Police said a suspect was in custody after the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum

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.

  • cattywampas@lemm.eeEnglish
    1015·
    1 day ago

    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.

    • hiphopheaven@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      51·
      21 hours ago

      You just have to check Lischinsky tweets and retweet oposing a palestinian state because it would be a gift to Khamas

      • Optional@lemmy.world
        1110·
        1 day ago

        Ambassadors are appointed. If they were not in favor of the administration they would be recalled and replaced by ones that were.

        I suppose, but they weren’t ambassadors. So - that’s wrong.

        It is beyond the shadow of a doubt that these people were directly involved in advocating for greater crackdowns on pro-Palestine antigenocide protesting.

        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.

        These two people lived by the sword.

        Oh FFS.

      • cattywampas@lemm.eeEnglish
        128·
        1 day ago

        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.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
        613·
        1 day ago

        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.