Muslim group claims tip of Nashville bomber would’ve been taken more seriously if he wasn’t white

December 31, 2020   

(WKRN) The American Muslim Advisory Council in Tennessee is calling out law enforcement after the Christmas Day bombing in Nashville, saying the tip warning them in 2019 would have been taken a lot more seriously if the suspect had not been white.

While authorities have not identified a motive yet and have not called it an act of terrorism, media learned that the Metro Nashville Police Department was tipped off to Anthony Warner making a bomb back in 2019.

“As Muslims, everyone is looking at this and shaking their head and just saying, ‘Well, if this guy was Muslim, things would be very different at this point,’” executive director of the American Muslim Advisory Council Sabina Mohyuddin told News 2.

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