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Authored by John R. Lott Jr. via RealClearInvestigations (emphasis ours),
In response to sharp increases in violent crime, President Biden stressed again last week that his administration is focused on “stemming the flow of firearms used to commit violent crimes.” But critics warn that this “guns first” approach ignores a basic fact—about 92% of violent crimes in America do not involve firearms.

Although firearms were used in about 74% of homicides in 2019, they comprise less than 9% of violent crimes in America.

The vast majority of violent offenses—including robberies, rapes and other sex crimes—almost always involve other weapons or no weapons at all.

Consider Chicago, which has become a national symbol of violent crime. While shootings have increased by about 11% this year, the number of murders has decreased slightly in 2021—to 382 as of July 11 compared to 387 for the same time period last year. The dramatic increase Chicago is experiencing is in sex crimes—a 23% rise (1,068 as of July 11 compared with 868 during the same period in 2020).

In New York City, murders through the same period have dropped by 36.4% compared to last year. But robberies are up by 18%, rapes by 9%, and other sex crimes by 35%—all of which do not usually involve guns, sex crimes rarely so. This year murders make up 0.3% of felonies.

Even if gun crime were to rise dramatically, experts point out that it would still be a small fraction of overall violent crime.

The National Crime Victimization Survey, in the latest year available (2019), shows that there were 5,440,680 rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults and 16,425 murders. Firearms were used in 440,830 incidents for rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults (Table 25) and 10,258 murders. Adding those numbers up, 8.27% of violent crime incidents involved firearms. The percentage has stayed virtually the same for decades. For example, in 2000, it was 8.5%. In 2010, it was 9% (Table 4). Nor do most gun crimes end in murder: just 2% do.

The gulf between Democrats and Republicans on this is large. While Democrats are continuing to push for restrictions on police authority, Republican states are responding by giving police more power to do their job.

Nevertheless, Biden and other Democrats argue that lax gun control, which allows gun trafficking, is responsible for the increase in violent crime. The Biden administration’s focus on gun crimes is seen in the titles the White House put on Biden’s talks in April, June and last week: “Remarks by President Biden on Gun Violence Prevention,” “Remarks by President Biden and Attorney General Garland on Gun Crime Prevention Strategy,” and “Remarks by President Biden Discussing His Administration’s Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Gun Crimes.”

In three speeches on crime, Biden mentioned “gun” or “firearm” 148 times. The term “weapon,” sometimes in connection with “assault weapon,” is used another 21 times. By contrast, when not directly discussing guns, he mentioned the words “crime,” “violence,” or “violent” about half as often—89 times.

Unmentioned by the president as factors in the violent crime increase were last year’s widespread unrest over the George Floyd murder and the dislocations of the pandemic, including mass layoffs, youths kept out of schools and, notably, the early release of many convicts from infection-prone prisons. Against this backdrop, some scholars question the president’s focus on gun laws.

“What change in gun control laws in 2020 could possibly explain the increase in violent crime over the last year?” asked Carl Moody, an economist who specializes in studying crime at the College of William & Mary, in an interview with RealClearInvestigations. “Why did violent crime increase now, rather than two or three or four years ago?” he asked rhetorically.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Republicans, such as former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, point more generally to law enforcement. They argue that in many urban areas, more than half of prison inmates have been released on account of the pandemic and the releases are continuing. Bail reforms allow those accused of crime to remain on the streets. In some places, police have been ordered to stand down and their budgets cut. Prosecutors in many major urban areas have refused to prosecute violent criminals.

The Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union that represents rank-and-file officers, released a statement late last year criticizing Los Angeles County’s then newly elected District Attorney George Gascón’s pledge (since fulfilled) to reduce criminal sentences and eliminate cash bail for misdemeanors. “As homicides, shooting victims and shots fired into occupied homes soar in Los Angeles,” the union wrote, “it’s disturbing that Gascón’s first act in office is to explore every avenue possible to release from jail those responsible for this bloodshed.”

Gascón’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

In contrast with Republicans, Biden mentioned policing just four times in his three addresses. He did so once in connection with “red flag” gun laws, and three times boasted that the American Rescue Plan passed earlier this year by Congress provided funds to hire “more police officers, more nurses, more counselors, more social workers.” However, the bill did not require that local governments spend any of the $350 billion they received on law enforcement.

Moody told RealClearInvestigations that the president’s emphasis on violent crime is “understandable if only because of how heavily concentrated murders are in the country.” Over 50% of the murders take place in just 2% of the counties (60 of the 3,140 counties, the 60 making up 27.5% of the population), and even within those counties most murders occur within 10-block areas. These are overwhelmingly gang-related murders. They are surely important, but don’t touch the lives of most Americans. Fifty-four percent of counties have no murders and another 15% have one.

This article was written by John R. Lott Jr for RealClearInvestigations.
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The Pentagon building has gone into lockdown, over reports of several people shot and injured, including a police officer, at its transit center. The Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA) has asked the public to avoid the area.

In a tweet on Tuesday morning, the PFPA said that the Pentagon building, the headquarters of the United States Department of

Defense, was in a state of lockdown due to “an incident” at the facility’s metro station, without providing further details.

Unconfirmed local reports said several people, including a police officer, have been injured after gunshots were fired. Footage shared on social media appeared to show CPR being administered to at least two people.




The Pentagon is on lockdown after multiple gunshots were fired near a platform by the facility’s Metro station.

A Pentagon announcement said the facility was on lockdown due to “police activity.” Members of the public are asked to avoid the area.

Chopper4 footage shows many emergency vehicles on the scene. No information was immediately released on whether anyone was wounded.

Metro trains are temporarily bypassing the Pentagon station, officials said.
An Associated Press reporter near the building heard multiple gunshots.
 
The Deep State's MSN keeps the ghost of the El Paso shooting alive.



According to media, at 3:44 pm local time, police received reports of "several loud bangs" coming from the Näsby area in the northern part of Kristianstad.

Several people have been injured after a suspected shooting in Sweden's Kristianstad.

Spokesman of the local police, Richard Lundqvist, said that at least two people are suspected of having received gunshot wounds.
According to Scania Regional Council, the injured include a man in his 20s, a man in his 30s and a woman in her 60s who are being treated for serious injuries.

A large police operation is underway. Ambulances have also arrived at the scene of the suspected shooting.

"The injured were found in various places. We do not know much about the circumstances yet," Lundqvist said, as quoted by Aftonbladet.

The spokesperson added that the victims were found both indoors and outdoors, and it is still unclear where the shooting took place.


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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS August 6, 2021 at 23:15 JST
A man with a knife stabbed at least 10 passengers on a commuter train in Tokyo on Friday and was arrested by police after fleeing, fire department officials and news reports said.

NHK public television said two passengers were seriously injured. It said the suspect left his knife behind as he fled and was later arrested in Tokyo. The Japanese capital is currently hosting the Olympics, which end Sunday.

The Tokyo Fire Department said nine of the 10 passengers were taken to nearby hospitals, while the tenth was able to walk away. All of the injured were conscious, fire department officials said.

NHK showed a number of police cars and people in uniform on the street where it said the suspect was arrested.

The stabbing occurred near Seijogakuen station, according to railway operator Odakyu Electric Railway Co. The train line is mostly above ground but runs underground in the area of the attack.

Police refused to comment and no other details were immediately available.
 
Devon and Cornwall Police said three females, two males and the suspect had died in the Keyham area of the city on Thursday evening.
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One of the dead was a child under 10, according to an MP, but the shooting is not terror-related, police confirmed.

The death toll means it is the worst mass shooting in the UK for more than a decade.

Emergency services were called to Biddick Drive shortly after 18:00 BST on Thursday.

People were told to stay inside and follow police advice as the emergency response developed.

Eyewitness Sharron, who lives nearby and did not want to give her full name, said what happened was "horrendous and so sad".

"Firstly, there was shouting, followed by gunshots - three possibly four to begin with," she said.

"This was when the shooter kicked in the door of a house and randomly started shooting. He ran from the house shooting as he ran and proceeded to shoot at a few people in the linear park up from the drive."

She said the "shooter proceeded along Royal Navy Avenue still shooting".

Another witness, Robert Pinkerton, said he "walked around the corner" and "bumped into a bloke with a shotgun". He said the man was dressed all in black.

 
Two of them have died, Alexander Gusev said
MOSCOW, August 15. /TASS/. The number of people injured in the explosion in a bus in Voronezh increased to 24 people, Voronezh Region Governor Alexander Gusev announced on his Telegram channel on Saturday.

"Unfortunately, the number of injured in the explosion in the bus is growing. Now there are 26 people, two of them have died," he wrote.
Earlier, 22 injured were reported.


An explosion occurred on a passenger bus in the city of Voronezh in European Russia on Thursday evening. Investigators are looking at various possible causes for the incident. A criminal case has been opened. According to the local authorities, the bus used diesel fuel and had no gas equipment.

13 Aug, 2021 20:46
The UK’s police watchdog has opened an investigation into the police force that returned a gun and a permit to the shooter who went on to kill five people and himself in Plymouth, southwest England.

Jake Davison, 22, gunned down five people in the port city of Plymouth on Thursday. He killed two men, two women – including his mother – and a toddler, before turning his weapon on himself.

Attention has now turned to Davison’s troubled history, as well as his firearms ownership. He allegedly posted on ‘incel’ forums online, describing his struggles with the opposite sex, and had his shotgun and permit taken off him last December following an allegation of assault. However, Devon and Cornwall Police reinstated his licence and returned his weapon last month after Davison completed an anger management course.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) announced on Friday that it will investigate the circumstances surrounding the police force’s reinstatement of Davison’s licence.

“We will examine what police actions were taken and when, the rationale behind police decision-making, and whether relevant law, policy and procedures were followed concerning Mr Davison’s possession of a shotgun,” read a statement from IOPC regional director David Ford.

“The investigation will also consider whether the force had any information concerning Mr Davison’s mental health and if so, if this information was appropriately considered.”

Davison’s rampage was the worst mass shooting to hit the UK since 2010, when taxi driver Derrick Bird shot and killed 12 people in Cumbria.

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Rodney Scott has retired as US Border Patrol chief, but not before reportedly warning his agents that unprecedented numbers of suspected terrorists are crossing into the country, creating a “national security crisis.”

With record numbers of illegal aliens crossing the southwestern US border since President Joe Biden took office in January, public attention has been focused on an immigration crisis, Scott told Border Patrol members in a video message obtained by the Washington Examiner. But the bigger issue is the flow of so-called TSDBs, the term used for suspected terrorists in the FBI’s terrorist screening database, he said.

“I firmly believe that it is a national security crisis,” the newspaper quoted Scott as saying in the video. “Immigration is just a subcomponent of it, and right now, it’s just a cover for massive amounts of smuggling going across the southwest border – to include TSDBs at a level we have never seen before. That is a real threat.”

At least four suspects who were on the FBI’s terrorism watchlist were apprehended by Border Patrol agents as they tried to cross into the US over the past year. A Border Patrol press release about the arrests was removed from the agency’s website hours after being posted, and other such incidents haven’t received public attention.

Scott, who had been with the Border Patrol for nearly 30 years and took the helm as chief in February 2020, was forced out of his job after Biden took office. He urged agents to keep trying to prevent terrorists and criminals from entering the US.

“Your peers or you are taking criminals, pedophiles, rapists, murderers, and like I said before, even TSDB alerts, off the streets and keeping them safe from America,” Scott said. “Even if we processed several thousand migrants that day and even if thousands of them were allowed into the US, you still took those threats off the street, and I think that's worth it. So please don’t ever undersell how important your mission is.”

READ MORE: Biden administration has dumped 40,000 Covid-positive migrants into US cities, former border chief tells newspaper

The Biden administration has been forced to take 40% of agents from the field to help process, care for and transport the flood of illegal migrants coming into US border facilities, reducing manpower to intercept potential terrorists. Nearly 213,000 illegal aliens were encountered by Border Patrol agents at the US-Mexico border in July, marking the second straight month of setting a new 20-year high.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas last week reportedly told Border Patrol agents in Texas that “unsustainable” numbers of migrants are flooding into the US. “We can’t continue like this,” Mayorkas said, according to leaked audio obtained by Fox News. “Our people in the field can’t continue, and our system isn’t built for it.” He took a different tone with reporters the same day, saying, “We have seen the surges in migration before. We’ve seen them in the past, and migration surges are not new.”

Former president Donald Trump earlier this year accused Biden of creating a “humanitarian and national security disaster” at the border with his “reckless” policies. Scott told Border Patrol agents to remind themselves that they’re not “immigration police.”

“Our job is to know what and who comes into our country and then to filter it out based on the rules applied by Congress and by law,”
he said. “That’s critically important, and when you put it in the context of immigration only, I think you miss the bigger fight.”

 
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Barcelona's emergency devices were deployed this afternoon in the city center after an explosion in Las Ramblas. Specifically, near the Petit Palace Hotel, located near the famous Boqueria market.

The events took place around 12:30 in the afternoon. Almost an hour later, Mossos d'Esquadra has ruled out that the events were related to a new terrorist action in the city, as had been feared at first.

And it is that the accumulation of circumstances that have led to the intervention of the emergency bodies takes place on the eve of the double attack in the Catalan capital.

The initial investigations have pointed to a "fortuitous deflagration" that has coincided with an accident in one of the hotel rooms.

Passersby have heard the explosion that has set off the alarms, which originated in the Ciutat Vella festival and the use of "pyrotechnics" in the Plaza del Pi, and they have seen a tourist leaving the hotel with a bloody injury. His injuries were caused by the breakage of the shower screen in his room, they explain from the Catalan security force. Message of tranquility from Mossos.

However, until the facts have been clarified, the security protocols for events in this profile have prevailed.

The Tedax have traveled to the hotel to look for explosives in the establishment, the area has been cordoned off "for prevention" and TMB has diverted the circulation of two bus lines (V13 and 59) that circulate regularly on Las Ramblas

The message that has been transferred from the security body has been that of "calm" and, little by little, activity in the area has recovered.

Displaced media and diversions Five fire brigade vehicles, four from the Mossos, three from the emergency medical service (SEM) and seven from the Barcelona Urban Guard have traveled between Las Ramblas and Carrer de la Boqueria
 
Bomb threat by "lone wolf"...


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What we know about Floyd Ray Roseberry, the Washington DC bomb threat suspect​

Floyd Ray Roseberry is a 49-year-old man from Cleveland County, North Carolina. Police said he threatened to have explosives outside the Library of Congress.

Author: Nate Morabito (WCNC), Hank Lee
Published: 2:15 PM EDT August 19, 2021
Updated: 7:56 AM EDT August 20, 2021
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WASHINGTON — Authorities in Washington, D.C. have identified the man claiming to have an explosive outside the Library of Congress as Floyd Ray Roseberry.
Roseberry, 49, is from Grover, North Carolina, which is located in Cleveland County about 40 miles west of Charlotte. U.S. Capitol police said Roseberry was inside a pickup truck parked outside the Library of Congress claiming to have explosives with a detonator in his hand. Roseberry surrendered to police shortly after 2 p.m. and he was taken into custody without further incident. Multiple charges are pending against Roseberry.

RELATED: Cleveland County man arrested for making Capitol bomb threat
Roseberry posted multiple videos to a now-removed Facebook page Thursday, demanding to speak with President Joe Biden. Officials have not determined Roseberry's motive at this time but did say his mother recently passed away.
During a lengthy Facebook live video, Roseberry said, "the revolution is on" and that he'd "die for this land." His wife told NBC News he was leaving for a fishing trip Wednesday night and said he'd been upset by the 2020 presidential election results.
WCNC Charlotte confirmed that Roseberry is a registered Republican voter since 2016.
In his videos, Roseberry said he was “picked by the American [expletive] people to come up here and take a stand.” Much of his ranting was directed specifically at Biden and suggested he believed in the baseless election fraud conspiracy theories pushed by former President Donald Trump and other prominent Republicans that Biden was not legally elected.
“I just got chose for the job. Unlike you,” Roseberry said. “This ain’t about politics. I don’t care if Donald Trump ever becomes president again. I think y’all Democrats need to step down. Y'all need to understand people don’t want you there.”
Roseberry vented a litany of complaints, ranging from the quality of modern coinage – at one point saying “Your pennies are rotting, Joe!” – to the American treatment of Afghans during the ongoing troop withdrawal. He also repeatedly called on Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats to step down.
“You step down out of office, I’ll step down out of this truck,” Roseberry said. “You go home. I’ll go to federal prison.”

PHOTOS: NC man claims to have an explosive in DC (See link for photos.)​


The truck Roseberry drove from North Carolina was filled with bags and tubs of loose change apparently designed to turn the vehicle into a huge IED. Roseberry was vague about the nature of the supposed explosive device. At one point he claimed he had a “toolbox full of ammonium nitrate.” At another, he said police should ask their experts “what a 7-pound beg of gunpowder would do with 2.5-lbs. of Tannerite.”

“Biden, there’s a change shortage for a reason. I’ve got it all. I got loads of it,” Roseberry said. “And it don’t take but a half a roll of nickel to equal a .50-caliber bullet. And I’m telling you, they come in, they start shooting this window out… this bomb’s going off.”
Investigators later searched the vehicle. While the U.S. Capitol Police said they found no bomb, they did say they found bomb-making materials.
Charges against Roseberry were still pending.
Investigators said Roseberry's criminal history was "nothing that serious." In the late 1980s, Roseberry was charged with larceny over $200 and driving without a license. He was given probation for those offenses. Cleveland County court records indicate he was convicted of resisting a public officer in 1993 as well.
U.S. Capitol Police said Roseberry's mother recently passed away. Members of Roseberry's family told police he was dealing with "other issues."
Roseberry’s mother died of cancer, he said, and his wife had been denied insurance coverage for treatment of an unspecified cancer on her face. He claimed he had recently been denied coverage as well for shots “just so I can walk.”

“I went to the doctor yesterday to get some of those cell therapy shots they’ve been bragging about giving to athletes all these years. The doctor says, ‘No shots today. Insurance don’t cover it anymore,’” Roseberry said. “My wife goes to the doctor. She’s got cancer. And they told her it wouldn’t cover it anymore because it’s cosmetic. It’s on her face. Where’s your insurance at Biden? Obama? You keep on letting all these illegal Mexicans in here, all these illegal immigrants in here from Afghanistan… we’re going to have free health care for us. You’re [expletive] giving it to them. The South’s fed up!”
Roseberry’s home state of North Carolina is one of a dozen states with Republican-controlled legislatures that have not yet adopted expanded Medicaid eligibility granted by the Obama-Biden administration’s signature healthcare legislation, the Affordable Care Act. In states that have adopted expansion, the law allows households to qualify for Medicaid coverage if their income is below 133% of the federal poverty level – roughly $35,000 a year for a family of four. Roseberry is a registered Republican who voted most recently in the November general election, according to a public records search.

Those same records showed no significant property assets in Roseberry’s name – but a history of financial troubles. Court records show he filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy in 1998, which establishes a payment plan for unpaid debts, and then Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2000. Chapter 7 bankruptcy allows a trustee to sell off whatever assets are available to pay off creditors. His most recent employment was listed as an assistant supervisor at a women’s apparel manufacturer.
The FBI and the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office were seen Thursday at Roseberry's most recently known address.

Former FBI agent and federal prosecutor M. Quentin Williams said there is usually some sort of signaling leading up to these kinds of acts.
"There are usually signs. The question is are we paying attention to the signs?" Williams said. "We must pay attention to these signs, because they're giving us indications that they're considering doing something."
RELATED: 'It's often lone wolves' | Former Assistant FBI Director explains the role of social threats on national security
 
3 Sep, 2021 05:34 / Updated 1 minute ago
A stabbing attack in an Auckland supermarket in which multiple people were injured was an act of terrorism, New Zealand’s prime minister says. The suspect was shot dead by police.

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“This afternoon, at approximately 2:40pm, a violent extremist undertook a terrorist attack on innocent New Zealanders in the New Lynn Countdown [supermarket] in Auckland,” Ardern said at a press conference.

The suspect was a known threat to authorities and under constant monitoring, she added.

Ardern said the terrorist was a Sri Lankan national who arrived in the country in 2011 and became a person of national security interest from 2016. She described the attacker as an ISIS-inspired “lone wolf.”

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has described a stabbing attack at an Auckland supermarket as a “terrorist attack by a violent extremist”.
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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has condemned an attack at a West Auckland supermarket this afternoon, describing it as a “terrorist attack by a violent extremist” who was known to authorities.
Police confirmed this afternoon that they had shot and killed a man who stormed the New Lynn supermarket, armed with a knife, and injured at least six people, three of who are in a critical condition.

“He’s been known to us since 2016,” Ms Ardern told reporters after a briefing. There are court suppression orders in place affecting her ability to provide some information about the attacker.

“What happened today was despicable. It was hateful, it was wrong. It was carried out by an individual, not a faith, not a culture, not an ethnicity but an individual person who is gripped by ideology that is not supported here by anyone in the community.”

Ms Ardern said she was “so sorry” the attack had happened.

The Prime Minister said that the 32-year-old offender - known as “S” for legal reasons - had been on the police’s radar for several years and was Isis-inspired.

He was considered a threat to public safety after twice buying large hunting knives and possessing Islamic State videos, the NZ Herald reports, and had only recently been released from prison and was under constant surveillance from police and national security agencies.

Police were following the man after he left home and walked into the New Lynn Countdown this afternoon - before he took a knife from a shelf, and carried out the attack.

“The terrorist is a Sri Lankan national who arrived in 2011,” Ms Ardern said.

Police Commissioner Andrew Coster said he was “closely watched by surveillance teams and a strategic tactical team” as he travelled from his home in Glen Eden to Countdown in New Lynn this afternoon.

“The reality is when you are surveilling someone on a 24 hour basis it is not possible to be immediately next to them,” Mr Coster said.

In a video posted to social media, shoppers at Countdown can be heard warning each other about “someone with a knife” inside the store, shortly before a series of gunshots rang out.

Three of those critically injured, the NZ Herald reports, have been taken to Auckland City Hospital, along with another in a serious condition. One person in a moderate condition is at Waitakere Hospital and another is at Middlemore Hospital.

At least one person suffered a stab wound, according to the Herald, while Newstalk ZB reports two people have been shot.

One witness, a man named Tim, told Reuters he saw an elderly man lying on the ground with a stab wound to his abdomen, and a middle-aged woman who had been stabbed in the shoulder.

Another witness, Brittany Denyer, said she was about to enter the shopping centre when police officers ran up to her and told her to “hurry up and evacuate immediately”.

“People were panicking, and it was a gridlock trying to get out of New Lynn. Police and ambulances [were] everywhere,” she said.

“I was told by another police officer while I was waiting to be diverted that someone had been stabbed.”

A pharmacy worker at Lynn Mall told RNZ they had been barricaded inside the Unichem Pharmacy, along with about 20 people who had rushed inside.

General Manager Kiri Hannifin told the Herald that the store would be closed until further notice, saying they are “devastated by what’s taken place in our Lynnmall store today”.

“Once again, our hearts are heavy knowing what our team and customers have witnessed and been through. Our thoughts are with those who were injured and their families, and we will be supporting all of our Lynnmall team,” Ms Hannifin said in a statement.

“Over the last few weeks especially, Kiwis have shown our team such gratitude and kindness and we are particularly devastated that something like this has happened again in one of our stores. It’s difficult to comprehend and the events of today leave our whole team in deep shock.”
 


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Dozens of police officers have reportedly been deployed on the streets surrounding a synagogue in the western-German city of Hagen, amid warnings of a “threat” to the building. The alert comes on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur.

“We currently have indications of a possible dangerous situation in connection with a Jewish facility in Hagen,” the North Rhine-Westphalia state police department in the neighboring city of Dortmund stated on Wednesday evening. “Police protective measures have been adapted accordingly,” the statement continued, adding: “We are in close contact with the Jewish community.”

A police spokesperson told Reuters shortly afterwards that officers were responding to an unspecified “threat” to the building.

The nature of the threat remains unclear, but photographs taken by the Westfalenpost, a local newspaper, show heavily armed officers patrolling nearby streets, which have been closed to traffic.

While initial reports suggested “hundreds” of cops were taking part in the operation, the actual number of officers involved was lost in translation, as “Hundertschaft” is used by the local media to describe police units of various size.

In a follow-up thread, the North Rhine-Westphalia police said that they were unable to tell when traffic restrictions in Hagen will be lifted.

The situation unfolded as the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur began at sundown. Yom Kippur is the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, and observant Jews mark the occasion by fasting, praying, and abstaining from work.
 
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