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BOSTON – Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the shooting that killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue an "attack on all the people of faith" Monday, saying their people will not be tolerated.
Sessions' remarks came into question in Boston on the importance of protecting religious freedom, which led the United States of America to form a key part of its Justice Department's agenda.
"This was an attack on the Jewish faith." "It was an attack on America's values of protecting those of faith," Sessions said at the event hosted by the Boston chapter of the Federalist Society at the Omni Parker House.
Federal prosecutors said Sunday they're asking for the green light to pursue a death penalty box against the suspected Tree of Life synagogue gunman, Robert Bowers.
Sessions, who has not said that he will approve the request, told the crowd Monday Bowers will be "submitted to the death penalty, perhaps."
Sessions' remarks were briefly interrupted by religious leaders, and they were quickly escorted out by police.
One man, wearing a clerical collar, rose from his seat, began reciting a passage from the Bible and called it Sessions to "repent and care for those in need." As the men protested, crowd members booed and shouted: "Go home!"
After they have been removed, Sessions defended the administration's immigration policies, saying it does not believe there's anything in the scripture or that it says "a secular nation state can not have laws to control immigration in its country."
"It's not immoral, it's not indecent and it's not unkind to state what your laws are and then set out to enforce them," Sessions said.
Sessions, who in July is the author of a "religious liberty task force" to implement the justice system, the said Trump administration will continue to fight against it.
"These are deeply troubling incidents that should concern everyone, religious or otherwise, who care about our Constitution," he said.
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