\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office said it has increased patrols around houses of worship in the region in the wake of recent violent incidents that have targeted religious communities.In the latest incident, a man armed with a rifle rammed a vehicle into one of the nation\u2019s largest Reform Jewish synagogues in Michigan on Thursday.Security at the synagogue opened fire as the attacker drove through a hallway, killing him. The FBI said the attack was being investigated as a \u201ctargeted act of violence against the Jewish community.\u201d\u201cWe are aware of recent incidents targeting places of worship across the country affecting congregations of all faiths,\u201d the Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office said. \u201cOut of an abundance of caution, we are increasing patrols around churches, synagogues, mosques, and other religious sites in our community.\u201dThe sheriff\u2019s office said it is also in contact with local religious leaders and will \u201cremain in communication with them to ensure they have a direct line to law enforcement.\u201d \u201cAt this time, there is no known threat to our area, but we encourage everyone to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activity to law enforcement immediately,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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The Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office said it has increased patrols around houses of worship in the region in the wake of recent violent incidents that have targeted religious communities.<\/p>\n
In the latest incident, a man armed with a rifle rammed a vehicle into one of the nation\u2019s largest Reform Jewish synagogues in Michigan on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Security at the synagogue opened fire as the attacker drove through a hallway, killing him. <\/p>\n
The FBI said the attack was being investigated as a \u201ctargeted act of violence against the Jewish community.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are aware of recent incidents targeting places of worship across the country affecting congregations of all faiths,\u201d the Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office said. \u201cOut of an abundance of caution, we are increasing patrols around churches, synagogues, mosques, and other religious sites in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n
The sheriff\u2019s office said it is also in contact with local religious leaders and will \u201cremain in communication with them to ensure they have a direct line to law enforcement.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cAt this time, there is no known threat to our area, but we encourage everyone to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activity to law enforcement immediately,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n
See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office said it has increased patrols around houses of worship in the region in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7363,3802,9172,99626,22172,99629,734,795,346,14308,92505,99628,121,123,122,2729,8580,43886,2429,99627],"class_list":["post-217211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-country","tag-fire","tag-house","tag-houses-of-worship","tag-jewish-community","tag-large-reform-jewish-synagogue","tag-law-enforcement","tag-michigan","tag-office","tag-patrol","tag-patrols","tag-recent-violent-incident","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-sheriff","tag-security","tag-synagogue","tag-thursday","tag-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}