Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib was the only member of the four-person freshman Democratic mini-caucus self-dubbed “the Squad” to offer comment on what authorities believe may have been a racially-motivated shooting in New Jersey this week.
“This is heartbreaking,” Tlaib said in a now-deleted tweet on Thursday morning. “White Supremacy kills.”
On Tuesday, 47-year-old David Anderson and 50-year-old Francine Grahm, who are both black, shot and killed a police officer in a cemetery in Jersey City. They later fled the scene and traveled to a kosher market and opened fire, killing three more people before they were shot dead by police.
Police say they believe the couple targeted the store, which is owned by a Jewish family. At least one of the shooters had also posted anti-Semitic messages online. Prosecutors have tied them to the Black Hebrew Israelites, which has been labeled as a hate group.
None of the three other members of “the Squad” — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts — have tweeted about the shooting as of Thursday afternoon.
The Washington Examiner has contacted each of the three members’ offices for comment on the incident.
