More information on the DC murder
Horrifying details are coming out now, having been captured on video:
In summary, the video shows a slim build person, wearing a blue jacket with a hood, a large dark-colored backpack, blue pants, and light-colored shoes, consistent with the clothing worn by RODRIGUEZ, walking across F Street, Northwest, in the direction of the Museum, and where the decedents were standing, preparing to enter the crosswalk. Once RODRIGUEZ walked past the decedents and two witnesses, he turned to face their backs and brandished a firearm from the area of his waistband. RODRIGUEZ is captured on the video extending both his arms in the direction of the decedents and firing several times, as indicated by the muzzle flashes. Once the decedents fell to the ground, RODRIGUEZ is captured on the video advancing closer to the decedents, leaning over with them with his arm extended, and firing several more times. As Decedent-1 attempted to crawl away from RODRIGUEZ, he followed behind her and fired again. After a brief moment, RODRIGUEZ appeared to reload his firearm. At the same time, Decedent-1 sat up. Once he reloaded, RODRIGUEZ fired several times at Decedent-1. RODRIGUEZ is then captured jogging back in the direction of 3rd Street, NW, and southbound in the direction of where the entrance to the Museum is located.
A disgusting and repulsive crime. Too bad none of the witnesses were armed.
It also sounds as though – as with leftist hero Luigi Mangione – he initially shot his victims in the back.
I had wondered how Rodriguez was caught, and I had assumed it was outside the building. But that turns out to have been incorrect. Apparently he purposely entered the building after having thrown his gun away. The people there tried to help him, thinking he was someone who’d witnessed the shooting and was seeking shelter:
“The suspect came over to where I was and we offered him water and he reaches into his backpack and pulls out a kufiya and says, ‘I did it. I did this for Gaza,’ “ eyewitness Kalisher shared on Good Morning America.
Speaking with the BBC, Kalisher also explained that at first she heard gunshots outside the building and thought the man was seeking refuge from the violence outside.
“We thought he needed shelter so he comes in,” she shared.
Fellow eyewitness Yoni Kalin added, “People were calming him down, giving him water, little did we know that he was someone who executed people in cold blood. He was the shooter. Once the police originally showed up, he was like, ‘I did this. I’m unarmed,’ pulls out a red kufiya and was like, ‘I did this for Gaza. Free Palestine.’ “
A death and murder cult inspires murder.
Rodriguez supposedly left a manifesto, which can be found here and is apparently filled with the usual bogus “facts” promulgated by Hamas with the cooperation of much of the MSM.
In my earlier post today on the murders, I speculated about the news that Yaron Lischinsky, one of the two victims, was an evangelical Christian. Because of his name, it seemed to me he may have been born a Jew and embraced what is known as Messianic Judaism. That turns out to be the case:
Lischinsky, born in Germany to a Jewish father and Christian mother, moved to Israel at 16 and found a spiritual home in Melech Ha’Mlachim — “King of Kings” in English — a Messianic congregation near Jerusalem’s bustling Mahane Yehuda market. There, he translated sermons for English-speaking visitors and regularly stayed after services to talk about his future with Boskey, who led the youth group. …
Messianic Judaism is a religious movement made up of people who identify ethnically and culturally as Jewish and believe that Jesus — whom they call Yeshua — is the promised Messiah.
Most adherents consider themselves Jewish, a position rejected by the mainstream Jewish community but embraced by congregations like Melech Ha’Mlachim. Unlike Jews for Jesus — an evangelical missionary organization — most Messianic congregations in Israel are locally run and culturally Jewish, with Torah readings, Hebrew prayer and Jewish holiday observance.
The murderer, of course, was not doing research on the religious beliefs of his victims. They were Jews and Israelis as far as he was concerned.
ADDENDUM:
I had also wondered why the murderer stopped at two victims. Apparently it was because his gun jammed or ran out of ammunition.
This ant-semitism and anti-Western Civ mindset is a form of mass delusion created by propaganda. Which is mostly created on social media.
This perp is obviously mentally disturbed. No mentally healthy person can execute innocent fellow human beings like that.
J.J.:
Not necessarily mentally ill. Could be a sociopath. Most likely, though, someone convinced that anyone who is Israeli or Jewish is the equivalent of an enemy combatant and cold-booded child killer.
@J. J.:No mentally healthy person can execute innocent fellow human beings like that.
Evil is not a medical condition.
I’m not sure a Jew can do anything, religious conversion or otherwise, that would get an antisemite to stop regarding him as a Jew. Jews don’t necessarily follow the Jewish religion in any case.
At what point will we say, “Enough!” to the corporate media’s blatant egging on of murderous moslems and their sympathizers? Every time they mindlessly repeat the propaganda from hamas and other islamic polluted “news” streams it winds the spring of violence tighter until… This particular killer of innocents MUST be charged and convicted of premeditated murder and every other federal capital crime and eventually, based on the clear evidence of his cold-blooded assassination of his victims, executed. It is only a shame that his media accessories can not suffer the same fate.
Not just the Corrupt Media.
Many of the morally corrupt, fellow-traveling politicians are guilty, as well, including some horrendous characters in Israel.
Most recently, the purported leaders of the UK, Canada and France, with Spain and quite a few others right up there, along with most of DPOTUS (which is why Fetterman has been such a thorn in his party’s side).
All of them—no matter what they think they’re doing—are, together with Hamas, helping to globalize the effort to destroy the Jewish state.
Interesting times?
Critically decisive times…
Well, the early church had a lot of “Messianic Jews” in it. Including the Apostles. It did not take too long for the ” Gentiles” to outnumber the Jewish members.
What I find strange is that an atheist Jew is apparently considered more ” Jewish ” than a Messianic Jew in some circles.
Both ethnic Jews.
One believes Abraham, Moses, King David etc. were real people and the other often thinks they were myths.
But in some circles , the non believer – in anything – is considered more Jewish than the Jew who believes those people existed and that Jesus is and will be the Messiah.
@Jon baker:But in some circles , the non believer – in anything – is considered more Jewish than the Jew who believes those people existed and that Jesus is and will be the Messiah.
I think it’s specifically Jesus of Nazareth as Messiah that is the deal-breaker. Plenty of Jews have hailed someone as the Messiah over the centuries. Some Jews in Chabad believe in a Messiah who died in 1994 and I never heard they were kicked out of Judaism.
I’m sorry I wasn’t there, there and capable of dealing with this thing!
But in some circles , the non believer – in anything – is considered more Jewish than the Jew who believes those people existed and that Jesus is and will be the Messiah.
I don’t think that’s correct. To traditional Jews, you are Jewish if your mother was Jewish (or had a valid and sincere conversion to Judaism), regardless of your beliefs. Your behavior may be more or less in conformance with Jewish practice, but that doesn’t make you more or less Jewish. Lischinsky was not Jewish because his mother wasn’t Jewish, not because he was a Messianic Christian.
And to NIketas’s comment @9:55, you can’t be “kicked out of Judaism.” You can be regarded as wayward or a heretic (as those Chabadniks who think Rabbi Schneerson is/was the Messiah are regarded by most Jews), but you are still Jewish. There is a concept of excommunication, but that’s ostracism from the community, not expulsion from being Jewish.
“Too bad none of the witnesses were armed.”
This.