Jersey City's mayor called on Tuesday for a school board member to resign over a Facebook post in which she called Jews who had moved to the city "brutes" and suggested a deeper "message" to the deadly attack at a kosher market there last week.The mayor, Steven Fulop, was reacting
Jersey City’s mayor called on Tuesday for a school board member to resign over a Facebook post in which she called Jews who had moved to the city “brutes” and suggested a deeper “message” to the deadly attack at a kosher market there last week.
The president of the school board, Sudhan Thomas, said that Terrell-Paige’s statements did not reflect the Board of Education’s “outlook or value system.”Terrell-Paige ended her post by saying that she was “speaking as a private citizen not as an elected member of the Jersey City Board of Education” and that “these beliefs are mine and mine alone.”
The uproar over Terrell-Paige’s remarks came a week after Jersey City was plunged into a panic after two people fatally shot a police officer before mounting the deadly assault on the kosher market. It also coincided with the funeral for the slain officer, Detective Joseph Seals, a grim occasion for a city still reeling from one of the most violent days in its recent history.
Relations between the newcomers and longtime residents have sometimes been tense. Fulop, a grandson of Holocaust survivors, said in a 2017 interview that while Jersey City took pride in its diversity, there had been some “very aggressive solicitation.”
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