Police in Berkeley, California, are seeking information about a woman captured on camera trying to set a Black church on fire.
“Watching the video, I feel it deeply,” Berkeley City Council member Ben Bartlett told KPIX. “It’s an attack on all of us, and going back in history, the fair housing act came from this neighborhood and when they were passing it, people threw bricks though their windows.”
Security footage shows that the woman approached Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church on Aug. 14 and attempted to tried to set it ablaze by throwing bricks at the window and pouring lighter fluid on the grass. The woman came back twice to try to get the fire to start but failed.
“By the grace of God the lighter wouldn’t take, it wouldn’t come on full force and nothing was being lit up,” said lead pastor Kevin Craddock II.
