Early Wednesday morning an outside camera caught a man throwing a rock through the front door of the Travis County Democratic Party office on East 6th Street.

“Comes back up with what appears to be an incendiary device and places it inside the building and then the fire starts to ignite,” said Austin arson investigator Captain Brandon Jennings.

Jennings says the Molotov cocktail could have easily done more damage if it hadn't just been set down inside the door.

“The use of an incendiary device like this is typically to throw it at something. Once you light it and the liquid comes out and catches on fire, the fire spreads upward and outward and does more damage,” said Jennings.

Building damage was also minimized because people at the bar across the street spotted the first flames and put them out with a fire extinguisher.

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