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While cable networks showed footage of the fatal terrorist attacks in Paris, Americans took to Twitter to share news of a suspected domestic terror attack.

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While cable networks showed footage of the fatal terrorist attacks in Paris, Americans took to Twitter to share news of a suspected terror attack on U.S. soil.

On Jan. 6, a bomb detonated outside the NAACP building on South El Paso Street in Colorado Springs. The device malfunctioned, and while the building was slightly burnt, no one was injured.

Using the hashtag #NAACPbombing, people around the country shared what many are calling an attack on the civil rights organization, whose most recent effort had included campaigns calling for justice for Michael Brown, the unarmed teen shot by a police office in Ferguson. The national branch of the NAACP released a statement that it, "looks forward to a full and thorough investigation into this matter by federal agents and local law enforcement."

On Twitter, many expressed anger and grief that the incident was overshadowed in the media. 

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