The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department wants to find a woman in a video trying to burn down a warehouse that would have been sold to ICE.
ICE wanted to use the warehouse as a detention facility.
“KMBC 9 reporter Andy Alcock said he witnessed the woman throw what appeared to be a liquid onto the windows before the fire started,” according to the station.
Platform Ventures, which owns the building, said it decided “not to move forward” with the sale.
Reports in January said the investment firm had entered into a deal with ICE.
It turns out Platform Ventures started negotiations and pulled out:
But Platform Ventures set the record straight, issuing a statement Feb. 12 after “baseless speculation, inaccurate narratives and serious threats toward leadership” led the company to address the property and sale.”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,” Platform Ventures said.”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 said in its new statement. “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.”
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