Why are there no hate crime charges in the shooting of a Chicago Jewish worshipper?

Published October 29, 2024 3:31pm ET



On Saturday, at 9:30 a.m., 22-year-old Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi allegedly shot a 39-year-old Jewish man as he walked to his synagogue in a largely Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Chicago. During a subsequent shootout between the suspect and responding police officers, he appeared to be caught on Ring camera screaming “Allahu Akbar.”

But with the Chicago Police Department holding off on filing hate crime charges, media coverage of the incident has neglected key pieces of a crime that occurs as American Jews face an incredible onslaught of antisemitic hate.

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