Jersey City shooters had hatred of Jews and law enforcement, attorney general says - CNN
(CNN)This week's deadly kosher market attack and the killing of a detective in New Jersey are being investigated as acts of domestic terrorism "fueled by both anti-Semitism and anti-law enforcement beliefs," the state attorney general said Thursday.
"We believe the suspects held views that reflected hatred of the Jewish people, as well as a hatred of law enforcement," New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday, citing evidence and witness interviews.
A surveillance camera captured the moment shooters opened fire on a Jersey City kosher market
Investigators believe David N. Anderson, 47, and Francine Graham, 50, killed a police detective near a Jersey City cemetery and then stormed a nearby Jewish market Tuesday, shooting and killing three people there and starting an hourslong police standoff that ended with their deaths, authorities said.
It's still not know why Anderson and Graham attacked the detective and the JC Kosher Supermarket in particular, Grewal said.
But evidence points to these being "acts of hate," Grewal said in a news conference in Jersey City. And the FBI is investigating this as "domestic terrorism with a hate-crime bias slant to it," said Gregory Ehrie, special agent in charge for the FBI in Newark.
Investigators currently think Anderson and Graham acted by themselves, Ehrie said.
Hasidic community coping with fear and grief
While both shooters have expressed interest in the Black Hebrew Israelites movement, neither appear to have established formal links to the movement, Grewal said. Grewal didn't specify evidence pointing to a hate crime, though he said social media accounts believed linked to the shooters "espouse certain viewpoints."
Grewal and others stressed that once at the market, the shooters apparently fired only at people in the market and at responding police officers, bypassing multiple opportunities to shoot others on the street.
"They were clearly targeting that store. They were clearly targeting the Jersey City Police Department," US Attorney Craig Carpenito said, partly citing surveillance video.
Theres more in the article, but its interesting how this particular case is being called domestic terrorism, but a lil white boy shooting people in a church is looked at as a young troubled lone wolf
Also, I can't even imagine how hot this board is right now
They need to treat ALL of these shootings in the US as domestic terrorism cases
(CNN)This week's deadly kosher market attack and the killing of a detective in New Jersey are being investigated as acts of domestic terrorism "fueled by both anti-Semitism and anti-law enforcement beliefs," the state attorney general said Thursday.
"We believe the suspects held views that reflected hatred of the Jewish people, as well as a hatred of law enforcement," New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday, citing evidence and witness interviews.
A surveillance camera captured the moment shooters opened fire on a Jersey City kosher market
Investigators believe David N. Anderson, 47, and Francine Graham, 50, killed a police detective near a Jersey City cemetery and then stormed a nearby Jewish market Tuesday, shooting and killing three people there and starting an hourslong police standoff that ended with their deaths, authorities said.
It's still not know why Anderson and Graham attacked the detective and the JC Kosher Supermarket in particular, Grewal said.
But evidence points to these being "acts of hate," Grewal said in a news conference in Jersey City. And the FBI is investigating this as "domestic terrorism with a hate-crime bias slant to it," said Gregory Ehrie, special agent in charge for the FBI in Newark.
Investigators currently think Anderson and Graham acted by themselves, Ehrie said.
Hasidic community coping with fear and grief
While both shooters have expressed interest in the Black Hebrew Israelites movement, neither appear to have established formal links to the movement, Grewal said. Grewal didn't specify evidence pointing to a hate crime, though he said social media accounts believed linked to the shooters "espouse certain viewpoints."
Grewal and others stressed that once at the market, the shooters apparently fired only at people in the market and at responding police officers, bypassing multiple opportunities to shoot others on the street.
"They were clearly targeting that store. They were clearly targeting the Jersey City Police Department," US Attorney Craig Carpenito said, partly citing surveillance video.
Theres more in the article, but its interesting how this particular case is being called domestic terrorism, but a lil white boy shooting people in a church is looked at as a young troubled lone wolf
Also, I can't even imagine how hot this board is right now
They need to treat ALL of these shootings in the US as domestic terrorism cases
