Gunfire at a Jersey City kosher market recently left a police officer, two suspects, and three bystanders dead. Subsequently, the investigation revealed alleged online hate as the drifters’ motive. Perhaps unsurprisingly, officials adopted the label
domestic terrorism for the violence, which began a mile away at a cemetery. After opening fire at the market, the pair held off armed police and federal officials for four hours with hundreds of rounds of ammunition, per the news.
Additionally, less than a week later, a Jersey City man allegedly threatened to “bomb all of the Jews” there. He made the alleged threats during a phone call with a welfare worker. Indeed, the judge did not release the suspect on bail. Instead, she ordered him detained during the entire prosecution. Read More
Did you know the Attorney General of New Jersey upped the ante for the state’s COVID-19 Coronavirus crackdown? Indeed, Gurbir Grewal has singled out six individuals for coronavirus threats to cops. And his office has charged four with Second Degree Terroristic Threats During a State of Emergency pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2c:12-3. Among them, a woman in Belleville. But a report from NJ dot com offers scant detail on what brought police into contact with this alleged offender. Instead, it begins with the conclusory opinion that she would likely only have faced charges for shoplifting, obstruction and resisting arrest. And seemingly for good measure the report throws in additional charges of aggravated assault on an officer, two counts of throwing bodily fluid at an officer, and terroristic threats during a state of emergency. Read More
