{"id":11254,"date":"2025-08-27T20:41:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/?p=11254"},"modified":"2025-08-27T21:38:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:38:40","slug":"jcpa-statement-on-minneapolis-school-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/press-release\/jcpa-statement-on-minneapolis-school-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"JCPA Statement on Minneapolis School Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MailCompose\">JCPA CEO Amy Spitalnick released the following statement:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We are horrified and devastated by\u00a0yet another school shooting in which two children \u2013 8 and 10 years old \u2013 were murdered and 17 other people injured while praying during mass. This doesn\u2019t need to keep happening. Our children, and all of us, deserve to live free from gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>Our hearts are with the Minneapolis and Catholic communities and all impacted.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that the shooter\u2019s social media accounts and gun had extensive hateful messages, including antisemitic scrawlings.<\/p>\n<p>This is horrifying, but it shouldn\u2019t be surprising. Over the past decade, we\u2019ve seen a cycle of extremist attacks in which each inspires the next \u2014 with many involving the very same hate, conspiracy theories, and tactics reflected here. This serves as a painful reminder that the targeting of any community makes\u00a0all\u00a0of us less safe, whether Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Black, immigrant, or any other community.<\/p>\n<p>Our government isn\u2019t powerless to stop these acts of hate and violence. Yet this administration continues to decimate key anti-extremism and hate crime prevention programs, while Washington fails to move forward sensible gun reforms, all while our communities pay the price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JCPA CEO Amy Spitalnick released the following statement: We are horrified and devastated by\u00a0yet another school shooting in which two children \u2013 8 and 10 years old \u2013 were murdered and 17 other people injured while praying during mass. This doesn\u2019t need to keep happening. Our children, and all of us, deserve to live free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>JCPA Statement on Minneapolis School Shooting - Jewish Council for Public Affairs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/press-release\/jcpa-statement-on-minneapolis-school-shooting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"JCPA Statement on Minneapolis School Shooting - Jewish Council for Public Affairs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"JCPA CEO Amy Spitalnick released the following statement: We are horrified and devastated by\u00a0yet another school shooting in which two children \u2013 8 and 10 years old \u2013 were murdered and 17 other people injured while praying during mass. 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