The incident happened around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday at the building, which also houses Atlanta’s immigration court. No injuries were reported.

The FBI is investigating after an incendiary device was thrown at a government building housing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices Tuesday.

The building also houses Atlanta’s immigration court.

  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
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    8 days ago

    LPT: Before filling your molotov, use a piece of diamond, quartz, or ceramic to scratch a few small lines into the bottle first. Doesn’t matter where; anywhere on the bottle will work. This creates weak points in the glass and makes it significantly more likely to shatter on impact.

      • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        Eh… Yes and no.

        Yes, they’re often very underwhelming compared to the Hollywood fireballs they’re often depicted as causing. And even with this glass-scoring trick, they don’t have a 100% success rate – if they hit something soft or if you’re just unlucky, they might not burst at all. They can also cause harm to the thrower or nearby bystanders if not used carefully.

        But they can be pretty effective in certain scenarios:

        A) They’re pretty good at setting buildings on fire. If the building is flammable enough for the flame to spread, that can be very effective, destroying entire buildings.

        B) They can be pretty good at quickly and permanently disabling vehicles. If the flames manage to burn or at least melt plastic/rubber parts (including tires), that can take a vehicle out of action. If the vehicle’s fuel or other flammable parts get ignited as well, it can completely destroy a vehicle. Even large armored vehicles can be vulnerable to very large molotovs or a sustained barrage of smaller ones – the flames can starve the surrounding air of oxygen, leaving none for the vehicle’s engine, causing it to stall and be a ‘sitting duck’ target for even more fire. And with enough time and intensity, the vehicle’s metal body will begin to transmit heat, turning the thing into an unbearable oven and forcing the crew to bail out or be roasted inside. Not to mention, if the windshield/windows/camera lenses get engulfed in flames, that will reduce or entirely eliminate the crew’s visibility, and a blinded vehicle is a crippled one – they can’t effectively move, maneuver, or shoot if their viewports are blocked by flame/soot.

        C) Fire can have an intense psychological effect. Even in situations where it doesn’t actually pose much threat to the enemy, fire is still scary. The heat and fear of the flames can break enemy lines and cause more cowardly enemies to retreat. (And a lot of them are very cowardly, when it comes to anything that actually puts them personally at risk.)

        Is it the ideal weapon for all occasions? Absolutely not. Is it a viable replacement for, say, a hand grenade? Not even that. But at the right place and the right time, they can be pretty impressively effective … especially when considering it’s something that can easily be home-made with readily available, untraceable and unrestricted ingredients. There are far more effective weapons out there … but most of those are much more difficult to get/make than a molotov.