FBI and local law enforcement investigating attack at Boulder's Pearl Street Mall in Colorado, multiple injured
FBI and local law enforcement investigating attack at Boulder's Pearl Street Mall in Colorado, multiple injured
A suspect is in custody after what authorities call a "targeted act of violence" at Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado. Witnesses said he threw Molotov cocktails at people supporting Israeli hostages.
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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..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.
Just forgetting about hostages held by the genocidal government of Sudan?
Just forgetting about hostages held by the gangs dominating Haiti?
Do you not grasp how ridiculous your argument is? Why does concern for Israeli hostages, whom you clearly never gave a damn about, detract from the plight of Palestinians?
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.
No. You’re talking out of your ass
You're an antisemite.
Yeah because everyone knows that Israel has been oppressing Haiti and Sudan for 80 years... So fucking disingenuous.
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…
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.
By your logic one could say at worst you are a Nazi…
There’s still no reason to throw a Molotov cocktail at these people.
Not everything is so black and white. You can want the hostages from IDF and Hamas returned and also want the genocide in Gaza to stop…
By your logic one could say at worst you are a Nazi…
And you are an actual dancing bear using Lemmy.
There’s still no reason to throw a Molotov cocktail at these people.
Hence why I said I had conflicted feelings.
Not everything is so black and white. You can want the hostages from IDF and Hamas returned and also want the genocide in Gaza to stop…
Pretty clear this organization and its founders dont care about Palestinian hostages. Go have a browse around the websites I linked. Or go find them yourself and look at them.
I stand by what I said: they either don't care or they are Zionists.
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.
What does "the right" have to do with this? Jews were protesting for the release of their fellows from captivity by Hamas.
Marching for 20 hostages to me implies they are completely okay with actions being taken against the Palestinian people. Why march for 20 when millions are facing starvation. Hell the total blockade means the hostages aren't likely getting much food either.
So either they don't care about the genocide or they value the lives of millions as lesser.
There was a time when I would have felt bad for these people, but I'm over it.
As to what the right has to do with this, they have been the most enthusiastic supporters of the genocide. So seems like a fair assumption to me.
So, if you dedicate time to literally anything but Gaza, it means that you don't care about Palestinians whatsoever? Is that right?
They're dedicating time to the other side of the conflict. This isn't a protest about some unrelated topic. This is directly related.
So maybe save the bad faith arguments? Or at least make one that's more convincing
CIVILIANS on the other side.
Bad faith is pretending to give a fuck about the death toll while dismissing any concern about innocent Jews being victimized.
It's civilians on both sides. Let's not ignore that.
If these were random people I'd feel bad, but they've made their stances clear. But continue with the anti-semetism claims. Favorite tactic of the far right these days.
I'm not. You're the one saying you can only care about civilians on one side.
Their stance is that they don't want Jews to be victimized for being Jews.
I remember the far right saying the exact same thing.
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.
The FBI are generally inept idiots, and that was before America went Fascist. Their presence isn't going to be a help, especially now. Read through history. They've screwed up so many investigations.