Rioters ostensibly participating in Black Lives Matter protests against the killing last week of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis tore through a heavily Jewish neighborhood of Los Angeles Saturday night, ransacking stores and vandalizing a synagogue.

“Fuck Israel” and “Free Palestine” were among the messages scrawled on the outside of Congregation Beth Israel on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles.

The riots in the area also disrupted synagogues that were attempting to reopen legally for the first time since the start of the coronavirus outbreak. Saturday marked both the Jewish Sabbath and the holiday of Shavuot.

The Forward reported:

Rabbi Moshe Pinto was on his way to the Baba Sale shul on Fairfax Avenue Saturday afternoon with several of his students for mincha services. Shavuot, the Jewish holiday which began May 28, marked the first time Baba Sale had hosted prayer services since the statewide shelter-in-place order was instituted in March.

But Rabbi Pinto was unable to see as far as the building, let alone make it to the door, as the group was blocked by a mass of civilians and police that were fighting for control of the street. Fairfax Avenue, which also abuts the Grove shopping mall, appeared to be the epicenter of looting activity.

Some of the civilians, he said, hurled epithets at the group, and one person threw a stick at one of his students.

“It was like looking at antisemitism, but in a time of rage,” Pinto said.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/31/rioters-loot-jewish-stores-vandalize-synagogue-in-l-a-free-palestine-f-israel/

TEMPLE TERRACE, Fla. - A deadly officer-involved shooting is under investigation in Temple Terrace.

Two Temple Terrace Police officers were involved in the confrontation outside City Hall Friday and are now under investigation.

One of the officers was the target of a knife-wielding woman, while the other came to his aid. The confrontation was caught on surveillance video.

In the video, the officer can be seen approaching the woman, who was seated on a bench. She then draws the large knife and lunges at the officer, swinging the knife at him as he backs away.

The confrontation then moves out of view of the camera. That's when the officer shot the woman, later identified as 22-year-old Heba Momtaz Al-Azhari.

Al-Azhari later died at the hospital.

"It's a very traumatic thing for an officer to pull his weapon and much less take a life," said Temple Terrace Police Chief Kenneth Albano while speaking about the incident.

Albano said the officer repeatedly told Al-Azhari to drop the knife. He yelled the commands so loudly that Albano said he could hear them from his third-floor office.

Spectrum Bay News 9 has confirmed that Al-Azhari is the sister of a man accused of terrorism.

A family spokesperson told Spectrum Bay News 9 she was upset over her brother's arrest earlier this week. The spokesperson said his name is Muhammed Momtaz Al-Azhari.

Twenty-three-year-old Muhammed Momtaz Al-Azhari is accused of trying to buy guns illegally and planning an attack somewhere in Tampa.

His criminal history includes terrorism charges in Saudi Arabia.

https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2020/05/29/woman-killed-in-officer-involved-shooting-was-sister-of-terror-suspect

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