FBI Director James Comey met with Jewish community leaders on Friday amid a spike in anti-Semitic threats and vandalism against Jewish institutions across the country.
His visit came the same day officers apprehended a suspect in St. Louis who was accused of calling in more than a half-dozen bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers. Juan Thompson, the former journalist accused of lodging the threats, is not believed to be the only culprit behind a wave of bomb threats that has swept the country in recent weeks.
Since January, more than 80 Jewish institutions have received more than 100 bomb threats.
President Trump has denounced the spike in anti-Semitic violence repeatedly, including during the opening of his joint address to Congress earlier this week.
