JERSEY CITY, N.J. – NBC News is citing multiple law enforcement sources for the names of both dead suspects in Tuesday’s deadly Jersey City shooting: David Anderson and Francine Graham.
While the motive for the attack on an Orthodox Jewish market remained unconfirmed by law enforcement, one which left six dead including the suspects and one police officer, NBC’s sources say Anderson “was a one-time follower of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement and his social media pages include anti-police and anti-Jewish writings.”
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Officials have remained unusually quiet about the attack’s perpetrators nearly 24 hours later.
Neither the Governor’s office or the N.J. Attorney General have confirmed anything nor has local law enforcement or the federal agencies on the ground in Jersey City.
Jersey City Democrat Mayor Steve Fulop tweeted Wednesday morning that he is “100% certain that this situation would have been far more tragic than what it already is. There is enough info to know this could have been far worse.” He also tweeted that there is zero evidence thus far of a connection to Islam but stopped short of offering additional details.
The fringe Black Israelite movement has a complex history; most recently, a group of movement members played a role in the now infamous confrontation between Covington Catholic students and a Native American protester near the Lincoln Memorial in January 2019.
Naturally, the American Left is slow to condemn Black Nationalism with the same ferocity with which it condemns White Nationalism.
“The black nationalist movement is a reaction to centuries of institutionalized white supremacy in America,” explains the radical Southern Law Poverty Center on its website. “Black nationalists believe the answer to white racism is to form separate institutions — or even a separate nation — for black people. Most forms of black nationalism are strongly anti-white and anti-Semitic. Some religious versions assert that black people are the biblical “chosen people” of God.”
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