The shooting took place late Wednesday outside the Capital Jewish Museum, which was hosting an American Jewish Committee event at the time of the incident.

US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced the deaths in an X post, saying, “We are actively investigating and working to get more information to share.”

The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriquez of Chicago, Illinois, “chanted 'Free, free Palestine,’ while in custody,” she added.

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    He served in the IDF for three years before his current role. Now he worked diplomatically for the Apartheid to aid in ethnically cleansing all Palestinians.

    It is truly terrible that this person who dedicated his life to dispossessing and murdering Palestinians was killed.

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      Literally the opposite of what I said. How do you go from ‘hard to feel sad about it’ to ‘ it’s truly terrible’?

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        Well he was but a simple innocent civilian enthousiastically participating in the genocide of all Palestinians. Killing such an innocent person is inexcusable.

        • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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          “You don’t understand, the people working on the Death Star just had a job to do and to follow its orders. It’s not any one of their fault that it blew up planets. RIP the brave workers on the Death Star I and Death Star II.”

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            Good point, and a perfect centrist take (not that I’m accusing you of being centrist). They should have a centrist viewing and commentary of the whole star wars series. Like mystery science theatre 3000.

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            Was he a civilian who was murdered or was he an active participant in a brutal mass murder of Palestinian women children and men, covered by countries which are participants in the genocide?

            Anyways, the second amendment exists to combat tyranny.

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              Anyways, the second amendment exists to combat tyranny.

              Just want to step in here and say that no interpretation of the second would cover a civilian killing a foreign diplomat, no matter how tyrannical 😂

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                Being employed by an embassy doesn’t magically make you a diplomat my guy. Not saying that the 2nd would cover it in any case, but still.

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              He is by definition a civilian that was murdered. Legal definitions do not care about our political opinions. It appears to be very likely he was a civilian who deserved to be murdered but that does not change the definition

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                civilian /sĭ-vĭl′yən/

                noun

                A person who is not an active member of the military, the police, or a belligerent group in a conflict.

                A person who is not an employee of the government.

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                    International law is a myth that imperialsists use to murder indigenous resistance fighters, it’s not a real legal regime that actually applies universally.

                    There is no legal definition because there is no law, I think that’s pretty clear at this point.

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                    It is according to DuckDuckGo

                    But the definition changes based on who you ask. What is more relevant is whether they are part of a beligirent force akin to ISIS but worse.

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                Last I checked, the western world had made it very clear that international law does not consider killing civilians murder.

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                excellent point, killing innocent civilians is very wrong. As is starving them and abusing them for 80 years. All those things, just plain wrong, no matter the reasoning.

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        Sounds like you struggle to read.

        May I suggest your local library and some Goosebumps books to get you started? Work your way up from there.