Alan Haasman stopped the mid-speech during the phone call, then said that he was still staggering from “the back of the survivor”.
The courage said that he can clearly remember Life tree worship After being alert for a shoot in Pittsburgh. But the road was irrelevant. Later memories are indelible.
“Every time I see another attack, it happens as if someone scratched my wound,” Hosman said, who is the chairman of the board of directors of the Sainagogue. He was not attending the synagogue on the day of the shooting of October 2018, killing 11 people.
The massacre resulted in 63 cases, including allegations of hatred crime, resulting Punishment and death sentence Against the gunman.
An emergency management officer in Pittsburgh said Hosman said that there is now armed security in Tree of Life, as other religious institutions and organizations in the city and region. Pooja houses have installed new alarm systems, and the security guards have to cry in the parking lot to prevent future dangers, they said.
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According to FBI figures and officials of the Department of Justice, who spoke with CBS News, the Tree of Life tragedy did not slow down the target of religious institutions, but was an early warning of recent wave of planned attacks.
The FBI crime report reviewed against people in CBS news show attacks or churches, adornments, temples and mosques increased by nearly 100% between 2021 and 2023.
In an interview with CBS News, Assistant Attorney General Hormate Dhillon for civil rights referred to a growing pile at his desk of his criminal cases that accuse of targeting religious centers.
“I think this is a form of terrorism, as the attacks on churches are to terrorize people,” Dhillon said. “And they are to prevent people from going there. And so it makes everyone feel insecure.”
On 18 June, the prosecutors of the Department of Justice achieved a 25 -year prison period in the case of Rui Zhang in Virginia. Zhang was convicted of targeting a Hamarket, Virginia, Church for an attack. The prosecutors alleged that Zhang had written an a declaration, and he was with a semi -utomatic handgun, two ammunition magazines and two knives inside a Sunday service in the church. He allegedly had a canister of additional ammunition, knife and bear spray in the car near him.
In April, the Department of Justice also acquired an Arizona person to target a series of churches. According to investigators, Zimnako Saleh “traveled to four Christian churches in Arizona, California and Colorado, wearing black backpacks. In two of those churches, advice, advisory, imposed the backpax, causing the congregation to be put in fear that they involve bombs.
In the other two churches, the advice was encountered by safety, before he got a chance to install those backpacks. Photos of backpacks and movements were included in charging documents from the day of attempt to attack inside the churches.
Dhillon said that investigators of civil rights have made more focused efforts to combat the targeting of the houses of worship.
“We want to stop the danger by ensuring that no one is feeling like churches, the house of worship, people of faith are soft goals in the United States,” said Dhillon. “That’s why this is a priority.”
There is a growing wave of dangers against religious centers-at least partially-partially-to-leopy white nationalism or targeting of minority groups or churches that are welcoming LGBTQ communities, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a generous non-profit organization focuses on issues of civil rights and focuses on harassed crime.
RG Krensman, a researcher from SPLC, said, “One of the 10 that we carried out in the first six months of 2024 were also focused on ‘welcoming religious communities’.”
Cravens said, “We have seen an increase in the synagogue being targeted for similar things like barbarity, frescoes and harassment since October 7 (attacks) in Israel.” “And they come in a lot of forms that often include hard white nationalist and white domination groups.”
Dhillon directed CBS News in several other recent cases under investigation by the Department of Justice. In February, 36 -year -old Kevin Colentonio of Road Island convicted a federal criminal accusation at the northern Providence, mainly around the outer part of the black church.
Federal criminal cases create the possibility of long prison conditions. Zhang’s jail period lasts till 2050.
Dhillon said that under the new leadership of the Department of Justice, there is a request in dealing with these cases, hating allegations of crime filed against a person who allegedly used Molotov cocktails to attack peaceful marches in Boulder, Colorado on 1 June.
“We were all on it. And we have described the fastest hatred crime criminal complaint in recent history,” said Dhillon. “It is important for the community to be targeted to feel and see that the United States is taking these crimes with great seriousness.”
The Department of Justice is preparing to hear the August court in the case of Elias Rodriguez, which is accused of targeting and killing two Israeli embassy officials in Washington, DC last month.
Rodriguez allegedly shot dead victim – Israeli ambassador to the US, according to the Yachil letter, a couple about engagement – as they were leaving the museum, located in the center of the American capital. According to the police and video from the scene, he shouted “free, free Palestine” as he was being detained.
Within 24 hours, the Department of Justice announced that the case was being investigated as a possible hatred crime. Rodriguez is being kept in pre -custody.
