Police say they’ve identified the person leaving anti-Semitic flyers around Washington, but will not pursue a criminal investigation.
Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Karimah Bilal tells The Washington Post that the flyers are protected by the First Amendment and their author “has not been deemed a threat at this time.”
A North Cleveland Park resident, Brad Neumann, found a double-sided flyer on his doorstep July 10. He reported the incident to D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), the Anti-Defamation League and Metropolitan police, the last of which labeled it bias-related. He said he felt particularly unsafe as he lives near Comet Ping Pong, the pizzeria targeted in a 2016 conspiracy-related shooting.
Bilal says the distributor of that flyer is believed to be behind those found in Georgetown a day before.
(AP)
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I wonder if Ms. Bilal would react the same way if similar things were said about members of her Muslim faith or about African Americans. Of course we know what the reaction would be. To hide behind freedom of speech is outrageous.
Takeaway message: Jewish lives don’t matter!
While the person who spread these is a disgusting piece of garbage, I am glad they are not being arrested. Freedom of speech specifically protects people who say unpopular things- even if those things are mean. If you make laws prosecuting someone for this, what is to stop people from arresting yidden in a few years saying that our disagreement with the toeva lifestyle is “hate speech”?