PA - 11 killed, 6 injured in mass shooting at Pittsburgh Synagogue, 27 Oct 2018 *guilty, death sentence*

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HoneyWest said:
<modsnip>Bowers probably was watching Fox News. Lou Dobbs, in particular. Also Alex Jones. Bowers is a big fan of conspiracy theories and had been posting about the big scary "caravan" being funded by George Soros.

Why Did Synagogue Suspect Believe Migrant Caravan Is Jewish Conspiracy? Maybe He Watched Fox News.

"Beyond what he could have heard on Fox News, though, Bowers also seemed to be fond of a theory that has become viral on far-right websites and forums. That theory involves a photo that appears to show migrants getting onto a truck that has an apparent Star of David visible on the side. To the surprise of no one, Infowars’ Alex Jones also got in on the conspiracy theory, saying the caravan was an example of how Soros and others are trying to open up “large migration routes from the third-world into the first-world as part of a neo-colonialism system.”
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Bowers posted about the satanic Jews. I wonder where he got that? <modsnip>
 
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Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect faces new charges as funerals continue

"Today begins the process of seeking justice for the victims of these hateful acts," U.S. Attorney Scott Brady said in a statement, adding that his office "will spare no resource" in doing so.

The fresh charges account for surviving victims of the massacre, including police officers. Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty.

Bowers is accused of bursting into the synagogue and opening fire with a semi-automatic rifle and three pistols in the midst of Sabbath prayer services as he shouted "All Jews must die."

Eleven of the mostly elderly congregants were killed, and six people, including four police officers, were wounded before the suspect was shot by police and surrendered.

The attack, following a wave of politically motivated pipe bombs mailed to prominent Democrats, heightened national tensions days ahead of elections on Tuesday.
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The Pittsburgh massacre also fueled a debate over Trump's inflammatory political rhetoric and his self-identification as a "nationalist," which critics say has fomented a surge in right-wing extremism and may have even helped provoke Saturday's bloodshed.​
 
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'It's the Tone at the Top.' Major Jewish Donor Who Left GOP Discusses Synagogue Shooting

“I think it’s more than coincidence,” Wexner told TIME of the these three incidents occurring so close together. “I think that clearly it’s the tone at the top.”

What initially began to drive Wexner away from the Republican Party, he explained, was Trump’s comments equivocating blame on both white nationalists and counter-demonstrators after a Charlottesville rally turned deadly in the summer of 2017. Most recently, Wexner was incensed when Trump proclaimed himself a “nationalist” at a rally in Houston. Wexner categorized this type of “dog whistles” that have “liberated the darkest angels.”

“Its like Voldemort stimulates all the Death Eaters,” he said, referring to the villains in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. “They’re there. And then when somebody frees them up they start behaving. And I think that’s what we have.”​
 
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Pittsburgh buries three more synagogue shooting victims

Pittsburgh began holding three more funerals on Wednesday for Jewish victims of a shooting rampage at a synagogue that has become the focus of a fierce political debate about white nationalism and anti-Semitism.
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The synagogue attack has heightened a national debate over Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's rhetoric, which critics say has contributed to a surge in white-nationalist and neo-Nazi activity. His administration denies he has encouraged far-right extremism and is instead attempting to unify America.

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There’s a long road ahead in uncovering more evidence, prosecuting the shooter and finding justice, imo, especially as even more evidence becomes known.

The Pittsburgh synagogue shooter has been indicted on a total of 44 criminal counts — and prosecutors will seek the dealth penalty

A grand jury voted to indict Bowers on 44 counts, according to a filing in federal court in Pittsburgh. He had faced 29 counts.

The new charges included 11 counts of obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death, and various charges related to his use of a gun in anti-religious violence.​
 
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‘Lone wolves’ and the rhetoric that fuels them

Yet, as the research shows, no terrorist is an island, and the alleged Pittsburgh gunman is no exception. Mr. Bowers may have been a phantom in the physical world, but on the right-wing social platform Gab, he was enmeshed in a network of values and norms that have an insidious way of making the murder of elderly Jews look like justice.

“Nobody self-radicalizes,” says Mark Hamm, a professor of criminology at Indiana State University. “They do get radicalized. They go through a process of extremist development. But it is certainly by no means independently.”​
 
Pittsburgh shooting suspect Robert Bowers charged

The counts include 11 charges of obstruction of exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death, as well as 11 counts of using a firearm to commit murder. There are also two counts of obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs involving an attempt to kill and use of a dangerous weapon and resulting in bodily injury; 11 counts of use and discharge of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, eight counts of obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs involving an attempt to kill and use of a dangerous weapon, and resulting in bodily injury to a public safety officer; and one count of obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs involving use of a dangerous weapon and resulting in bodily injury to a public safety officer.​
 
Mail bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc planned 'terrorist attack' since July, prosecutors say

The man accused of mailing more than a dozen pipe bombs to prominent Democrats, other high-profile liberal figures and CNN had been plotting the "domestic terrorist attack" for months, prosecutors said.

The FBI searched electronic devices belonging to the suspect, 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc, and discovered files containing the addresses of his intended victims, as well as return labels that match those used on the padded mailing envelopes carrying the improvised explosive devices, according to a letter from prosecutors sent Tuesday to the judge presiding over Sayoc's case in Florida.

"The defendant conducted a domestic terrorist attack targeting at least 15 victims," Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, wrote in the letter to U.S. Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres of the Southern District of Florida. "Metadata from the electronic devices indicates that the defendant started planning the attack as early as July 2018."

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For those of us who feel heartbroken and helpless on how to express our outrage while showing support for our Jewish brothers and sisters, we can Stand in Solidarity with Pittsburgh by attending a Shabbat service this weekend. The Jewish Federations in cities across the country will be holding Solidary Shabbat. They welcome all, and it is a tangible positive action one can take to show we are one in community.
Stand in Solidarity with Pittsburgh | The Jewish Federations of North America
 
Synagogue shooting suspect's mom 'hurting for the Jewish community,' pastor says

The mother of Robert Bowers, the man charged in the Squirrel Hill synagogue massacre, felt stunned and stricken by grief when she learned her son was arrested in connection with the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history, her pastor said Wednesday.

“Barbara, she’s really saddened,” Pastor Mark Schollaert of First Baptist Church in Monongahela told the Tribune-Review from his home. He did not reveal her last name, though Trib news partner WPXI identified her as Barbara ****.​
 
MaryG12 said:
Bowers is ultimately accountable for the shooting of course, not anyone else - not you, not me, not anyone here at Websleuths, not anyone outside of WS, not the President, not the gun manufacturers, no one else.

There is something called individual action and personal accountability - Bowers made the choice to shoot this particular synagogue and the worshippers - a truly heinous crime.

But there is something even more dangerous at play here: collectivism. In simpler terms, the failure to recognize individualism, one's individual actions, - it seems like every single time a mass shooting takes place in America, it is always everyone else's fault except the shooter's. Of course, I disagree with that.

It is highly doubtful Bowers will receive the death penalty; at worst he will receive a slap on the wrist.

Unfortunately, slaps on the wrist have not deterred crimes like this, it simply exacerbates them.
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He might because in addition to killing 11 members of Jewish congregation, he also wounded two policemen. They never take attacking policemen lightly.
 
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