The news comes after a suspect in custody one month ago was released after a few days without charges and without explanation. Police say it doesn't appear to be a hate crime.

A person of interest in the slaying of Detroit synagogue leader Samantha Woll is in custody, police said Sunday.

The person was not publicly identified, and police declined to explain why the person was a focus. They also declined to say whether the person of interest was the same person whom they initially arrested but then released in the slaying.

“In an effort to ensure the integrity of this ongoing investigation, no further details will be released at this time,” Detroit police said in a statement late Sunday.

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It happened just two weeks after Hamas militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7, sparking a war. In the wake of the fighting, antisemitic and anti-Arab attacks in the U.S. have been on the rise, and leaders in Jewish and Arab American communities have condemned domestic violence and hateful speech.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    10 months ago

    You put a lot of faith in the investigative capabilities of US police…

    I wouldn’t be surprised if they got the blood trails direction backwards, and even if not, I don’t know why you think domestic abuse only occurs inside a house and never in a backyard.

    There’s absolutely zero releases evidence that points to a hate crime. Just like there’s zero evidence she was really a John Wick style assassin.

    So why should people act like either is what happened?

    As soon as she died people started screaming hate crime despite literally no indication that’s what this was.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      52·
      10 months ago

      So why should people act like either is what happened?

      That is specifically what I was saying.

      Edit: And it’s not that I trust the police’s investigative powers, it’s that I trust it over an armchair detective who got the most basic detail wrong.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        The police aren’t saying it wasn’t a cartel hit orchestrated by Santa Claus either…

        Like, you get the point right?

        Cops (even if we could trust what they say) don’t hold a press conference and start listing all the things they don’t think caused every murder.

        So the cops not saying it wasn’t a hate crime doesn’t mean anything at all.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          32·
          10 months ago

          It means that we don’t know whether or not it was a hate crime so you shouldn’t assume it wasn’t a hate crime. Which was my point.

          • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            Yeah, but there was months when everyone was claiming it was a hate crime with no evidence…

            So it seems disingenuous to make this argument when someone points out there isn’t a single reason to think this is a hate crime.

            The person you replied to didn’t even outright say it wasn’t a hate crime like your acting…

            Did you just read it wrong because it’s early?

            If not I really don’t see a point in continuing this exchange.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              21·
              10 months ago

              The killing happened a month and a half ago, so no there were not ‘months’ where everyone was claiming that. Much like the original person’s incorrect claim that she was inside her house when it happened.

              And, yet again, I am saying, and I don’t know why this is not clear to you, that there’s no reason to assume it is a hate crime and there is no reason to assume it is not a hate crime.

              Also, I read nothing wrong. OP said “If it was an attack on Jews in general, why didn’t they target an area with multiple victims?” which clearly implies that it was not a hate crime.

    • athos77@kbin.social
      3·
      10 months ago

      I mention it because every time this came up, people were eating it was antisemitic, even after the cops said it wasn’t.