(Jewish Group)American Jews on edge by warnings of potential neo-Nazi violence ahead of Inauguration

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American Jews on edge as authorities warn of potential neo-Nazi violence ahead of Inauguration Day

The alert, tweeted by a college student, was vague: A man in a MAGA hat near West Virginia University was apparently asking for the locations of local synagogues and mosques.

On Thursday, a day after the tweet made the rounds of campus social media accounts, police didn’t know much more. A spokesman for the city of Morgantown, where the university is located, confirmed on Thursday that law enforcement was investigating the matter, but had no idea who the man in question was or even definitive confirmation that the interaction took place.

As it turns out, the interaction did not take place as described. The man in question never mentioned a synagogue, according to the police chief of Granville, the nearby town where the incident took place. Responding to an inquiry from Thursday on Friday morning, the chief, Craig Corkrean, confirmed that someone wearing what appeared to be a Trump or MAGA hat asked someone for the location of the nearest mosque, and walked away.

Police are investigating the man’s identity “to cover all of our bases,” Corkrean said, but he stressed that asking for the location of a mosque isn’t a crime.

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