Man accused of setting fire outside NYC federal building ^⁠99%

7/21/2026, 4:47:40 AM

Topics: Video

BS Summary: This video contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Confirmation Bias, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 53.4% saturation with 132 hits. Analysis detected 902 faulty-reasoning hits from 247 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 98.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠99% (357 of 21,179 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 98.30% of the video peer group.

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Tonight, a federal investigation into this terrifying scene in New York City.

Video from witnesses showing a man pouring a liquid outside a federal building home to an immigration and customs office igniting a massive blaze.

>> To actually witness it was definitely alarm.

>> Investigators say the suspect ignited an apparent bundle of fireworks, fired an airsoft rifle, and lit this fire in an incident that injured three people this morning.

You can see him lobbing something towards the entrance before he is tackled.

Other angles show a scuffle with officers, some with weapons drawn, emerging from the smoky entrance, then escorting the suspect in all black and handcuffed away.

The FBI identifying the suspect as 43-year-old Andrew Arabaka.

>> He did say he was targeting the building and he was okay if he hurt or killed people going in and out of the building.

>> Are you investigating this as a possible act of terrorism?

We're invest we're collecting the evidence and we we know there were anti-government and anti-American statements made.

>> Investigators in hazmat suits now combing through the aftermath recovering the FBI says axes, a machete, knives, and a cart with a sign reading ice off our streets as tensions have flared near ICE facilities nationwide.

Investigators say the suspect is a US Army veteran who has had several encounters with law enforcement, but nothing to this degree.

Charges are still being determined.

247 words analyzed.

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11 attributed words30% of attributed speech100% writer coverage

No manipulation-pattern hits were found in this speaker's attributed words or the writer's voice.

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Man accused of setting fire outside NYC federal building ^⁠99%

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Andrew Arabaka

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Man accused of setting fire outside NYC federal building ⁠99%

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Andrew Arabaka

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Man accused of setting fire outside NYC federal building ^⁠99%