US man arrested for attempting to plant bomb at New York Stock Exchange building

A Florida man was arrested Wednesday and charged with a plot to “reboot” the US government by planting a bomb at the New York Stock Exchange this week and detonating it with a remote-controlled device, according to the FBI. “The Stock Exchange, we want to hit that, because it will wake people up,” he told undercover FBI agents, according to court documents. Yener, who was described as “unhoused,” wanted to bomb the stock exchange in order to “reboot” the U.S. government, explaining that it would be “like a small nuke went off,” killing everyone inside the building, according to court documents. He was fired last year from a restaurant in Coconut Creek, Florida, after his former supervisor said he threatened to “get a Parkland shooter in this place.” He was also part of a small group that tried to join the far-right anti-government group the “Boogaloo Bois” and extremist group the Proud Boys, but was denied membership because he said he wanted “to pursue martyrdom,” according to court documents.