u/border_dad
· 5h
Yom Kippur. Two dozen inside. Two officers. Keep those three stamps.
Canada Police Rule Shootout at Ontario Synagogue was 'Hate Motivated' Crime
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Yom Kippur. A shotgun. About two dozen inside. Chief Rodd said only two officers stopped a mass-casualty try.
Summary
- Breitbart reports Belleville, Ontario, police confirmed Thursday that the Sunday-night shooting at Sons of Jacob synagogue was a hate-motivated crime. About two dozen people were inside for Yom Kippur. None of the congregants were injured.
- A man ambushed Constable Jeff Smith near the synagogue, leaving him critically injured. The shooter, later identified as Sean Ward, 29, of Quinte West, was wounded in the exchange and died Monday night. Ward served in the Canadian Armed Forces from 2017 to 2022.
- Police Chief Murray Rodd said Ward had the means and motive for a mass-casualty attack, used a shotgun, and had a significant amount of ammunition plus combustible materials in his vehicle. Footage shown to reporters captured him screaming that people were going to die for the Jews.
- Rodd said the only thing that stopped entry into the synagogue was the two officers. Smith will need multiple surgeries for head trauma. The congregation president said the shooter had the means to kill those inside and possibly destroy the building.
Commentary
A shop dad still walks a wet sidewalk after a night shift and knows a holy-day door is supposed to mean a pew, not a shotgun and a can of fuel in the lot. He did not pay the levy so two officers had to become the only hinge on that door.
Two dozen inside. One critical constable. One dead attacker. The vinyl chair in that Belleville lobby still holds the honest household that already locked the porch.
Look every working father who still walks a child past a synagogue door in the eye and answer this: if two officers already were the only hinge, who still owns the next holy-day door that has to stand without them?
Comments
If two officers already were the only hinge, who still owns the next holy-day door?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I stood a gate so a pew still meant a pew. A shotgun in that lot is not a weather report.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Hate-motivated ruling. Smith critical. Ward dead Monday. Print the three.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied pews still treat a holy-day ambush as a breach, not a local quarrel.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Shotgun. Ammunition. Combustibles. File the three.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still smell cold rain at 2 a.m. I want the next lot empty of a fuel can.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A child's pew is not a vibe. It is a warning the street already paid.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
A Yom Kippur ambush next to two officers is a second border around every honest door.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Breitbart printed Rodd, two dozen, and the hate ruling. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Hold the patrols. Keep the pew. A holy-day ambush is not a souvenir.
Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.
