Pittsburgh suspect indicted on 44 counts including religious hate crimes

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Source: The Guardian and agencies

Pittsburgh suspect indicted on 44 counts including religious hate crimes

• Robert Bowers to appear at second court hearing on Thursday
• Funerals held for three of the victims of synagogue attack

Guardian staff and agencies
Wed 31 Oct 2018 18.14 GMT

The suspect in a mass shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh that killed 11 worshippers has been charged on a total of 44 counts, up from 29 counts previously, according to a federal indictment filed on Wednesday.

The charges against Robert Bowers, the suspect in what is believed to be the deadliest attack on Jews in the United States in recent history, include religious hate crimes, firearms charges and causing injury to police officers.

Bowers is due to appear at a second hearing in federal court in Pittsburgh on Thursday.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/31/pittsburgh-funerals-shooting-victims-trump-protests

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. heart-rending

From the article:

With Tree of Life still cordoned off as a crime scene, more than 1,000 people poured into Rodef Shalom, one of the city’s oldest and largest synagogues, to mourn Cecil and David Rosenthal, ages 59 and 54.

The two intellectually disabled men were “beautiful souls” who had “not an ounce of hate in them – something we’re terribly missing today,” Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, a survivor of the massacre, said at their funeral.

[MagickMuffin]

2. Not caring about the "optics" is never a good idea

when the sole purpose is to kill people you don't like.

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3. Get thee to the greatest page

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