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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    Yes? They deserve to be held accountable but even in a fair legal system they would not face the death penalty while those actually directly participating in or ordering war crimes would.

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      The legal systems of both the US and Israel consider all government employees to be legitimate targets for summary execution, as they have demonstrated in Gaza.

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      Great. So how long do we wait for said fair legal system to do this? Do we wait until after every single Palestinian has been brutally murdered or is that too soon for you. I’d also be curious if you can clearly define where said legal system exists and how it will go about prosecuting people like this.

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      The brilliant legal systems of both countries involved here are currently trying to imprison everyone who doesn’t gleefully support the total annihilation of Palestine. This is the extremely predictable result of stomping out every single alternative way of opposing an ongoing genocide.

      And like what do you think the appropriate consequence for aiding a genocide should be? Simple murderers and their accomplices often get life, so how does the math work out when it’s a few hundred thousand and the total destruction of an entire nation?