Woman Caught on Camera Attempting to Ignite Kansas City Warehouse Amid Detention Center Controversy
A woman was captured on surveillance footage attempting to ignite a warehouse in south Kansas City, Missouri, a property that had recently been the subject of rumors regarding its potential conversion into a federal immigration detention facility.
The incident occurred Thursday at a warehouse in the 49 Crossing industrial complex, also referred to as the I-49 Industrial Center, located at approximately 14901 Botts Road. Video obtained by local outlet KMBC shows the suspect—wearing sandals, jeans, and a short-sleeve black shirt and carrying a small backpack—pouring what appeared to be a liquid accelerant along the side of the building before attempting to light it with matches. A second container of accelerant was visible near her feet.
WATCH: Woman sets FIRE to warehouse rumored to be ‘ICE detention center’ in Kansas City, Missouri pic.twitter.com/7XSaPSCWQL
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Flames briefly flared near windows and ground-level areas of the structure. Firefighters from Grandview responded quickly and extinguished the blaze. Authorities reported no injuries and no significant structural damage.
Kansas City police, alongside the department’s Bomb and Arson Team, have opened an investigation into the attempted arson. As of late Thursday evening, no arrests had been made.
The warehouse property, owned by Platform Ventures, has drawn intense local scrutiny since January, when speculation surfaced that it might be sold to the U.S. government—specifically for use by the Department of Homeland Security or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—as a large-scale immigration detention center. The prospect prompted protests and criticism from local officials who raised concerns about the humanitarian implications of such a facility.
On February 12, Platform Ventures announced it would not proceed with any sale. In a public statement, the company said initial negotiations had been conducted with a private third party but that it later learned the prospective buyer was the U.S. government. The final terms, the company explained, did not align with its fiduciary responsibilities.
“Platform Ventures is not actively engaged with the U.S. Government or any other prospective purchaser involving a sale of its property at the I-49 Industrial Center,” the statement read.
“As we stated previously, we were approached by a third-party private enterprise for this transaction and entered into preliminary negotiations consistent with the fiduciary duties owed to our investors,” Platform Ventures explained. “As negotiations concluded, we learned the purchasing party was the U.S. Government. Over the course of the building sale process, we determined that the terms no longer met our fiduciary requirements for a timely closing. Therefore, we chose not to move forward.”
The attempted arson occurred shortly after news of the canceled sale became public and as a KMBC reporter was on-site covering the development.
The episode unfolds amid a broader realization among the public that the left is becoming more and more willing to perpetrate violence to get their way and the media has become more and more accepting of it. For now, investigators are focused on identifying the suspect seen in the footage and determining whether the act was politically motivated—or the work of a lone individual acting independently in an already volatile atmosphere.
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The lame stream media isn’t just ‘accepting’ the escalating violence, they are ENCOURAGING it. After all, the sooner that they can facilitate the collapse of the Republic, the sooner they can institute their version of ‘utopia’. Show me I’m wrong.
Crazzzzzzyyyyyy! If the ICE rumors were true, and the fire had been successful, she might have killed the illegals she was trying to protect.