Article titleBomb Explodes in Chicago-Area Target Bathroom

[mercuryblues]

Source: The Advocate

Police are investigating a possible hate crime after a small bomb exploded inside a women's bathroom at a Target store in Evanston, Ill., Wednesday.

There was minor damage to the women's bathroom, but no one was injured, Evanston Police Commander Joe Dugan told Chicago TV station WGN. Preliminary investigations indicate that the improvised explosive device may have been constructed from a plastic bottle, but it did not include any projectile objects, which would have caused more extensive damage.

The station reports that police are not ruling out the possibility that Wednesday's attack is somehow connected to the backlash the big-box retailer has faced since affirming in April that transgender customers and employees nationwide can use the store bathroom and changing room that corresponds with their gender identity.


Read more: http://www.advocate.com/crime/2016/6/09/bomb-explodes-chicago-area-target-bathroom

[IronLionZion]

1. This is some asshole's way of keeping women safe

glad no one was injured, but is wrong with people?

[yellowcanine]

6. She saved them having to share the bathroom with a trans person!

[jiminvegas]

2. I guess that's better than

someone using the bathroom that was born a male.

[NutmegYankee]

3. This is going to happen a lot more.

As the totalitarian religious right loses out on societal control they will lash out at it with violence.

[mopinko]

4. suspect in custody.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/evanston/crime/ct-evr-evanston-target-bathroom-explosion-tl-0616-20160609-story.html

[yellowcanine]

8. Hmm. Maybe a science experiment involving flatulence gone horribly wrong?

The source of the explosion may have been a plastic bottle, which investigators found in the stall, according to the release.

[LeftyMom]

10. Shake n' bake portable meth lab.

https://www.vice.com/read/crystal-meth-addicts-keep-setting-themselves-on-fire

[Person 2713]

5. Same assholes every year have to come up with something new to focus on and try to stir up hate

Hate is their thrill
Evanston is one of the last Chicago suburbs I would expect this violence . No matter where something like this happens, it is sick and scary.

[jpak]

7. But if the culprit is white and xian - it is not terror

yup

[surrealAmerican]

9. After reading a short piece in the local paper, I wanted to update people about this.

It appears to have been drug manufacturing gone wrong, not any sort of hate crime.

link to article, which differs somewhat from the print version:
http://evanstonroundtable.com/main.asp?SectionID=15&SubSectionID=26&ArticleID=12126&TM=40289.31

[csziggy]

11. Meth production has moved from Walmart bathrooms to Target's? nt

[surrealAmerican]

12. There are no Walmarts in this neighborhood...

... but that seems to be what they suspect.