Two people were killed in a shooting in the eastern German city of Halle on Wednesday, two others were seriously wounded and police said they had detained one person. A synagogue and a Turkish restaurant were targeted, local media and witnesses said.

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Police released the only detained suspect on Tuesday, saying there was no evidence to link him to the attack. 

They now say more than one suspect may be on the run, possibly armed, and security has been stepped up in the German capital.

Consider the adjectives we use to describe our history, none of them passive: many of the colonists were “fleeing” religious persecution; the Salem witch trials were a “rush” to judgment; and all our “revolutions,” industrial, cultural and political.