Police said a suspect was in custody after the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum
A suspect is in custody after shooting dead two Israeli embassy staff outside a Jewish museum in Washington on Wednesday night.
The gunman, named by police as Elias Rodriguez, 30, of Chicago, approached a group of four people leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum and opened fire, killing Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.
Metropolitan police chief Pamela Smith said the shooter had been pacing outside the museum, which is steps away from the FBI’s field office, before the shooting.
After killing the pair, who officials said were a couple, he walked inside, where event security detained him. The suspect yelled: “Free, free Palestine,” after he was arrested, police said.
How do you know they were lobbying for genocide? For all we know they were against it and working for a peaceful solution. Not everyone who works for a government is part of the ideology. That’s no better than saying every Democrat is MAGA.
Yeah ,maybe they felt really bad for all the children the Israelis target and the starvation of the population of 2.3 million.
You are high on something, this is not how Zionism works. Most Israelis support the genocide.
Most Israelis support Israel which, until a few years ago, was a-ok on account of the previous thousands of years of persecution in every other country in the world, cresting in the unpleasantness of the early-mid 1900s which set quite the bar for evil and horror.
Then Likud - like all republiQan, right-wing authoritarian regimes - seized power and started fucking everything up in incredible, outrageous ways. Americans should be familiar.
I don’t know what they did for the embassy, but it could be something utterly harmless and treating them like enemy combatants when they’re in an entirely different country at a museum is wrong.
I get the hate at the Likud/IDF for the genocide. Y’all are losing the plot by thinking this is ok though. It is very much not okay.
Maybe they did, which is why they were at an event to discuss delivering more aid to Gaza.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cy9vr10n732t
These were young idealists trying to make a change. But the shooter didn’t care about the distinction, and it seems many others don’t either.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk2264nrn2o
Ambassadors are appointed. If they were not in favor of the administration they would be recalled and replaced by ones that were.
It is beyond the shadow of a doubt that these people were directly involved in advocating for greater crackdowns on pro-Palestine antigenocide protesting.
It is a shame that they were murdered. It’s a greater shame that the deaths of these two people who consented to be a part of a war machine will get greater attention than the thousands of children they spent their final days ensuring would starve.
These two people are not anymore important than the hundreds of journalists doctors and aid workers Israel has murdered in their genocidal pursuit of their purified ethnostate.
These two people lived by the sword. These two people died by the sword. There are bigger problems in the world than the death of two soldiers in a war.
I suppose, but they weren’t ambassadors. So - that’s wrong.
Damn, a shadow of a doubt?! Holy shit you must have the motherfucking receipts on these sumbitches, let’s see it! Whatcha got, facebook post? Tiktok? Some sort of cleverly disguised academic treatise?
Yeah you got nothing. GTFO.
Oh FFS.
Dumbass take.
Counter point: how do you know they weren’t…?
What about where to draw the line? Everyday the money we use is funneled to some corporation that has a hand in the human suffering that happens around the globe. When is there evil transfered to me because I contributed to their successs.
I’d say the line is crossed when you have agency and knowingly use it to perpetuate suffering.
Everyone has agency to be more decerning with their purchases.
You just have to check Lischinsky tweets and retweet oposing a palestinian state because it would be a gift to Khamas