Six Face Hate Crime Charges for 2024 Attack of Jewish U. Pittsburgh Student
“This Department of Justice will always protect the First Amendment right to worship freely and without fear for Jewish Americans and all Americans of faith.”
It’s surprising that these people are just being charged now, considering this attack happened about two years ago, but better late than never.
According to reports, the student was attacked for merely wearing a Star of David. It’s another horrific example of the antisemitism that has become so widespread and normalized in recent years.
CBS News reports:
6 indicted on hate crime charges for attack on Jewish student in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood
Six people were indicted on hate crime charges after an antisemitic attack on a Jewish University of Pittsburgh student in 2024, federal prosecutors announced on Monday.
The seven-count indictment names Muhammed Koc, Omar Alshmari, Abraham Choudhry, Emirhan Arslan, Ali Alkhaleel and Adeel Piracha as defendants. A federal grand jury charged them with violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, obstructing justice and conspiring to obstruct justice, U.S. Attorney Troy Rivetti said.
According to the indictment, at 2 a.m. on Sept. 27, 2024, the group, excluding Piracha, made “virulent antisemitic statements” to a passerby in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood after they saw his Star of David pendant. Authorities said Koc and Alshmari attacked the victim, causing a split lip and headaches.
Prosecutors said Piracha and the other defendants talked about the attack on social media messaging and group texts, with Alshmari and Koc identifying themselves as two of the people described in a crime alert posted by the University of Pittsburgh Police Department.
The group is also accused of agreeing to lie about their story, giving fake and misleading testimony to the grand jury. The attorney’s office said several defendants lied about whether they had hit the victim, whether it was related to the victim’s Jewish identity and whether they had coordinated their stories before testifying.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Pennsylvania, put out this press release:
Six Pittsburgh-Area Defendants Charged with Hate Crime and Obstruction of Justice for Late-Night Antisemitic Attack on Jewish Male
A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh has charged six residents of the greater Pittsburgh area with violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, obstructing justice, and conspiring to obstruct justice in relation to a September 2024 attack on a Jewish male in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today.
The seven-count Indictment named Muhammed Koc, 27, of Pittsburgh; Omar Alshmari, 28, of Monroeville; Abraham Choudhry, 22, of Monroeville; Emirhan Arslan, 24, of McKees Rocks; Ali Alkhaleel, 19, of Pittsburgh; and Adeel Piracha, 22, of Murrysville, as defendants.
“We will prosecute this alleged act of violent antisemitism to the fullest extent of the law,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “This Department of Justice will always protect the First Amendment right to worship freely and without fear for Jewish Americans and all Americans of faith.”
“As alleged in the Indictment, this incident began with two defendants physically attacking an individual because of the victim’s Jewish identity,” said United States Attorney Rivetti. “Then, these defendants corruptly colluded with one another to provide false and misleading testimony before a federal grand jury tasked with investigating the assault. Obstruction is illegal and undermines the pursuit of justice; it will not be tolerated within our legal system, particularly when defendants testify falsely in an effort to protect individuals who commit hate crimes and acts of violence.”
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Wake me up when these perps are jailed.
“Six Pittsburgh-Area Defendants Charged with Hate Crime…”
Seriously, you cannot hate the press enough.
“Muhammed Koc, Omar Alshmari, Abraham Choudhry, Emirhan Arslan, Ali Alkhaleel and Adeel Piracha.”
I’m going to go out on a limb here to suggest that geographic proximity is not the reason these cretins got together.
Just remember that the cause of “islamophobia” is the behavior of it’s adherents.
Such despicable and wicked goose-stepping Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist thugs. Their wretched, evil, belligerent, supremacist and totalitarian ideology of hate wouldn’t even exist, but for Judaism’s theological foundation and legitimacy, which their founding warlord/terrorist brazenly ripped off, in immodestly anointing himself a “prophet,” in order to rationalize his predations and terrorism, by giving them allegedly Divine authorization.
Note that the DoJ, while under the wretched control of the Islamofascism/Muslim supremacism-whitewashing/enabling/protecting Biden-Harris Administration, did nothing about this attack.
#47’s and his Administration laudably restore credibility and moral probity, to the DoJ.
Well, I see the attack occurred after Biden-Harris. But, my point still stands — how many attacks on American Jews took place, post 10-7-2023, about which the Biden-Harris DoJ did nothing? Too many to count, because these Islamofascism/Muslim supremacism-steeped pukes were too worried about alleged/non-existent “Islamophobia.”
The attack occurred in ’24. Trump’s current term started January ’25.
While I believe these folks should face justice, there should be NO SUCH THING as “hate crimes.” They are a violation of the fundamentals of our justice system. They are fundamentally a violation of the First Amendment.
They are the only crimes that require an adjudication of motive, not just the presence of intent. They should all be abolished.
I agree. The notion of a hate crime is an abomination and a way to sidestop double jeopardy.
I agree.
But until Democrat Rules can be disposed of, they should be used as often as possible to prosecute Democrats.
The legal concept of hate crime remains an abomination. Just punish the underlying crime, if there is one.
if fjb or worse were running the doj
6 jews will face charges as muslims were upset by jews getting better grades in med school
Surprising?
Consider that the Biden DOJ would never consider charging anyone for such an offense. So, absolutely nothing was done on this during his administration.
Then, when Trump took office, virtually the entire DOJ consisted of radical libtards, with the Civil Rights division being the absolute worst of it.
It took awhile to get his nominees confirmed, and it takes much longer to get rid of the “career” prosecutors. By the time new people are in place, two years have gone by and its amazing someone was able to get to them to bring this case to their attention.
Harmeet Dhillon talks about the crying sessions that DOJ attorneys would hold. She also mentioned that the best way to get rid of them was to get them to quit – and she accomplished this by assigning them to cases like this one, which they would then absolutely refuse to prosecute.
Virtually impossible to fire them, but you can get them to quit by telling them to simply do their actual job.