Posted on 11/27/2018 12:32:04 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
Authorities are trying to determine the motivations and background of a 32-year-old Seattle man who allegedly tried to run down two men outside of a synagogue in Hancock Park last week in an attack that police have described as a hate crime.
Mohamed Mohamed Abdi was arrested outside of Congregation Bais Yehuda in the 300 block of La Brea Avenue Friday night and held on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after he yelled a number of anti-Semitic insults and barreled his car toward the two men around 9 p.m., Los Angeles Police Department Deputy Chief Horace Frank said.
Abdi was driving a rental car past the synagogue when he began yelling profanity at a group of worshipers near La Brea and Oakwood Avenues, Frank said.
Concerned by Abdi’s actions, two men walked away from the larger group but kept their eyes trained on Abdi, who then made a U-turn and ran a red light while accelerating toward them, Frank said. The two men managed to evade him, and Abdi crashed into a parked car a short time later.
“That monitoring, that vigilance, saved their lives,” LAPD Chief Michel Moore said at a news conference Monday.
No one was injured at the scene, and Abdi is being held in lieu of $55,000 at Men’s Central Jail downtown, police said. A knife was found in Abdi’s car, but Frank said police do not believe he owns any firearms.
Frank expects the LAPD will ask the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office to pursue assault charges against Abdi. The department is working in conjunction with the FBI’s Los Angeles field office to investigate Abdi, and federal prosecutors may consider possible hate crime or domestic terror charges against him.
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I’m completely stumped as well. Why would a guy named Mohammed want to harm worshipers exiting a synagogue? Probably just a very inexperienced driver, that’s all! /SARCASM
Background I want to see investigated and made known to the public:
1) When and How this individual came to the US?
2) Who paid for his trip?
3) Who paid for his living expenses since his arrival?
4) His whereabouts and travel since arrival?
5) His work history since arrival?
6) Public benefits received since his arrival?
7) Claimed purpose of his trip to LA?
8) Who paid for his travel to LA and his rental car?
9) How and when he was granted entry to the US, and how he became a citizen?
10) Who approved his citizenship application? Who did he use as sponsors?
11) His jihadi and militant activities that were ignored?
12) His radical associations since arrival?
13) His online, social media, and in-person jihadi contacts?
14) Who is his imam?
Etc.
All of those excellent questions will be studiously ignored.
It’s also very irritating the Somalis and other Muslim immigrants/invaders always seem to have the money to visit their homeland - are they getting their airfare from food stamp fraud and dealing drugs? Somehow I suspect I am financing that - just like taxpayers are supporting “refugee” agencies by the head count.
That is all true.
You do know that to ask those questions is racist, Islamophobic hate ?
Let me help the poor fella’s at the LAPD.
Motive: islam
Background: Somali muslim.
Any questions?
Yikes!
He is a FRicking Moslem!
Moslems hate Jews!
What the Hell else do you need to know?
1) Atomic physicist
2) Lutheran
3) Natural-born American citizen
4) Valedictorian of his private school
5) Trump supporter
6) Well-balanced, mellow personality
7) Part-time Talmudic scholar
8) Happily married
Fortunately I was identifying as Louis Farrakan when I posted.
Just because his name is Mo^2, and there was a Koran on his dashboard as he rammed Jews, is not enough reason to conclude he was biased. /S
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