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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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[–] nun@lemm.ee -5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I mean he’s still a civilian and it it’s still murder but yeah hard to feel sad about it

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] nun@lemm.ee -3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] peppers_ghost@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

Do you struggle with understanding sarcasm through text?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 hours ago

"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."

[–] nun@lemm.ee -2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] nun@lemm.ee -4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] nun@lemm.ee -2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

This is not the legal definition of civilian.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] nun@lemm.ee 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

This is a dictionary definition. Non-combatant ISIS members are also civilians. Whether they deserve to die or not has no legal bearing. Im unsure why that is considered controversial.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Because this is a "rule" which is never applied to any signature to the Geneva Convention. It is solely brought up to virtue signal in favor of the empire.

These days Israel is publicly bombing Hamas government officials for the crime of being in their finance ministry and nobody bats an eye. They are bombing journalists inside of hospitals for doing journalism and it is a-ok.

This is what my username is a reference to.