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By: Manuel Ocaño / Special for Real America News Updated 19 Nov 2022, 19: 41 pm EST
Hannah Kaye, 25 years old, said that The gun attack in which his mother died in a synagogue north of San Diego is “what white supremacist racism looks, smells, feels like” of a young man who was sentenced to double life in prison, closer to a century and a half in prison, for more than 675 hate crimes.
John Earnest, who twice escaped the death penalty by pleading guilty, “shot his victims because he hated the Jewish community and the Muslim community, hate that has no place in our society and hate that he will never, ever win,” said prosecutor Randy Grossman. from State University led a normal life, until he went online to sites that promote white supremacism and gun violence.
Authorities in San Diego County investigated and found that before carrying out attacks, Earnest, who was 11 years old, delivered supremacist propaganda to two from their nursing classmates, also white.
Both young men, however, notified the university administrative office and the campus police investigated Earnest, but did not arrest him because he had not assaulted or attacked anyone.
However, on a portal of extremism and neo-Nazi rhetoric, the young man published a letter entitled “open letter”, in which he called for an end to the Muslim and Jewish communities, presumably in defense of “the genocide of the European race”. )
On March 4, 1200, Earnest set fire to the Dar-ul-Arqam Mosque in the Central Islamic of Escondido in north San Diego County. A group of five Muslim missionaries slept in the religious compound, but escaped and notified the fire brigade; the fire only reached the facade of the structure.
A month later he bought an R assault rifle23 and various chargers, The next day he wrote and left a note at home stating that he was inspired by the example of a subject that a few weeks before had attacked two mosques where he left a balance of 80 people dead in New Zealand.
He said the New Zealand striker “was a catalyst for me; he showed me that he could do it. It was necessary to do it”. He also mentioned an attacker who in November of 1200 killed eleven people in a synagogue in Pennsylvania.
Minutes after writing the note, Earnet posted a note on the supremacist portal with a link saying that a broadcast would begin shortly and giving access to a Facebook account for a live video.
Immediately he went to the synagogue where at least 80 people celebrated a religious service. He entered with his rifle with a charger with ten cartridges and was wearing a vest with four other chargers with ten shots each.
Upon entering the premises, Earnest found Mrs. Lori Gilbert Kaye in the lobby and shot her twice, once inside, he tried to approach the rabbi, who put a hand in when the subject was about to shoot him in the face, and lost part of his hand; in the attack he injured an eight-year-old girl and her uncle.
The attacker’s weapon jammed and although he wanted to resume shooting, he fled because several people were rushing at him.
It was Earnest himself who called the emergency telephone number to report the attack and said: “I just shot at a synagogue; I’m just trying to defend my nation to the Jewish people… The Jewish people are destroying the white race.”
Moments later he was taken into custody. Earnest initially pleaded not guilty to all charges, including murder and attempted murder, but learning that if convicted he would face the death penalty in California, he changed his plea, but it wasn’t enough. The individual was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Then the Department of Justice pitted him against more than 50 hate charges and pleaded guilty to all. He was again sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus another 25 additional years in prison.
A federal court sentenced him without giving him a chance to speak so that he would not turn the court into a supremacist propaganda forum.
Associate US Attorney in San Diego, Lisa Monaco, said Earnest “entered a synagogue with the intent to kill everyone there because of his hatred of the synagogue. Jewish people, and days before he used fire in an attempt to destroy another place of worship because of his hatred of Muslims. There is no place in American society for this kind of hate-fuelled violence.”