Dr. Greenberg has authored a missive to address the lawless violence that has been happening in the past week in the United States, taking a step toward preventing more destruction and loss of life in planned events of the upcoming week.

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A Call to All Clergy and Faith Leaders to Condemn Lawless Violence; to Admonish and Reprove the Perpetrators

On January 6, 2021, our nation witnessed one of the most dangerous coordinated assaults on its democratic process that it has ever seen. Rioters stormed the Capitol building, inflicting untold property damage, and causing duly elected public officials to flee in fear for their lives, as rioters broke windows, stole podiums and damaged priceless public property, and took selfies in the hallowed chambers of Congress, wearing costumes and carrying banners and slogans whose very nature made a mockery of the sacred process of governing a nation such as ours. In the tumult, at least five people lost their lives. Simultaneously, there were rallies around the country which echoed the anarchy in our nation’s capital, but one such rally in Los Angeles stood out from the rest in that it saw the assault of an innocent bystander, an African American woman named Berlinda Nibo, who was accosted verbally as she walked past a gathering of protesters (later declared by LAPD to be part of an unlawful assembly) who then physically took her captive and began to assault her in numerous ways, including the use of pepper spray and physical battery. Read more...