5d ago

FBI and local law enforcement investigating attack at Boulder's Pearl Street Mall in Colorado, multiple injured

www.cbsnews.com

Attack in Boulder, Colorado, burns 12 people at march for Israeli hostages, officials say; suspect charged

Witnesses at the scene told CBS Colorado that the suspect attacked people with Molotov cocktails who were participating in a walk to remember the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza.

Run For Their Lives, which organized the walk, said, "This is not a protest; it is a peaceful walk to show solidarity with the hostages and their families, and a plea for their release." The group met at 1 p.m. at Pearl Street and 8th Street to walk the length of the Pearl Street Mall and back with a stop at the courthouse for a video.

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5d ago

Suspect arrested for setting people on fire at pro-Israel event in Boulder, Colorado

www.cbsnews.com /colorado/news/colorado-police-responding-to-boulder-pearl-street-mall-attack-multiple-injured/

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Can we like, agree that throwing Mollies at non-combatants is shit?
- What if the "non-combatants" rally and raise funds for one of the two combatants?
  
  No.
- Actually it's only Bad to use high explosive bombs on civilians, incendiaries are actually fine.
..were participating in a walk to remember the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza.
Just forgetting about the Palestinian hostages held by Israel?
I have conflicting feelings. On one hand this was a horrific attack on a peaceful walk. On the otherhand they only care about Israeli hostages and that rubs me in all the wrong ways.
- They were and have been marching for peace… most people see the need for an end to hostilities, they are Jewish and they want the hostages returned, I don’t know their ideology but I assume they want the Palestinian hostages held by IDF and the Israeli government returned as well to their families…
  
  Their websites stated purpose "Global run/walk events calling for the immediate release of the hostages held by Hamas".
  The rest of website goes on in the same vein. All they want are Jewish Israeli hostages returned.
  And the group they were founded by, The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, has the same focus.
  At best these groups just don't care about Palestinians. At worst they are Zionists.
- Ah, so that's why the FBI is going in now, instead of literally any other time this has happened in the past 8-10 years (at least)
  
  Probably because someone firebombed a pedestrian mall. That's the kind of thing that they tend to investigate.
- I don't have conflicted feelings. I'm sure the people engaged in this protest would be more than happy to strip me, my family, and my friends of my rights and finish the destruction of the US.
  The right has lost my sympathy.
- This group doesn't see Palestinian lives as worth as much as Israeli ones, clearly.
  I'm sorry but 21 hostages don't hold a candle to over 50k dead, including women and children and 1.8 million classified as "extremely critical" levels of hunger. There's a famine in Gaza right now, they've been scorch earth bombed to hell resulting in widespread homelessness. Israel just gunned down and murdered 30 innocent people today and injured hundreds more who were there for food from an aid truck simply for crossing a line slightly before 6 AM.
  Fuck out of here. Sudan and Haiti are not part of this conversation for a reason and it's because Haiti is in the Caribbean for fucks sake so that's a stretch to "you don't care about hostages". It's a genocide orchestrated by the Israeli government. The hostages are a flimsy excuse at best.
  
  This is my core issue with a lot of people who label themselves as “pro-Palestine.” Equivalent levels of mass civilian suffering have been happening all over the Muslim world for decades - Yemen, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan - yet hardly anyone seems to pay much attention when it’s Muslims killing other Muslims. But the moment it’s Jews involved, it becomes headline news and sparks protests in the streets. And in this particular case, the protesting had already started while Israelis were still being killed in Israel and the IDF hadn't even stepped into Gaza.
  
  Yeah because everyone knows that Israel has been oppressing Haiti and Sudan for 80 years... So fucking disingenuous.
  
  No. You’re talking out of your ass
"... all I saw was someone on fire," said Victor.
I wish hell existed for people who would do something so horrific.
This, of course is abhorrent but with how Israel is behaving, I think that Jewish people will have to be more and more careful in the future.
Of course it isn't their fault, but as the Israel government is working hard to make Jews the most hated ethnographic group in the world, people will be needing to be careful showing who they are. It's sad, really
- We are so primed for a replay of ww2, it is scary. Well, nobody’s fault but Israel’s.
Those marching as “bring them home” actually meant “bomb their home”.

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