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Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s home tagged with ‘Nazi’ graffiti

Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s home tagged with ‘Nazi’ graffiti

The Michigan home of U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, who is Jewish, was defaced with “Nazi” graffiti. A picture of the tagging was posted online by Emanuel’s friend, former adviser to President Obama David Axelrod, who denounced the antisemitic attack. The picture shows a wooden fence outside Emanuel’s Michigan home vandalized with the word “Nazis.” HISTORIC RISE IN ANTISEMITISM HAS AMERICAN JEWS ON EDGE: ‘GENERATIONAL CHALLENGE’ “This was scrawled on the fence outside the MI home of [Emanuel],” Axelrod wrote on X. “It’s despicable. It’s disgusting,” Axelrod wrote. “It’s just one more flashing red light.” “Stop the hate. Stop the antisemitism and Islamophobia,” he continued, warning “We know where it leads!” Emanuel, the former mayor of Chicago as well as Obama’s former chief of staff, was nominated to be U.S. ambassador to Japan by President Biden in 2021 and assumed his post in March 2022. His father, pediatrician Benjamin Emanuel, immigrated to the U.S. from Israel with $13 in his pocket and set up a successful medical practice, the Chicago Sun-Times reported in 2019. Former United Nations Human Rights Commission Delegate Jeffrey Robbins responded to Axelrod’s post, warning that, unfortunately, “it is no longer where it leads.” “Sadly, we are there,” Robbins wrote. Fox News Digital reached out to the State Department for comment. Emanuel told local press that his “family is very proud of how our friends, neighbors and the community have rallied to our support and in a singular voice in condemning hatred and bigotry.” Emanuel also thanked “local law enforcement for their diligence, swiftness and seriousness in which they have addressed this crime.” The graffiti comes amid an uptick in antisemitism across America following the deadly Oct. 7 surprise terror attacks in Israel by the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas. Carolyn Normandin, the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in Michigan, told Fox News Digital about the situation on the ground in her state. “We typically get [reports of] two to three incidents a week. In three weeks between Oct. 7 and Oct. 21, we got 61 [reports],” Normandin said. She was hesitant to label this a more than 600% increase in reporting, noting there have been duplicate reports of identical incidents. Nationwide, the ADL reported that antisemitic incidents rose 388% over the same period last year. In addition to a number of threats delivered over social media, Normandin said her office has vetted and responded to in-person attacks. In one incident, rocks were thrown at Michigan Jews. In another, an individual called a doctor’s office and made threats related to the conflict in Israel against a Jewish physician. Fox News Digital’s Beth Bailey contributed reporting.

Supreme Court rejects ex-cop Chauvin appeal for a new trial in George Floyd murder

Supreme Court rejects ex-cop Chauvin appeal for a new trial in George Floyd murder

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from the Minnesota ex-cop Derek Chauvin, who was convicted in the Memorial Day 2020 murder of George Floyd. Chauvin and his legal team had argued that his 2021 trial in Minneapolis was held during a time of political upheaval, and the jury was tainted by the likelihood of even more violent riots if he had been acquitted. “This criminal trial generated the most amount of pretrial publicity in history,” Chauvin’s attorney William Morhmann said at the time of the appeal. “More concerning are the riots which occurred after George Floyd’s death (and) led the jurors to all express concerns for their safety in the event they acquitted Mr. Chauvin — safety concerns which were fully evidenced by surrounding the courthouse in barbed wire and National Guard troops during the trial and deploying the National Guard throughout Minneapolis prior to jury deliberations.” The Minnesota Supreme Court also declined to hear the case, effectively upholding Chauvin’s conviction. The former officer is serving a sentence of more than two decades in prison. DEREK CHAUVIN CLAIMS NEW EVIDENCE SHOWS HE DIDN’T CAUSE GEORGE FLOYD’S DEATH, ATTEMPTS TO OVERTURN CONVICTION Floyd died on May 25, 2020, after Chauvin kneeled on his neck for nearly 10 minutes despite his cries of not being able to breathe. GEORGE FLOYD DEATH: FORMER MINNEAPOLIS POLICE OFFICER SAYS WHEN HE SAW FLOYD’S FACE, ‘HE DIDN’T LOOK GOOD’ Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill sentenced Chauvin to 22.5 years after jurors found him guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Chauvin was in court last week filing a separate motion claiming that new evidence he has shows he didn’t cause Floyd’s death and that he never would have pleaded guilty in 2021 if he had known about the theories of a Kansas pathologist, whom he had been in contact with in February.  Chauvin is asking the judge who presided over his trial to throw out his civil rights conviction and order a new trial, or at least a hearing for him to present the new evidence. DEREK CHAUVIN SENTENCED TO 21 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR VIOLATING GEORGE FLOYD’S CIVIL RIGHTS According to records, Chauvin says Dr. William Schaetzel, of Topeka, Kansas, told him that he believes Floyd died from complications of a rare tumor called a paraganglioma that can cause a fatal surge of adrenaline.  It is noted that the pathologist did not examine Floyd’s body but did review autopsy reports. In his motion, Chauvin claims that no jury would have convicted him if it had heard the pathologist’s evidence. Floyd’s killing led to a firestorm of protests and riots across the U.S. and even in Europe. The unrest saw police precincts, small businesses and vehicles burned in cities and small towns across the country. Fox News Digital’s Stepheny Price and Andres Hagstrom contributed to this report.