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December 12, 2019

Authorities Investigate Shooting Outside NJ Kosher Market as Hate Crime
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In Jersey City, New Jersey, hundreds of people gathered Wednesday night
to mourn victims of Tuesday's mass shooting, which authorities are
calling a hate crime. Authorities say the shootout began when two
suspects killed a police officer and then fled to a kosher supermarket,
where a gun battle with police unfolded. The alleged assailants were
linked to the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, described as a hate group
by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The shootout left six people dead
and follows a pair of deadly attacks at U.S. synagogues within the past
14 months, including the 2018 attack at Tree of Life synagogue in
Pittsburgh that claimed 11 lives.


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