Man Charged With Trying to Blow Up Confederate Statue

There is a nationwide debate over what to do about Confederate statues—but just about everybody agrees that Andrew Schneck's approach is not the way forward. 

The 25-year-old man was arrested Saturday for allegedly trying to blow up a statute of Confederate Lt. Dick Dowling in Houston's Hermann Park, CNN reports. 

According to court documents, a park ranger spotted Schneck kneeling in the bushes near the statue with boxes containing a detonator, a timer, and a bottle of nitroglycerin, among other items. The ranger says that when she confronted him, he tried to drink some of the liquid explosive before spitting it out on the ground.

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