Jersey City mayor says gunmen targeted kosher market

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The mayor of Jersey City said Wednesday it’s “clear” that gunmen targeted a kosher market during a furious shootout that killed six people and raised questions about whether anti-Semitism was involved.

A police officer, three bystanders and two suspects all died in the violence Tuesday afternoon in Jersey City, just across the Hudson River from New York City. The 40-year-old slain officer, Det. Joseph Seals, who led the department in the number of illegal guns removed from the streets in recent years, was cut down by gunfire that erupted near a cemetery.

Police Chief Michael Kelly said the officer was trying to stop some “bad guys” near the cemetery. But further details were unclear. Chabad Rabbi Moshe Schapiro, who shops at the kosher store and attends a synagogue next door, said he spoke with the store owner, Moishe Ferencz. Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States are at near-record levels, the Anti-Defamation League said earlier this year. It counted 780 anti-Semitic incidents in the first six months of 2019, compared to 785 during the same period in 2018.

Video shot by residents recorded loud volleys of gunfire reverberating along one of the city’s main streets and showed a long line of law enforcement officers pointing guns as they advanced, yelling to bystanders, “Clear the street! Get out of the way!”

 

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Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States are at near-record levels, the Anti-Defamation League said earlier this year.

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