Alleged Jersey City Killers Connected to Same Group That Sparked Covington Outrage but Media Basically Ignored

Tragedy struck Tuesday in Jersey City, New Jersey, when two shooters opened fire at a kosher supermarket, killing three civilians and engaging in an hours-long standoff with local authorities.

That standoff eventually resulted in the deaths of both alleged shooters — identified by authorities as David Anderson and Francine Graham — who had also taken the life of Jersey City Police Department Detective Joseph Seals at a nearby cemetery before their attack on the Jewish supermarket.

Citing a law enforcement official, The New York Times reported that Anderson had on several occasions espoused anti-Semitic rhetoric online.

According to CNN, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said at a news conference Thursday both suspects had expressed interest in a black supremacist movement known as the Black Hebrew Israelites — an organization that even the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center classifies as a hate group.

Grewal did say neither suspect appeared to have a formal connection to the anti-Semitic group.

According to the SPLC, Black Hebrew Israelites “advocate the superiority of the black race and that African Americans represent God’s true ‘chosen people.’ As God’s ‘true’ Jews, BHI adherents believe that Jews who self-identify with Israel are ‘scam artists’ and imposters. BHI adherents believe they are divinely empowered by God with superiority.”

“Some BHI adherents have been prone to violence, which they feel is justified by God, as long as it helps rid the world of evil,” the SPLC says.

If the BHI name sounds familiar, it’s because members of the group popped up back in January as the main agitators of an incident that the establishment media wrongly blamed on a group of underage Catholic high school students from Kentucky.

Of course, the media did try to provide cover for a few of the group’s D.C.-based demonstrators when they confronted and intimidated Covington Catholic High School students outside the Lincoln Memorial.