Headstones damaged at Philadelphia Jewish cemetery https://t.co/1ATqWl8hsG
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 26, 2017
Dozens of headstones at a Jewish cemetery in the Wissinoming section of Philadelphia have been broken and overturned.
The Philadelphia police say this was an act of vandalism at the Mt. Carmel Cemetery on the corner of Frankford and Cheltenham avenues.
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The damage is widespread all across the cemetery with dozens, perhaps hundreds, of headstones affected.
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The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia tells Action News they will be opening a mailbox at jewishphilly.org later Sunday to begin raising money to help speed up the repairs of the cemetery.
This isn’t the only activity so far today. There’s also this:
Vandals target Orchard Park cars, bridges with Nazi and racist graffiti in Buffalo. Evil and hatred must be stopped. Now.
— Emmanuel Nahshon (@EmmanuelNahshon) February 26, 2017
And in an update on the shooting in Olathe, KS we have the following two interesting pieces of information:
Sean Spicer’s official statement:
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Friday that it was “absurd” to suggest any connection between President Donald Trump’s rhetoric and a triple shooting in Kansas that some witnesses described as racially motivated.
“Any loss of life is tragic but I’m not going to get into that kind of — to suggest that there’s any correlation I think is a bit absurd, so I’m not going to get any further than that,” Spicer told reporters during a press gaggle recorded by the Washington Post.
Juxtaposed below with the President’s remarks during the campaign about how words and ideas matter.
Trump: words are magical and their very utterance kills terrorists.
Spicer: Words are harmless, especially the racist and xenophobic ones. pic.twitter.com/veXUtVgfwo
— Daniel Denvir (@DanielDenvir) February 25, 2017
And preliminary evidence that words and ideas do indeed matter and seem to have for Adam Purinton the alleged shooter:
Madasani, also a Garmin engineer, told The New York Times on Friday that Purinton had been sitting near him and Kuchibhotla on the bar’s patio. Madasani said he asked them what type of visas they were on and whether they were in the U.S. illegally. Both were in the country legally.
Stay frosty!
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