Man tries to blow up Catholic Church in DC

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his goal was to try and kill 3 supreme court justices at the same time.

Washington, D.C., police on Sunday arrested a man with hundreds of explosive devices outside a church holding a Mass in honor of the Supreme Court. The man had a manifesto that suggested he was targeting the Supreme Court and Catholics, according to court papers obtained by The Daily Wire.

Louis Geri, a 41-year-old from Arizona and New Jersey, was apprehended outside the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle on October 5, the same day the church held its annual "Red Mass" in which a cardinal prays for the high court as it embarks on a new term, and which is historically attended by justices.

Geri was occupying a green tent on the steps of the church when police attempted to clear the area in preparation for the Supreme Court event. He told police, "You might want to stay back and call the federales, I have explosives," according to an affidavit.

A member of the Metropolitan Police Department's Bomb Squad then told him he needed to move because of a special event. He replied, "I'm aware of that (referring to the Red Mass)," police wrote, and threatened to throw a bomb into the street as a demonstration, adding, "I have a hundred plus of them."

Police said they would remove him against his will, and he replied, "Several of your people are gonna die from one of these." With a lighter in one hand, he handed them nine pieces of paper that amounted to a manifesto entitled, "Written Negotiations for the Avoidance of Destruction of Property via Detonation of Explosives."

The manifesto "revealed his significant animosity towards the Catholic church, members of the Jewish faith, members of SCOTUS and ICE/ ICE facilities," police wrote, indicating that the incident may be the latest in a string of left-wing domestic terrorism.

Geri "then shifted his right thumb over top of the butane lighter to initiate the lighting action and stated, 'You better have these people step away or there's going to be deaths.'"