DCPD-202200021 - Remarks on the Hostage Situation at the Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, and an Exchange With Reporters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - DCPD-202200021 | Content Details

DCPD-202200021 - Remarks on the Hostage Situation at the Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, and an Exchange With Reporters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Publisher: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration

Document Categories: Addresses and Remarks : Hostage situation at Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, TX

Subjects: Civil rights : Minorities :: Anti-Semitism
Communications : News media :: Presidential interviews
Justice, Department of : Attorney General
Justice, Department of : Bureau of Investigation, Federal
Law enforcement and crime : Gun control
Law enforcement and crime : Law enforcement officers, service and dedication
Pennsylvania : President's visit
Terrorism : Global threat
Texas : Hostage situation at synagogue in Colleyville

Names: Akram, Malik Faisal; Cytron-Walker, Charlie; Garland, Merrick B.; Siddiqui, Aafia.

Notes: The President spoke at 11:58 a.m. at the Philabundance food bank. In his remarks, he referred to U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland; Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani national serving an 86-year sentence at FMC Carswell Federal prison in Fort Worth, TX, for attempted murder and other charges in the 2008 shooting of U.S. military and law enforcement personnel in Ghazni, Afghanistan; Charlie Cytron-Walker, rabbi, Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue, who, along with three congregants, was taken hostage in the synagogue on January 15 and later escaped unharmed; and Malik Faisal Akram of Blackburn, United Kingdom, the suspected hostage taker, who was killed when a Federal Bureau of Investigation Hostage Rescue Team entered the synagogue following the escape of the hostages.