'Anti-ICE' Army veteran set fire outside Manhattan federal building, say officials - BBC

Andrew Arrabaca, 43, a former US Army soldier from Poughkeepsie, New York, was arrested after allegedly setting a fire outside 26 Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan on Monday morning, according to the FBI.
The building houses offices for the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and US Citizenship and Immigration Services, and has become a focal point for protests against President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
Officials say Arrabaca launched fireworks and poured an accelerant on the stairs of a building entrance, sparking a blaze later extinguished by the fire department, and fired five to seven pellets from an airsoft gun toward the building.
FBI New York Assistant Director James Barnacle said the suspect was armed with two axes, a machete, three knives and fireworks, and made "anti-government and anti-ICE statements," describing him as an "anti-American, anti-government extremist."
Three people suffered minor injuries, including two government employees, an immigrant attending a status hearing who was grazed, and a security officer who tackled and detained the suspect; the Department of Homeland Security labelled Arrabaca an "anti-ICE rioter."
Arrabaca served in the regular Army from 2001 to 2004 and the Army National Guard in New York from 2004 to 2005, with no deployments, leaving as a specialist; New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the incident "deeply disturbing" and pledged accountability for those threatening residents' safety.