Posted on 05/10/2024 3:17:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A pair of men driving a spray-painted van trespassed onto one of Fresno’s Jewish temples and Catholic churches, papering their facilities with fliers, leading to their arrest.
Fresno police are investigating a possible hate crime at Temple Beth Israel, a Jewish temple in north Fresno, after vandals papered the religious facility with fliers.
Officers apprehended two men around 4:15 p.m. when they began to post fliers on the campus of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church nearly a mile south of the Jewish temple.
Driving the news: The suspects’ van, which was spray-painted to read “Repent or Perish” was seized at the church. The van had New York license plates.
It is uncertain whether any vandalism beyond the fliers occurred at Temple Beth Israel. Fresno police are examining all possible violations of the law and have not definitively classified the incident as a hate crime.
The fliers contained a letter targeting the religious institutions for “rejecting the word of God.” Not the first time: Last October, Temple Beth Israel was vandalized when one of its windows was shattered by a rock. This incident occurred shortly after Israel was attacked by Hamas, resulting in numerous casualties, including American citizens.
In 1930s Germany, didn’t the Gestapo investigate the same hate crimes against Jews? And did nothing.
“Possible.”
Like the joke about the naive basketball rookie who said “I think we need to score more. I’ve noticed lately most of the times that our team ends the game with more points scored that we won those games.”
‘Possible’ hate crimes ???
A few years ago a man in Chattanooga took a photo of himself pretending to shoot a hole in a koran...
The FBI turned up...
Was the driver Ray Epps?
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