Oklahoma man accused of targeting television news weather radar
Source: msn/NBC News
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An Oklahoma man is accused of vandalizing a TV station's weather radar, police said Thursday, in what the station says could be an attack inspired by an anti-government militia group. Anthony Tyler Mitchell, 39, has been booked on suspicion of felony malicious injury to property, burglary and damage to critical infrastructure, Oklahoma City police Capt. Valerie Littlejohn said in a statement.
CBS affiliate KWTV reported that it has video of a man destroying the power supply to the station's NextGen Live radar in northeast Oklahoma City. The station linked the attack to rhetoric by Veterans On Patrol, an anti-government militia group. "At this time, we are not able to confirm any connection with him and the group Veterans on Patrol," Littlejohn said.
In an interview with NBC News on Thursday, group founder Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer denied giving any directions to attack weather equipment. But he welcomed such acts in Oklahoma, insisting that radars and other meteorological equipment are part of a government conspiracy to manipulate weather. The claims of such conspiracy are baseless.
"When we destroy and eliminate over 15 in a state of Oklahoma, your radar maps are going to change big time, and the weather is just going to be completely different over Oklahoma and the surrounding area," he said Thursday.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/oklahoma-man-accused-of-targeting-television-news-weather-radar/ar-AA1InhtD
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This is almost worse than the spate of RW loons shooting up power substations. If they decide to go after the NWS NEXRAD radars, which take awhile to repair, and where many of them are older and are continually needing maintenance, then this will really be bad news.
And in this case, this happened in of all places - OK - where NOAA's SPC (the Storm Prediction Center) is headquartered. They are usually the ones who issue Severe Thunderstorm Watches nationally (where the local NWS offices will issue the Warnings).
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we can't call them terrorists for some reason 
Of course educated normal people know radar is used to track and predict storms and their trajectory. So if these idiots destroy the equipment, people in the area won't know when storms are headed their way. It can be a big problem for tornadoes too in that part of the country.
......no way our FBI will investigate. Free pass these days. 
I'll bet mooching off his trumper parents. Just like that J6 Shaman clown.
