This archive report was first published on 12 December 2019.
On December 10, 2019, a devastating attack on a kosher market in Jersey City, New Jersey, left six people dead, including a police detective. The incident has been described as a 'violent, anti-Semitic hate crime.'
According to investigators, the attack was fueled by anti-Semitic and anti-police views expressed online by one of the suspects, David Anderson, 47. Mr. Anderson appeared to have a connection to the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, which has been listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Surveillance footage showed the attackers driving slowly toward the market, where they calmly opened the door with two long rifles. The store was part of a budding ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Jersey City.
Mayor Steven Fulop of Jersey City said the footage showed the attackers stopping in front of the market and opening fire. 'The perpetrators stopped in front of there and calmly opened the door with two long rifles,' he said.
He and Ms. Graham are also suspects in a recent killing in Bayonne, N.J., according to officials.
Across the Hudson River, Mayor de Blasio of New York City announced that the New York Police Department had formed a new unit within its intelligence division, known as Racially and Ethnically Motivated Extremism. The unit is primarily tasked with investigating terror threats from far-right and neo-Nazi organizations.
