Texas Man Arrested After Synagogue Fire as Several Antisemitic Incidents Plague Austin

[dalton99a]

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-man-arrested-after-synagogue-fire-several-antisemitic-incidents-plague-austin-1648215

Texas Man Arrested After Synagogue Fire as Several Antisemitic Incidents Plague Austin
By Justin Klawans On 11/10/21 at 11:37 PM EST

A Texas man was arrested, accused of setting fire to an Austin synagogue on Halloween, arson investigators with the Austin Fire Department (AFD) said Wednesday.

Franklin Barrett Sechriest, 18, has been accused of arson for allegedly igniting the front sanctuary doors of Congregation Beth Israel, which led to a "small exterior fire" that, AFD said, escalated to sweep across the front entrance of the building.

The synagogue was reportedly empty at the time, which was about 9 p.m., and nobody was injured, according to AFD.

The department later tweeted a picture of the charred synagogue after the fire, which arson investigators stated caused approximately $25,000 in damage.

[Grins]

1. Pic: "Proud Hitler Youth", circa 2021

He’s 18.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. How nice of him to wait until it was empty.

[malaise]

3. Throw away the keys

Lock him up!

[bullwinkle428]

5. Rittenhouse's brother from another mother.

[Ritabert]

10. Just what I was thinking

[tenderfoot]

6. Did the NY Times write a glowing column about his ambitions to be a nurse?

It wouldn't surprise me.

[dalton99a]

8. +1. Before any rush to judgment, one must seek to fully understand and sympathize

why the Nazi tried to burn down a synagogue

[agingdem]

11. Jewish Chuck Todd

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could always play host to a member of the Aryan Nation...allow him to spew Nazi vomit with no pushback and sign off with "..good people on both sides"...

[MagickMuffin]

7. Glad they caught the little monster

I hope he never gets out of jail, ever or he'll be emboldened to do this again.

[luckone]

9. Heir Sechriest already looks like a Nazi poster boy

Wonder if he is from the same hate group there already identified or if they are inspiring others in Austin who then act alone ?
From OP link
Antisemitic graffiti was recently found scrawled on parking spots and a tool shed at Anderson High School. The school reportedly has a considerable population of Jewish students, and a local rabbi called it "the neighborhood school for those families who live in the facility of the Dell Jewish Community Campus."

Then, on the day preceding the arson, a banner was unfurled over a highway overpass by a member of the antisemitic hate group the Goyim Defense League, which the ADL describes as a "small network of virulently antisemitic provocateurs."

The banner reportedly read "Vax the Jews" and was displayed just blocks from a large Jewish community center. It was reported that the person holding the banner also gave a Nazi salute to passing motorists.

This was reportedly the second time that this banner had been seen in the Austin area, with the first incident taking place in late October.