Thousands Left Without Power In Washington After Attack On Substations

Thousands were left without power after three electricity substations were attacked in the Tacoma, Washington area on Sunday. Police had described the attacks as acts of vandalism and have yet to identify any suspects.

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[regs]

Why is this terrorist attack being call an act of vandalism. All efforts should be made to find and prosecute these individuals as terrorists.

[CanyonsCarver]

Domestic terrorist is a serious crime. Keep an eye out!

[teenytinytoons]

You’re telling me there aren’t any surveillance cameras around your energy infrastructure?

[SamLowryDZ-]

America is beginning to realise how fragile their infrastructure is when attacked from within the country by domestic terrorists.

[bolanosdavid]

Acts of vandalism smh this is called terrorism smdh

[CdEyes]

It's not an act of vandalism, it's an act of terrorism. Targeting infrastructure with the purpose of disruption goes far beyond vandalism and you have the responsibility as a news network to call it out for what it is.

[LordOfLight]

"Vandalism" seems a very tame term for an act that cuts power to thousands at a time when the country is freezing.

[HeartDocAndrew]

"Thousands were left without power after three electricity substations were attacked in the Tacoma (by disgraced TRE45ON TrumPutian terrorists)" so let's otherwise "Convince It Forward" and Laus DEO

[DonnieIsNotAmerican]

No security, no surveillance, and no protection of any kind for power grids. What did you expect?

[rovermiles]

I dont know how the Sheriff's department qualify this as "vandalism". Anytime infrastructure is damaged to the point of being non-functional ought to be called "terrorism" or "war". Is Russia's bombing of infrastructure in Ukraine called "vandalism"? Come on "main stream media", get it together - this is a terror attack by some bored people or nut jobs and ought to be prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law. Not taking these acts seriously and treating it like a misdemeanor does little to mitigate those who would commit similar attacks. If you will not provide the precision of language necessary to dissuade future events, I'd rather you not cover these events at all; as all your doing is inspiring copy cats.

[markusmuller]

An employee of the electric company? Who else could know how to do that?

[cajuncyclerestorations]

only 33 seconds on this major problem?

[angle]

An act of domestic terrorism not vandalism. Smh

[ArchFundy]

This is way more than vandalism. It's terrorism. If anyone dies because of this they should be classed as murderers.

[OMGFrijoles]

They haven't even caught the guys last time, and now this...

[minutesago]

Death Penalty.
And I'm a liberal.

[lelandgaunt]

The longer it takes to apprehend these folks it will only embolden others to do the same. There are 3 tiers to this.

[jackychan]

Whoever did this need to be punished. This is not funny.

[suezbell]

Vandals ... or Putin testing how to create chaos?

[chrisjames]

Brick walls should be built around sub-stations. They're far too vulnerable.