russian military blogger has been killed in an explosion at a cafe and st petersburg, russia. here is new video showing the aftermath. several others were injured in the blast. that s according to russian state media . the explosion also caused the building s facade to collapse. cnn s matthew chance is in russia. matthew what are you learning? wow. i mean, you know you can see the pictures there. there s a police cordon all around that cafe in st petersburg, where there was an explosion inside, and it is killed, one of the country s most prominent pro war military bloggers. his name is vlad lynn to task. at least that s what he goes by, and his blog he s got his real name is something else called maxim farming, but that s that s what his blogs called that s. that s the name under which he writes and he is well known in russia has got more than half a million followers on his channel, his telegram channel and is well known for being very aggressive, very pro war he wants in
it s rhetoric that we have heard time and time again. and the challenge with that for a law enforcement is that we don t have to, you know, guess whether or not that rhetoric can transcend into physical violence. we know it can. and that s the danger that the public faces, you know, on an event like this on the president s arrest is that someone will receive that message, will, you know, will basically take that as a call to action to do something nefarious, you know, whether it s on tuesday or towards the fbi or towards, you know, court officials. that is the danger here. that rhetoric transcending into direct physical violence. we know that can happen. that s why you are going to see this overwhelming show of force by law enforcement, you know, throughout, you know, the miami metro area upon president trump s arrival is because they want to show that you cannot do that, right. like it s not an eye for an eye. you are not going through a person.
this indictment. we know there s also in that coordination between nypd as well. well good afternoon, fred. you know the secret service they re going to be following the same protective methodologies and protocols that they do every single day with the former president, and it s really broken down into three parts. the first is understanding the intelligence. what is the threat environment that the former president is going to be entering into? you know, we know that the to malton divisiveness of the political environment actually can fuel um , you know, increased threats and actually on in fuel online rhetoric transcending into violence, so the secret service is very mindful of that. so they re working with their intelligence partners with the nypd in federal counterparts to understand any type of change in that environment in that actually leads into the actual security planning. so the security planning is unique here. typically, we see the secret service in a lead role. for tuesday
shootings within a week. what s going on in this country? well, listen, there s a lot there s a lot to unpack here. just look at the two shootings this weekend. 13 hours apart. we have 29 dead. two different scenarios here, though. in texas, you do have this now being considered an act of domestic terrorism. that is, you know, where targeted acts of violence were caused by somebody who has a particular ideology. and this is now, you know, in the united states this is something that we re talking about extensively right now, is the proliferation of hate, whether it s online or within chat groups, you know, across the country. the rhetoric transcending into physical action, and that s what we saw, you know, earlier on saturday. sunday, dayton, ohio, different scenario. we still don t know the actual motive, but we do know the intent. the intent of that individual was to, you know, cause destruction and harm immediately at a at a great amount based