Jewish centers cope with bomb threats; graves vandalized Rabbi Joshua Bolton of the University of Pennsylvania's Hillel center surveys damaged headstones at Mount Carmel Cemetery on Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, in Philadelphia. More than 100 headstones have been vandalized at the Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia, damage discovered less than a week after similar vandalism in Missouri, authorities said. Feb. 27, 2017 http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ab60be7f7f9541d484ce3e3f38abe8a9/money-being-raised-restore-vandalized-jewish-cemetery
He yelled ‘Get out of my country,’ witnesses say, and then shot 2 men from India, killing one An undated photo of Adam Purinton, of Olathe, Kansas. February 24, 2017 Authorities in Kansas filed first-degree murder charges against a man accused of opening fire in a bar there, killing one Indian man, injuring two other people and causing fears about bigotry to reverberate across the globe. According to witness accounts, the gunman reportedly told two of the people who were shot — both Indian men who work for Garmin, the technology firm — to “get out of my country” before opening fire and had also used racial slurs during the Wednesday evening shooting. Multiple law enforcement agents launched an investigation into the deadly shooting inside Austin’s Bar and Grill in Olathe, a city about 20 miles southwest of Kansas City. Even as authorities said they had not yet identified a motive for the attack, relatives of the Indian men said they feared the shooting was connected to a climate of fear and xenophobia [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/24/i-appeal-to-all-the-parents-in-india-not-to-send-their-children-to-the-united-states-distraught-father-says-after-shooting/ ] in America. The father of one of the people injured pointed to the election of President Trump, who has routinely described a threat posed to Americans from people outside the country’s borders, and pleaded with parents in India “not to send their children to the United States.” The White House responded by calling the link to Trump’s rhetoric absurd, according to Reuters. [...] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/24/get-out-of-my-country-kansan-reportedly-yelled-before-shooting-2-men-from-india-killing-one/ [with embedded videos, and comments]