Was the Vermont shooting of 3 Palestinian men a hate crime? – NBC Boston

The man who was accused of shooting three college students Palestinian descent in Vermont about Thanksgiving Weekend 2023 spoke to court on Friday when his case worked on the way to legal proceedings.

While Josh Eaton's lawyers recommended that you are looking for mad defense, NBC partner WPTZ reported that he had claimed that he had worked with the CIA and the Israeli defense agency Mossad.

“Mr. Eaton tells us that under the instruction of the CIA, which then brought him in contact with Mossad, he acted,” said one of the man's lawyers to the judge.

Eaton was encouraged to go into more detail and said: “The only people I could offer them are confidential agents.”

The defense was looking for access to the telephone records of the shootout, which the prosecutors decidedly pronounced, and the judge declined to do according to WPTZ: “It was made independently of each other that these three people are connected to everything that would justify behavior here.”

Three college students Palestinian descent recover after being shot in Burlington, Vermont when walking in Burlington.

The three young men were shot and injured on Saturday after the Thanksgiving Festival when they went near the University of Vermont Campus in Burlington. The victims spoke in a mixture of English and Arabic and two of them also wore the black and white Palestinian Keffiyeh scarves, the police said. The suspect, a white man in the forties, shot her on her with a pistol, the police said.

Jason Eaton has not guilty compared to three cases of attempted murder. The judge said on Friday that according to WPTZ, the process was up to date in autumn.