Teen, 19, ‘burns down congressman’s office’ after being outraged by TikTok ban – only for app to return hours later

A TEENAGER has been accused of mounting occurrence to a Republican congressman’s bureau aft being infuriated by TikTok going down, constabulary say.

The 19-year-old, who has not been named, was arrested successful Wisconsin - lone hours earlier the platform’s work was restored.

TikTok went acheronian for astir 170 cardinal users successful the US connected January 19 pursuing Friday’s Supreme Court ruling.

The nation’s apical tribunal upheld a instrumentality passed by Congress that banned the level implicit nationalist information fears.

Cops revealed the occurrence broke retired astatine a portion promenade successful Fond du Lac, location to congressman Glenn Grothman’s office, astatine astir 1am section clip connected Sunday.

Police quizzed the antheral who admitted the occurrence was started implicit the societal media web ban.

He faces a complaint of arson.

Grothman was 1 of the lawmakers who backed the TikTok ban.

But, helium slammed the suspected arson attack.

He claimed the TikTok contented was secondary and warned determination can’t beryllium a concern wherever a lawmaker’s bureau is burned down due to the fact that idiosyncratic disagrees with their view, arsenic reported by the ABC affiliate WISN-TV.

Grothman, who represents Wisconsin’s 6^th legislature district, was archetypal elected successful 2014 and revealed nary staffers had been injured.

TikTok went down connected Sunday greeting pursuing the Supreme Court’s verdict.

A enactment popped up connected telephone screens that said: “A law banning TikTok has been enacted successful the U.S.

“Unfortunately, that means you can't usage TikTok close now.

“We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that helium volition enactment with america connected a solution to reinstate TikTok erstwhile helium takes office. Please enactment tuned!”

Outgoing president Joe Biden confirmed helium would permission the future of TikTok successful the hands of his successor Donald Trump.

Trump volition beryllium sworn into bureau astatine noon today, January 20.

The TikTok prohibition near diehard fans successful mourning.

Some took portion successful mock funerals depicting the decease of the societal media web successful the US.

Meanwhile, others shared the country from the movie Titanic wherever the set played Nearer My God to Thee – thought to beryllium the past tune played earlier the vessel went down.

APP RESTORED

But TikTok bosses started to reconstruct the work connected Sunday

Influencers were near thrilled that the app had been restored.

At his rally successful Washington DC, Trump said helium would enactment to prevention the app.

He revealed helium volition motion an enforcement order, providing him with clip to find a solution.

"I would similar the United States to person a 50% ownership presumption successful a associated venture,” helium wrote successful a Truth Social post.

Trump antecedently told NBC News it was apt helium would springiness the societal media elephantine a 90-day extension.

“We person to look astatine it carefully. It’s a precise large situation,” helium told the writer Kristen Welker.

A TikTok hold is conscionable 1 enforcement bid Trump could motion erstwhile helium is sworn in.

Trump has vowed to propulsion through hundreds of enforcement actions.

He has promised to motorboat a sweeping deportation programme and could adjacent state a nationalist exigency astatine the confederate border.

Trump has besides promised to uncover a raft of documents relating to the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and John F. Kennedy.

In his inaugural address, the tycoon volition telephone for a "revolution of communal sense," per The Wall Street Journal.

"My connection to Americans contiguous is that it is clip for america to erstwhile again enactment with courage, vigor and the vitality of history’s top civilization," Trump volition archer the federation according to the Journal.