Shapiro Declines To Back Schumer’s Call For Hate Crime Probe: 'It’s Not My Job’

The Pennsylvania governor, while giving a tour of his home's destruction, said he doesn’t think outside opinions about the arson attack are “helpful.”

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) declined to support a call for federal prosecutors to open a hate crime investigation into an arson attack at his home this week, saying “it’s not my job” but more leaders do need to “condemn this kind of violence.”

“I know as a former prosecutor how important it is to follow the evidence and apply the law and do so without fear or favor. In this case, I’m the victim in the crime, I’m not the prosecutor,” he told “Good Morning America’s” George Stephanopoulos during a walkthrough of his home’s destruction.

Shapiro, standing amid the damage with his wife, got emotional while recounting his family’s celebration of the Jewish holiday Passover with community members in one of the large rooms just hours before the fire was set there.

“We were probably downstairs until probably almost midnight and then went upstairs, maybe got to bed around 1 o’clock and then this happened around an hour later,” he said.

Arson suspect Cody Balmer, who was arrested shortly after the blaze, was allegedly upset with Shapiro over his “perceived injustices to the people of Palestine,” authorities said.