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STORY: Police swarmed the Pearl Street Mall area of Boulder, Colorado on Sunday (June 1) after a male suspect was taken into custody following an attack that left multiple people with burns, in what the FBI director described as a "targeted" act of terror.

Information on the attack, which occurred near a demonstration to remember the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza, was “very preliminary,” according to Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn, but he noted the man was apprehended following calls to police dispatch of someone with a weapon who was “setting people on fire.”

FBI Director Kash Patel described the incident as a "targeted terror attack," and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said it appeared to be "a hate crime given the group that was targeted." But Redfearn stressed it was too soon to speculate about a motive.

The incident comes amid heightened tensions in the United States over Israel's war in Gaza, which has spurred both an increase in antisemitic hate crime as well as moves by conservative supporters of Israel led by President Donald Trump to brand pro-Palestinian protests as antisemitic.