Minnesota: Bucket of IIDs Brought to Hospital, 1 Arrested
On 20 June 2024, at approximately 0930 hours local time, hospital security staff requested assistance from an off-duty Saint Paul Police Department officer to assist with a man who parked a vehicle outside the hospital entrance and was talking with security staff. Security alerted police to the possibility of improvised incendiary devices (IIDs), described as Molotov cocktails, in the vehicle. The officer looked in the vehicle and saw a bucket of containers with an unknown fluid and rags stuffed in the top, alongside a crossbow and an arrow.