Posted on 11/26/2018 8:32:18 PM PST by TigerClaws
Original title: Man Faces Hate Crime Charge After Yelling Out Slurs, Trying to Hit Congregants With Car Outside Hancock Park Synagogue: LAPD
A man is facing a hate crime charge after allegedly yelling out anti-Semitic slurs and trying to hit Jewish congregants with his vehicle outside a Hancock Park synagogue over the weekend, Los Angeles Police Department officials announced Monday. Mohamed Mohamed Abdi is seen in a booking photo released Nov. 26, 2018, by Los Angeles police.
Mohamed Mohamed Abdi is seen in a booking photo released Nov. 26, 2018, by Los Angeles police.
The incident occurred about 9 p.m. Nov. 23 after an event at Congregation Bais Yehuda, 360 N. La Brea Ave.
Two men, 37 and 57, were walking toward Oakwood Avenue when the saw a man in a vehicle yell out expletives "referencing their Jewish heritage," LAPD Deputy Chief Horace Frank said Monday. The men saw the driver, identified as Mohamed Mohamed Abdi, run a red light, make a U-Turn and accelerate toward them. The men hid behind a traffic light pole and an electric box to avoid getting hit, Frank said.
Abdi allegedly tried to hit the men again before attempting to drive away, but he crashed into another vehicle in the area. No one was injured during the incident, police said.
At some point, the men alerted authorities, who responded to the scene and arrested Abdi. Police found a knife in Abdi's vehicle, Chief Michel Moore said.
Abdi, 32, was booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and faces a special enhancement of a hate crime, officials said.
Abdi is a U.S. citizen from Somalia, but had only been in the Los Angeles area for only a few days, Moore said. He lived in the Seattle area for several years, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Frank told the newspaper that Abdi renter a car and drove south last week, but his reasons for doing so were unclear. Frank noted that the nature of the attack echoes recent terror incidents using rented vehicles, which was "very concerning." Congregation Bais Yehuda is shown in a Street View image from Google Maps.
Congregation Bais Yehuda is shown in a Street View image from Google Maps.
The chief added that while there is no evidence that Abdi was working on a larger attack, the LAPD and FBI are looking into his background, recent travel and social media history.
"Hate in America is on the rise," Moore said. "That has to change." He said that part of that change includes making sure that victims of hate crimes speak up and report any hate speech or actions.
Last year, there were 223 reported hate crimes in the city of Los Angeles, compared to 231 reported so far this year, Frank said.
Young Israel of Hancock Park's security coordinator, Matthew Kest, told the Times that someone shouted, “The Jews won’t be around for long,” at a congregant who was biking to the synagogue earlier this month.
On Nov. 7, LAPD arrested a man accused of accosting at least three Orthodox Jewish women and pulling off their wigs in Valley Glen.
The recent rash of local anti-Semitic incidents follow a mass shooting that left 11 dead inside a Pittsburgh synagogue in late October.
"This type of hate and violence will not stand," L.A. City Councilman Paul Koretz said about the Nov. 23 incident that occurred in his district. "My colleagues and I will do everything in our power to make sure that our communities are protected and secure. We will continue to fight anti-Semitism and bigotry, and we will continue to shine light on the darkness of hate." Related stories
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The Left will tally this as a Right Wing Hate Crime.
And people like Farrakhan still have Twitter accounts, but Laura Loomer and others are banned.
https://twitter.com/LouisFarrakhan
https://twitter.com/search?q=laura%20loomer&src=typd
Turd world cultural enrichment.
Guess his nickname is “M2”...
Evidently, He’s twice the mohamed the original one was...
Last time I visited a synagogue in LA (the "Library Minyan") it was surrounded by a high fence with with security guards at the entrance. (This was several years ago.) It very much reminded me of the way things are in Europe.
ML/NJ
You are correct. The left’s label makers are haywire and the public just swallows it down like Stormy Daniels.
I got off an elevator in McLean Va in a parking garage and there were two ME men talking very loudly about Allah, which is rare. We were walking to our car and I noticed two very nervous Jewish people (a man and his son) loading things into a car. Apparently I interrupted their harassment of the Jews.
I don’t know where the Library Minyan is, but in the most Jewish areas of LA, it hasn’t gotten that bad yet. We have a lot of obviously kosher businesses here as well as storefront little shuls, Hebrew lettering, even though not far away will be a Lebanese deli or something with Arabic writing on their signs.
I actually missed most of a wedding in Geneva Switzerland when we couldn’t find the synagogue because it was so well hidden. And our synagogue had an address there but it had a giant steel door/gate. It isn’t that bad here yet.
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