likely than not had he deployed.
FAFO. FO = 20 years in a federal pen. And that does not necessarily include the penalties for injuring several people on federal property.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-113B
TERRORIST ACTIVITY –
GITMO or ADX Florence
Florence, probably. He won’t be playing tennis at Allenwood.
Probably be limited to pickleball.
You mean “pickle in bowel.”
Am very cynical about how these creatures are punished these days… am feeling quite likely he will be found mentally incompetent or somesuch condition by a biased boasburgtype judge and receive free treatments at a facility for a while, then let loose back into the community when next president is elected.
As former Army, is Leavenworth an option?
That basically says he can get up to a life sentence for firebombing the FBI building.
Hope the perp doesn’t make bail! He’s a danger to commit more violence let him rot until his trial!!!
He will likely be charged federally, so New Yawk’s idiotic state bail laws won’t apply. It seems doubtful he will get a bail he can afford premium wise. In view of the video and circumstances, he will undoubtedly be convicted and sentenced to federal prison.
Does anyone truly believe that an unCivil War has not already been ongoing for a decade???
Some have called it a “Cold” Civil War”, Chris.
For quite a while I have thought there is one… Either that or an actual Colour Revolution in Progress…but now a hot one.
And getting hotter.
It’s true that we are in a decades-long Civil War II right now, but you are right; we are way past the “cold” phase.
The American Left (Communists, Socialists, Nazis, etc) has dropped all pretense of “moderation.”
They want President Trump dead. They want his supporters dead. They want our Constitutional Republic and our entire election system dead.
They want to replace all of the above with their Authoritarian “Utopia.”
The roots of the “Modern Left” go all the way back to the French Revolution, which itself was a direct descendant of the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Unrestrained violence is in their ideological DNA.
We have had seasons where the fight against satanic authoritarianism (the true definition of “leftism”) was relatively cold, but it’s hotter than Las Vegas in July right now-and getting hotter.
Pray continually that God would deliver us from these evil minions of Satan.
“Satan was the first revolutionary” as has often been said.
Evil will never surrender.
“What doesn’t kill us, morphs and tries again,” wrote someone..
And this is certainly true. If it doesn’t succeed completely, it simply withdraws and reinvents itself with a new face, clothes, and language before reemergence for battle once more.
I have said on other threads that perhaps God Himself is giving evil its head so that we can see what this world is like without Him in it… as my mother described “hell” to me. Short, succinct, and accurate.
So that even those who having been paying no attention (and are ignorant of the many times what is again being offered at this moment to take the place of America as founded has failed with unspeakable, terrible cost) begin to start fearing the loss of a nation which they have taken for granted.
“There are two kinds of people; those to say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your own way.'”
~CS Lewis
Is that too much to hope for?
The devout Democrat Bill Maher is horrified and has now said he gets it, and will not vote for what’s on offer.
And perhaps this is what we are witnessing, Bruce…the blessing of being allowed to see evil’s new façade so that our nation sends it back into the godless shadows from which it always comes.
I don’t know…
We can only pray so…
Source for my mentioning Bill Maher…
He no doubt has the wherewithal to leave, perhaps to somewhere in South America where, country by country, Communism seems to have had its day….or decades…and is now being thoroughly repudiated. The rest of us will be stuck. Experience can be a brutal teacher. The irony in the 250th anniversary of our founding.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/im-not-living-communist-america-bill-maher-blasts-marxist-dsa-democrats-says-he-may-vote
…Bruce Gordon…..we do not have a Constitutional Republic since..1871…VSGPDJT try to restore it…..we are still USCorp…..
Incipient color revolution
The cool kids in the strategic analysis club were calling it “4th Generation War” for a while. Maybe they still are; I dunno.
A war it is certainly, no matter what name is used to define it.
For myself, I call it a spiritual one.
I’m seeing several reports of this. A “known” anti-ICE activist. Why haven’t they coughed up a name (bet it’s hyphenated, or at least 2 last names), or immigration status?
Dark hair. Dark skin.
One of those damn Asian Amish people again!!!
Possibly a dark-skinned white guy who happens to also be a MAGA, conservative Christian Republican who voted for Trump. /s
He was a “tanned” person. 🙄
You really have to watch out for those violent “Tanned Amish” hoodlums. 😂
Andrew Arrabaca 43 yrs old. Per Jack Posobiec on X.
Looks to me he wither works in a laundry or pulls a rikshaw.
Someone did somthing.
Strange how they can never connect the dots on who’s funding them and furnishing their weapons. It’s always a rogue act by an individual. Fing liars.
I think Rubio’s recent comments confirm that there are those in government law enforcement that know better – and know where and how to look.
Secretary Rubio knows as well as we do that the FBI knows exactly who these people are, who is paying them, and where they can be found.
He also knows that the FBI is protecting them and facilitating their criminal activities.
As Sundance says, “It’s all worms, no apple.”
Well!!!! “Both sides do it” you know…
I hope you are being sarcastic. All the violence is from the left.
The quote punctuation is a hint.
Thank you!!! Not everyone gets hints.
Too bad the accelerant didn’t spill all over the “suspect” and spontaneously burst into flames.
THAT would be justice.
Maybe he will accidentally fall down a steep flight of stairs at the police station or jail. Please.
After slipping on a bar of soap.
A close friend of the perp told us that the perp wanted to learn to fly.
Kind of pissed the K-9 officer didn’t unleash the hound, or at least shoot him.
I think that was just somebody walking their dog and stepped up to try to toss away some of whatever the vermin was throwing into the fire.
Don’t insult vermin!
a K-9 DOG NEEDS ” a Chew Toy that Squeals ” every NOW and then
Like most Liberals, he is probably bitter.
The dog prefers higher quality meat.
Until these domestic terrorists have their skulls cracked and put in prison for decades this will only get worse.
Them Fan Belt Inspectors are not the agency to handle this because they are complicit in this type of behavior.
Skulls do need to be cracked.
A little baton work during a scuffle like this is not a bad thing.
If these people don’t experience any pain, they won’t stop.
Cracking the skulls of thralls will be minimally effective when they’re quite replaceable by their masters.
Need to aim a bit higher than the foot soldiers.
I wouldn’t want the officer on the right of that last photo swinging the baton. That’s one big feller!
Many thanks to all of these fine officers for doing a very difficult job!
Really ?
How about let’s just keep the kid gloves on and give them a good talking to ?
Hog wash
There are no longer any deterrents in this country when dealing with these types and some literally need their skull cracked because they have had their little minds high jacked and violently programmed and there are no repercussions for attempting to kill.
A NY corrupt shyster judge and the Marxist mayor will be soft on this domestic terrorist and probably set up funding to help the poor Marxist
Two in MN did not seem to understand…
Dumb bigots will kill to support the illegal invasion.
A clear result of Democrats supporting, and calling for, this kind of criminal activity against ICE. Those who encouraged it are as guilty as he is.
Nothing to see here folks. Just some leftist violence.
“The warm embrace of Socialism, delivered by mostly peaceful protestations.”
How long must we endure the worn trope of “mostly peaceful” ?
Right? So, a guy did something. Big deal
–AOC
That was Somali Princess Ilhan Omar’s description of 9-11.
“What burns a gallon of gas and doesn’t go anywhere?” A Communist jihadi. A play on a joke we used in Vietnam to relieve the stress.
Street theater to prove Trump years are full of chaos and violecne . Cured only by “Return to Decency™” at the upcoming midterm elections.
Matt Tardio
@angertab
I do not believe this was simply an arson attack.
I believe this was a well-coordinated baited ambush that intended to target the responding officers.
Cont and video…
Notice the ” waddlers ” coming out the FRONT DOOR WALKING PAST the flaming debris => DUMB
He asks if the photographer was a terror symp, too, as they often are.
There is a bit of stink floating around thru the air!
cartel? To I.D. responders?
Her reaction did seem a little strange. I don’t know why she would be filming before he did anything, that seems strange, and her comments to oh my God get away from there over and over, I don’t know who that would be aimed at. She seemed very upset or was acting like it at least, so yeah I think there’s a possibility that she knew it was going to happen ahead of time.
Love the commentary of the videographer in the eyewitness news clip.
As far as this lunatic, we are surrounded by kooks. Head on a swivel – keep powder dry.
God Bless America – MAGA
“Abdul for Deporation”
MAKE BELIEVE ( between 1/64 and 1/2014th ) American Indian ENDORSED !
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/elizabeth-warren-makes-endorsement-heated-170001921.html
As a Michigander I would like to apologize for the morons in Mi. that are supporting this scumbag. They don’t quite understand that the islamification of the US is in high gear.
He is an SEIU and teacher union front, just to capture new Gen Z voters . Once elected, he will obey the Democrat party line, or be only a one term senator.
A lot of women in that photo.
Abdul should be deported.
Morons apparently don’t know ICE stands for “Immigration & Customs Enforcement.”
Beam me up, Scotty!!!
that guy needs some powder actuated lead poisoning
Hes a terrorist. Try him as one.
He’ll get that, arson on federal property is an automatic terrorism charge. Punishable by “any number of years”
Look at all that thick black climate change that guy has created. Expect that climate zealots to disavow this climate criminal /sarc.
Thank Biden and the Democrats who let this fifth column in, and distributed them all across America. The entire Democrat party needs to be hauled in front of the ICC in the Hague.
The ICC has no authority here in the US nor shall it be given to them to try cases outside of the US concerning crimes and violations of our laws within our lands.
We have our own courts that can do the job without involving foreign influences.
The real goal is to make Trump and GOP administrations look chaotic and violent .
Remember how they sold Joe Biden in 2020 as ….The Return to Decency? After their ginned-up daily ANTIFA violence in Portland? We are dealing with a very cynical, stealthy enemy within out midst.
Watch out for their winning …….return to decency 2026 campaigns…… now that they are ramping up here daily attacks on Trump’s “chaotic and violent Amerika.”
Never forget who the real enemies are – Democrat policies, violent rhetoric and government employee union thug command and control of their street operatives.
You voted for this, OMG lady. So STFU.
She sounded lite a 14 year-old girl at a slumber party
A bit odd he didn’t go up to the entrance doors to spill the gas and light it up.
Not so much if it was a distraction to pull in first responders or others into a kill box.
Like the incident in Idaho when the firefighters were killed?
The incident that disappeared from the newsfeed in record time?
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Indeed.
Probably not the only one come to think of it.
More video proof the Amish are up to no good, again.
Run this as a 30-second ad in Michigan.
Figure out how many people could have been killed in a worst-case scenario, and charge him with that many counts of attempted murder.
We can’t hate the Media enough …
Yes, it appears “some people did something”…
ref: U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar.
But it scared the wimmen and the horses. Bad terrorists, bad terrorists. The camera lady hysteric will ned to take hazardous duty leave.
NBC:
“Just a few patriotic July 4t fireworks with a little bit of mostly peaceful smoke! “
They should teach this guy the speed of gravity….from the top of a tall building.
What an outrage that mayor Mandami got to even utter a few words first on the TV news conference. Mayor Commie is the one fomenting anti-ICE behaviors and how rotten everybody else is! In my opinion, these anti-American elected swine should be kept off of mass media so their image and message cannot use the media system we taxpayers gift to the media!
Deport him!
It’s getting close, folks, I would suggest beefing up personal defense plans.
Nothing is getting close except the takeover of the US.
I suggest accepting Jesus Christ as the only sacrifice for your sins. As you say, it’s getting close…
That’s absolutely true, but it’s a safe bet that Jesus would also want us to defend ourselves and our loved ones.
Turn the other cheek did not mean give up your life for demons.
If you believe in the Bible, you can’t ignore the Old Testament and all the wars that were fought and won by God’s people with God’s help.
Probably a good idea to be more organized. This idiot should have been tackled a block away vs after running around with a pail of gasoline. This nonsense, after all, has been going on for a decade. We can do better and should do better. Meanwhile the organized crime continues.
Why does Antifa continue to exist in this country ? Patel needs to do more.
He lacks testicular fortitude!
Shoot the stupid POS and walk away. Revolvers don’t leave shell casings behind, dontchaknow?
This moron was “armed” with a couple of AirSoft rifles. Too bad he didn’t point one at an armed police officer. In my shoot, no shoot training, one of those realistic looking air rifles would have got him shot if he pointed it at an officer.
Mel covered this story in a live show this morning.
Mel grabs live feeds and social media posts in real time and his chat participants also comb for updates.
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Another psychotic leftist (I repeat myself) deliberately driven to violence by Democrat rhetoric.
It’s NY. He’s probably out already planning his next move.
Depending on the legal status of the terrorist, it is either Domestic or Foreign terrorist work, and should be dealt with in the appropriate matter. The government must make an example at every opportunity. Just like the ANTIFA knuckleheads in Texas. 15 of them got 10 to 30 years.
All this insane violence is a direct result of the rhetoric from dumocrat politicians and the drive-by media. I’m all for free speech but, they are using their free speech to incite violence and that is NOT protected.
This is calculated election year Democrat street theater. Orangeman bad – he is nothing violence and chaos. Vote for ……… …(wait for this) ………… the Return to Decency™ Vote Democrat, any Democrat.
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..what the hell. These insane Democrat Socialists of America are worse than the TV show “Walking Dead”.
If they can’t get what they want by cheating at the ballott box , they turn to their old favorite…assassination …like Charlie Kirk and Pres Trump (2Xs)
Maybe. But maybe not.
The last time NYC was targeted, it was a Deep State Agit-Prop Event for the mayor.
March 9: Transcript: Mayor Mamdani Holds Press Conference at Gracie Mansion With NYPD Commissioner
Two Muslim kids were sent by FBI/CIA to toss Sayoc-“bombs” at J6er Jake Lang. Mayor Mamba barely mentioned them. His entire focus was the big, bad WHITE SUPREMACIST JAKE LANG –and making Muslims the Real Victims!
from March:
“… Last month in Minnesorta’, Lang was caught synchronizing his Koran-burning with his ANTIFA Partners. Fire and ICE-Out!
Now he’s working with his next partner, Mayor Mamba of NYC/Uganda. THEY ARE BOTH DEEP STATE PLANTS.
Did you notice how an FBI Agent was right there for the arrest?
This is just more Divide and Conquer Agit-Prop Theater, like using a Furry Fall Guy in Utah, Caesar Sayoc, the DC Pipe-Bomber, Q Shaman, FBI dressed as Nazis, FBI dressed as Patriot Front, etc.,etc.,etc. Or J6 itself.
The CIA is trying to start WWIII by blaming Putin for helping Iran with targeting, a bald-faced lie which PDT is not buying.
And the FBI is still playing the same old J6 Get Trump-Games.
Men in Bombing Incident Near Mamdani’s Home Motivated by ISIS, NYPD Says | The Epoch Times
I thought the CIA was using super-duper ISIS-K fall guys, after their Moscow Mall Massacre.
I guess we’re back to plain old workaday ISIS patsies now. No more Special-K.
Bor-ing.” ………
And this stinks like another Deep State Agit-Prop stunt.
Rest in the Vine: This Episode of Agit-Prop Theater is Brought to You by
FBI Double-Agent Jake Lang and his CIA-Installed Partner, Mayor Mamba of New York City!
And the other furry fall guy in Idaho.
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Iwonder if that snake is a protected species in Africa. You know because “they were here first”. That is the excuse for needing a permit to kill a rattlesnake in Colorado, or a wolf and bears too. sarc/
Looks like a crazy lone wolf amateur attack. But it’s worth considering if he had accomplices who aborted their roles at the last moment. (I see at least two long barrel weapons among the recovered evidence.) And as distractions go, that attack was a pretty good one.
He’s certainly not a very smart person. He got caught at the scene of his crime! I guess he’s a man in his 40’s and NOT a fast runner.
My guess is that he may have had accomplices that ghosted him as soon as the plan went sideways.
There appears to be a lot of video, from multiple angles.
A coincidence
or is it data gathering about responses etc…for … (a guess that no one will say, in advance…)?
p.s.
hopefully the security will review their own responses – for training…
I do not know
” data gathering about responses etc…”
That thought crossed my mind.
Cartel operation?
It seems an almost silly attack. To expose the defenses and response is the second most likely reason for the attack. The first remains lone wolf nutcase. How did the camera man (woman?) come to film this?
This can’t be real…Obama told me they were only here to pick produce.
He was just burning the chaff to produce nitrogen fertilizer for the next crop of sidewalk corn.
Can the plump Female ICE polezi please wear jeans that don’t have holes in the knees, and get a Size bigger too!!!
Sheesh DIE Hires
It’s all well and good to blame the Democrats. But leftist terrorism exists because it is permitted to operate.
We could track down the money behind Antifa and other leftwing terrorist groups and put their sponsors in prison. But we do not. Ask yourself why. Ask what would happen if a right winger did something similar? Ask J6’ers. Ask the right questions.
The D’s are simply the political arm of the enemy, much like Sinn Fein was the political arm of the IRA. They are not blameless by any means, but voting R will not end leftist terrorism in America. Imprisoning the organizers and money behind it just might, if it were permitted.
Trump needs to do the exact same type public speech as Biden did with the RED in the background and talk about the democrat domestic terror campaign going on right now in the USA . The only difference being there really is terrorism going on with the democrat party. They are Ultra Democrat Terrorist .
Seriously they need to clamp down on the Democrats Violence and start handing out 20 and 30 year sentences to these people. and their elected or installed reps are included . If the politicians encourage the terrorist then put them in prison also.
CommieMandami is encouraging this. It will only get worse.
AOC: “It is time for the North to roll up to the South.” (from RNC Research).
Yep. AOC appears to be calling for Civil War 2.0.
Is it any wonder we see crap like this NYC ICE attack when Democrats/Leftists/Globalist/Communists/DSA/MSM continually attack everything decent in this country and defend criminal activity?
This kind of vandalism is troubling, though perhaps unsurprising given the current climate in New York City under Mayor Mamdani. It’s not clear to me why this incident warrants such extensive coverage, or why Kash Patel is devoting attention to it rather than more pressing matters. Is he just virtue signalling?
Vandalism? Vandalism is when some punk spray paints some gang graffiti on the side of a building. This was terrorist trying to kill federal agents.
Ok, I hadn’t realized an explosive device had been used. To me it just looks like someone poured gasoline on the pavement out front and set it on fire to make a point…
Look like NYC is the new Marxist dumpster fire.
Even without the Marxists.