as justification by several other mass shooters, including the 2019 walmart incident in el paso, texas, that killed 23, the 2018 pittsburgh s tree of life synagogue shooting that killed 11, the shooting at a south carolina church that killed 9, a congregant in poway, california. it is not just deranged gunmen who believed the theory. you also remember the rallying cry in charlottesville 2017. roll that audio. jes will not replace us. jews will not replace us. according to a recent poll, when presented with the statement there is a group of people in this country trying to replace native born americans with immigrants who agree with their political views, 32% of americans agreed. on most of the big social platforms hate speech directed at a specific group and related
devices were found at the scene. we located several bags within the facility. they contained magazines with additional ammo, four molotov cocktail like incendiary devices he had placed around the inside of the church. a local city council member with ties to the church spoke to one man who was in the church during the shooting. i heard from one of the congregant who told me that everyone was taking pictures with the pastor. it was a luncheon to welcome him back. and after the gunman started shooting, he was reloading his gun, and that was an opportunity for the pastor to strike him with a chair and everybody else tackled him. in all, six people were shot. one man was killed. 52-year-old physician john chiang. dr. chang is a hero in this incident. dr. cheng charged the suspect,
In May 1865, the Rev. Seth Clark, the chaplain with the 10th Ohio Cavalry Volunteers, told the congregation of what would become the St. Philips Moravian Church about the Emancipation
to get those to get state and local authorities to focus on sort of what we call situational awareness. do they know what s going on in their communities? do they have access to a synagogue or a church? do are they reaching out to them? and i think that s really important, as you as we just heard from the congregant, this was a synagogue that sort of took advantage of every opportunity to make it itself more safe and secure. fencing, video, training, active-shooter training. run, hide, fight. i mean, all of them, they understood what was going on, save and that saved their lives but their one vulnerability was the rabbi let a stranger in. that, in the end, is not something you can solve because that is intrinsic to this religion, to to to the jewish religion and to many other religions and i think that s the tension that you are feeling right now. not just the hate but also