(22 May 2025)
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Washington DC – 22 May 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Pam Bondi, US Attorney General:
"We have to keep everyone safe and that is the job right now of the Metropolitan Police, Mayor Bowser, Jeanine Pirro, we were all out here all night long. Everyone is working together as a team. FBI, ATF, our U.S. marshals are out here trying to protect everyone, but our Jewish community must feel safe. What we saw last night was disgusting. I saw a young man’s body being taken away, who was about to get engaged. He had an entire life in front of him, and that was taken away. The hate has got to stop and it has to stop now. And this person will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
++SEPARATED BY WHITE FLASH++
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Pam Bondi, US Attorney General:
"You all have to understand, I can’t talk about the facts. I can’t talk about anything else now. They are working tirelessly to make sure this investigation goes proper. It is, everyone is working together and that’s what’s going to happen now."
++SEPARATED BY WHITE FLASH++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Pam Bondi, US Attorney General:
"I spoke to Prime Minister Netanyahu last night. I was with Ambassador Leiter and Prime Minister Netanyahu called while I was with him. I spoke to him, and of course, he was, he was devastated. He was devastated. And it broke my heart to to talk to Bibi last night. He was devastated. And I assured him we were looking into this. Of course, all of our investigators were working together, and I also spoke to President Trump multiple times, who was just heartbroken and devastated by this. And, you know, his first directive to us was Make America safe again. And that’s what we are going to do. There is no place for this hate in our country."
++ENDS ON A SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
US Attorney General Pam Bondi says "our Jewish community must feel safe’ following Israeli embassy staffers were killed.
What we saw last night was disgusting. I saw a young man’s body being taken away. Who was about to get engaged," said Bondi Thursday morning near the scene of the shootings.
"He had an entire life in front of him, and that was taken away. The hate has got to stop and it has to stop now. And this person will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.""
This comes after two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were fatally shot while leaving an event at a Jewish museum, and the suspect yelled, “Free, free Palestine” after he was arrested. That’s according to Washington police and federal authorities.
The attack occurred Wednesday evening.
The man and woman killed were a young couple on the verge of becoming engaged.
The violence was seen by officials in Israel and the U.S. as the latest in a growing wave of antisemitism as Israel ramps up its offensive in the Gaza Strip, and as food security experts have warned that Gaza risks falling into famine unless Israel’s blockade ends. The suspect has been identified as Elias Rodriguez, a 31-year-old from Chicago.
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