Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis was a hate crime and act of terrorism, FBI says

The FBI was more emphatic on Friday that last weekend’s act of terrorism at a Colleyville synagogue was also a hate crime.

Officials revealed even more on Friday about what happened last Saturday at Colleyville's Congregation Beth Israel. They said no other people have been arrested locally, though they think they know everyone he’d been around. However, they still don’t know how Akram got the gun he used to take the synagogue members hostage.As the drama began, Keller police dispatchers talked to the hostage-taker and Rabbi Charlie Cytron Walker the first 90 minutes until FBI got in place.

COLLEYVILLE, TEXAS - JANUARY 16: Law enforcement officers conduct inspections around the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue on January 16, 2022 in Colleyville, Texas. All four people who were held hostage at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue havAuthorities say Akram committed an act of terror, demanding the release of a Pakistani woman being held at a Fort Worth federal facility for trying to kill U.S. soldiers and authorities.

"We learned pretty early on that this was an active hostage situation," said FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew DeSarno. "The hostage rescue team, they are the best team in the country, maybe in the world, and conducting what is the most dangerous law enforcement activity that exists."

He was investigated in the UK for his extremism and was still allowed here?!? Let’s go Brandon.

Should never have happened. He should not have been in the US!!

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