Jewish institutions have been the target of intermittent bomb threats since last November. On Friday, police arrested Juan Thompson, 31 for several of them. Thompson allegedly targeted at least eight Jewish Community Centers, the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) New York office, the Jewish History Museum and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Over 90 more Jewish organizations have received threats, but law enforcement is not attributing those to Thompson. 

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Almost a month after Dylann Roof murdered nine parishioners at Charleston’s Mother Emmanuel AME church, a convoy of pickup trucks drove by a young African American child’s birthday party hurling racial epithets and pointing firearms. On February 27, 2017, several among the group of “flaggers” were sentenced to lengthy prison terms for aggravated assault, making terroristic threats and violating a state gang act. 

Rapides Parrish District Attorney Phillip Terrell — the man whose office invited anti-Muslim extremist John Guandolo to train law enforcement in Alexandria next week — once ran a law firm with a well-known Louisiana Klansman Greg Aymond.