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October 24, 2019

Jewish Leaders Arrested For Protesting Trump One Year After Mass Shooting at Pittsburgh Synagogue
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Ahead of Trump's arrival in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, police arrested 14
people as they held a sit-in protest blocking a bridge near the Shale
Insight Conference. The protest was led by Jewish leaders who marched
behind a banner reading "Our solidarity will defeat White Nationalism."
It came almost exactly one year after a gunman armed with an AR-15
assault rifle opened fire inside the Tree of Life Synagogue in
Pittsburgh, killing 11 worshipers. Just ahead of the shooting, the
gunman posted a racist screed echoing President Trump's language about
an "invasion" of immigrants. This is Dove Kent of the group Jewish
Action, who led Wednesday's protest.

Dove Kent "We know that the violence from the state that is separating
immigrant families is connected to the vigilante violence that is
killing Jews in synagogues, black people in churches, and Muslim people
on the streets. We know as a Jewish community that our safety is
dependent on the safety of all people. And that is why we are here, as
Jews, in Pittsburgh one year after the most anti-Semitic shooting that
has ever happened in this country, to say that our safety matters."



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