As our friends at Townhall reported, while the media was busy obsessing over a questionable “racist” joke at a Trump rally about Puerto Rico, they mostly ignored another story. To wit, a Mauritanian man in this country illegally reportedly shot a Jewish man in Chicago who was on his way to synagogue.
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Worse, the man then started yelling “Allahu akbar” and firing rounds at first responders.
Worse still, according to Fox News’ Bill Melugin, he had been captured in 2023 only to be released like so many others. Here’s how it went down:
Jewish community leaders in Chicago are calling for hate crime charges against a suspect accused of shooting a man who was walking to a synagogue before firing at police and emergency responders.
Police said Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22, of Chicago, approached a 39-year-old man who was wearing a kippah head covering and shot him in the shoulder Saturday morning in the West Rogers Park neighborhood, north of the city’s downtown area.
As officers and paramedics arrived at the scene, Abdallahi fired multiple shots toward them, striking only an ambulance, police said. Officers fired back and struck Abdallahi, then rendered aid; he was taken to a hospital, where he remained as of Monday. The victim’s injuries were non-life-threatening, and he has been discharged from a local hospital, police said.
NEW: Per four law enforcement sources to me & colleague @GriffJenkins, the suspect charged w/ shooting a Jewish man as he walked to a Chicago synagogue on Saturday is a Mauritanian illegal alien who was caught & released in Border Patrol’s San Diego, CA sector in March 2023.…
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) October 30, 2024
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Fox is told that sanctuary policies in Cook County, IL prohibit local authorities from cooperating with ICE on a detainer request on Abdallahi.
Here’s the gunman being carted off to the hospital:
Chicago — Footage has emerged of 22-year-old Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, the Muslim gunman accused of shooting a Jewish man and first responders while shouting, “Allahu akbar.” He was taken to hospital for injuries from being shot by police after he allegedly opened fire on them. pic.twitter.com/XyraCs8fV8
— Andy Ngo 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) October 28, 2024
This video meanwhile reportedly shows the police officers taking down the gunman (Warning: violent footage):
Home surveillance footage shows suspected Muslim gunman Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi being shot by first responders in a Jewish neighborhood in Chicago. https://t.co/yg66qqZFRc
— Andy Ngo 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) October 28, 2024
Here’s our brilliant press at work:
Just amazingly bad journalism.
No mention of the fact that the initial victim was a visibly Jewish man walking to Synagogue. No mention of the video of the suspect shouting “Allahu Akbar” as he was firing at emergency services. https://t.co/MuxsnVVsXA
— AG (@AGHamilton29) October 28, 2024
Although authorities are looking into filing hate crime charges, they have not done so yet, which has rightfully upset the Jewish community:
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Alderwoman Debra Silverstein, a member of the Chicago City Council who attends the same synagogue as the victim, said she would like to see hate crime charges filed, and the incident “has shaken my community to its core.”
“I am concerned by the lack of hate crime charges in this case,” Silverstein said at a news conference Monday. “While the motive is still under investigation, the community is rightfully troubled given the nature and timing of the attack.”
Rabbi Shlomo Soroka, director of government affairs for the Orthodox Jewish organization Agudath Israel of America, added: “We just experienced an act of violence that strikes at the heart of our communal family.”
If you express concern over random apparently antisemitic shootings in our major cities by illegal aliens, then according to Joe Biden you are “garbage.” For the media, meanwhile, this is just a blip on the radar, and they’re back to reporting on how the presidential election should be decided based on a bad joke.
