Jewish nurse who treated Pittsburgh synagogue killer: "LOVE. That's why I did it."

[kpete]

“Love. That’s why I did it.”

The Jewish nurse who treated the alleged Pittsburgh synagogue killer broke his silence in a Facebook post, tonight. Ari Mahler says the suspected mass shooter thanked him for the care, and likely had no idea Mahler was Jewish.

“I could care less what Robert Bowers thinks, but you, the person reading this, love is the only message I wish to instill in you."

Link to tweet

[ginnyinWI]

1. It's about who we are. n/t

[Roy Rolling]

10. It's a calling to heal

It's in your core, it can't be turned off. It's why paramedics run toward accident victims even when off work. It's why off-duty cops run into danger to protect others. It's why preachers and teachers must share with others their knowledge, sometimes at great personal cost.

Like "the Jewish Nurse" as he calls himself, it's more than a paycheck. It's who they are.

[malaise]

2. If the nurse was malaise

There would have been a 12th funeral - just saying.

[dlk]

3. Ari Demonstrated the Highest Expression of Humanity

He didn't permit a twisted being with a diseased mind define him or his actions. No greater expression of love and humanity exists and we can all take a lesson from Ari's courage and integrity.

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. Wow

[malaise]

8. Wow is right

That's why I'm not a nurse

[Pacifist Patriot]

12. Same here

Well, that and I am not that fond of blood and pus.

[malaise]

15. Ditto

I was going to be a vet until a family friend killed one of my pups when her car hit him.
That was that.

[Ohiogal]

6. This brings to my mind

the flap over "religious liberty" a while ago where the RW Extremists said you are fully within your rights if you are a Christian doctor or nurse to refuse to treat a gay person.

What a difference between the right and the left. Hate vs. love.

[MuseRider]

7. He did the job a nurse is supposed to do

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only for him it would have been harder except for the love. I understand him and would have done the same thing. If you turn it around you would hope the other side would do the same, if they were nurses and doctors I believe they would. This is why it is so hard for medical people to understand those who don't or say they would not or don't dispense a prescription etc. Apparently things have changed but not too much yet. When I was nursing it would have been just a given and nobody would have spoken much about it, we never even thought about what or who the person was, it was just a life that needed saving. We are not the people to decide who lives and dies, everyone has the right to expect the care to help them live.

Thank you Ari Mahler for showing everyone what happens when you become part of a caring system. You have my undying respect. Former ER and Critical Care nurse.

EDIT I used the wrong name

[mysteryowl]

9. I would call it dispassion.

[usaf-vet]

11. As a former military medic.. I totally understand.

Your desire to save a life. Ease the pain. And respect of a life. Comes before ideology and politics. As it should be.

Ari Mahler you did your job. Let the legal system do theirs.

[Stuart G]

13. The world is very strange....?? The doctor was Jewish too.. this is from the Tribune Review:

Even as Bowers was saying, “I want to kill all the Jews,” he was being treated by two Jews — a trauma nurse and an attending emergency room doctor. Hospital President Dr. Jeff Cohen, who also is Jewish, declined to identify them in an earlier interview with the Tribune-Review , but Mahler said he went public on Facebook to tell his own story.

Here is the link to the entire story:

https://triblive.com/local/allegheny/14248295-74/jewish-nurse-who-treated-synagogue-shooting-suspect-calls-on-love-in-the

[Basement Beat]

14. Good for him.

He did his job and upheld his duty...
but as a "minority" citizen of this country; it becomes a bit nauseating and frankly upsetting to constantly see cold-blooded terrorist murderers that happen to be white males always seemingly get treated with "kids gloves". The constant need to "look deeper" and find out what radicalizes them. The constant need to search into the depth of evil and recover that human side.

It must feel good to live in a country where no matter what atrocities you commit, you're going to have the benefit of the doubt and to simply be seen as... human.

I apologize for taking this sort of detour from the point of the post - and to take nothing away from the enormous amount of heart shown by Ari.