11 killed in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

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PITTSBURGH — A man armed with a semiautomatic assault-style rifle stormed the Tree of Life synagogue here Saturday and shot worshipers during Shabbat services, killing 11 and wounding six in the deadliest attack on Jews in the history of the United States.

The mass shooting targeted members of a synagogue that is an anchor of Pittsburgh’s large and close-knit Jewish community, a massacre that authorities immediately labeled a hate crime as they investigated the suspect’s history of anti-Semitic online screeds.

Law enforcement officials identified the alleged shooter as Robert D. Bowers, 46, a Pittsburgh resident who the FBI said was not previously known to law enforcement. He was charged with 29 counts of federal crimes of violence and firearms offenses, federal prosecutors said late Saturday.

A man with that name had posted anti-Semitic statements on social media before the shooting, expressing anger that a nonprofit Jewish organization in the neighborhood has helped refugees settle in the United States. In what appeared to be his final social media post hours before the attack, the man wrote: “I can’t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I’m going in.”

Bowers allegedly burst into the synagogue’s regular Saturday 9:45 a.m. service with an AR-15-style assault rifle and three handguns, authorities said. Witnesses told police he shouted anti-Semitic statements and began firing. The synagogue, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood, did not have armed security guards.

Police received calls about an active shooter at 9:54 a.m. and dispatched officers a minute later. Police said Bowers left the building and encountered the responding officers, shooting one before retreating into the synagogue to hide. More officers responded and, after an exchange of gunfire, Bowers suffered multiple gunshot wounds, was arrested and was taken to a hospital, authorities said.

Four police officers were shot during the response and were in stable condition late Saturday. It was unclear late Saturday whether Bowers was speaking with authorities or had an attorney.

Federal prosecutors filed 29 counts against Bowers, charging him with federal civil rights crimes. Bowers was charged with obstructing exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death, using a firearm to commit murder during a crime of violence, obstructing exercise of religious beliefs resulting in an injury to a public safety officer and using a firearm during a crime of violence.

The charges were announced in a statement released by Scott W. Brady, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, and Robert Jones, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh office. Court documents were not immediately available and were expected to be released Sunday morning.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10/27/pittsburgh-police-responding-active-shooting-squirrel-hill-area/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.55a3170ac434
 
Le gars était malade mentale. C'étais pas la faute du gun. C'est pas le gun qui s'est levé a matin pour aller tuer tout ses gens.

Make America great again. Ça s'améliore on le voit bien.
 
INB4 Si les armes avaient des synagoges ils auraient pu être fidèle.

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On dirait que le monde est incapable d'etre logique dans le débat des armes a feu.

Tu as les CONS qui croient que la violence cesserait sans arme et a l'autre extrémité les imbéciles de la NRA qui croient qu'il faut armer tout le monde....
 
comme dit le maire de londre Sadiq Khan. C'est la nouvelle réalité des grand villes moderne.
 
5$ says those were scary looking black guns. White guns simply wouldn't do something like that.*
 
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On dirait que le monde est incapable d'etre logique dans le débat des armes a feu.

Tu as les CONS qui croient que la violence cesserait sans arme et a l'autre extrémité les imbéciles de la NRA qui croient qu'il faut armer tout le monde....
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autant que tu as raison, qu'on arrêtera jamais la violence, gun or no gun, donner accès à des à feu à tout le monde c'est d'accepter ses situations comme celle-là qui est maintenant une norme aux USA. Ya plein de gens qui sont très heureux et rationnels, et il y en a qui sont débile. Ya des gens normaux qui pètent une coche, ya des gens qui sont atteintent de maladie mentale, d'autres qui vivent une vie difficile, d'autres qui avaient une belle vie qui s'écroule dans leur face. Et pour quelques centaines de dollars, chacune de ces personnes peuvent aller se chercher un outil qui peut enlever et détruire pleins de vies par minute aussi facilement qu'un simple tire sur une gachette. Bel outil ça.

Chez pas pour vous autres, mais je ne serais vraiment pas surpris de voir ça dans les headlines aux 2 mois.
 
We can blame guns, rightly so.

We should blame social media that are giving voice to every fucking imbecile on the face of the earth too though.
 
Je suis tellement tanné du hate extrême. Ont dirait qu'on ne peut plus être en désaccord avec qu'un ou un groupe de personne sans vouloir les détruire.

Les fou de l'extrême droite qui font sauter du monde ou qui s'attaque a des mosquées ou des synagogues.

Les extrémistes islamistes qui en font tout au tant.

Les fous de l'Antifa qui suivent pas trop loin derrière.

Il se passe quoi avec le dialogue et le débat publique civilisé?
 
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It is sickening whether it's religious ideologies or mental illness (I guess one encompasses the other).
 
Ça pourrait être pire , un extrémiste dans le genre Timothy McVeigh qui fait sauté un édifice avec un van et du carburant/nitrate d"ammonium
 
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Ça pourrait être pire , un extrémiste dans le genre Timothy McVeigh qui fait sauté un édifice avec un van et du carburant/nitrate d"ammonium
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Yeah, not only did he kill people directly, he also blew up all the hard copy medical files that were being compiled to bring a multi billion dollar lawsuit against the government for depleted uranium poisoning "gulf war syndrome".

Look this is probably just another case of a guy going off the deep end and doing something atrocious but always ask yourself what comes out of it?

In this case let's see what becomes of it. Already they've used it to take down Gab
 
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Yeah, not only did he kill people directly, he also blew up all the hard copy medical files that were being compiled to bring a multi billion dollar lawsuit against the government for depleted uranium poisoning "gulf war syndrome".

Look this is probably just another case of a guy going off the deep end and doing something atrocious but always ask yourself what comes out of it?

In this case let's see what becomes of it. Already they've used it to take down Gab
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ta trop écouté Arlington Road avec Tim Robbins/Jeff Bridges
 
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