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Nonprofi t outs white supremacist leader in Flushing
BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
cmohamed@schnepsmedia.com
@QNS
One of the biggest content creators in
the white supremacist alt-right movement
resides in Flushing, according to the
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a
nonprofi t watchdog group.
Joseph Jordan, a 30-year-old man from
Flushing, inhabited the online pseudonym
“Eric Striker” since at least 2015
while concealing his identity and pursuing
a leadership role in the world of organized
hate, according to an investigative
report from SPLC Hatewatch, that conducted
over a dozen interviews with people
inside and outside of the alt-right
movement.
A 2013 Queens College graduate with
a history degree, Jordan is described as a
man with “light olive skin, slicked-back
hair and rockabilly sideburns,” according
to the report.
“I cannot 100 percent prove that he’s
in Flushing right now. Th e last known
address he had was in Flushing and his
family lives there,” Southern Poverty Law
Center investigative reporter Michael
Edison Hayden told QNS. “If he is supporting
himself in someway I don’t know
of, he could be somewhere staying at a
friend’s house around the area. I just don’t
know when he’s home or not or how he’s
supporting himself.”
Jordan’s neighbors have seen him in
Flushing recently, but they don’t see
him as much on the block, according to
Hayden.
“We know that his mother and father
is half Latinx, either their fi rst or last
name. A neighbor told me that she knew
the family very well … that his mother is
an immigrant from South America,” said
Hayden.
Using his Striker persona online, Jordan
created a platform focusing his rhetoric
on his desire to drive Jewish people
out of America and warning his audience
against the threat of an “underground
homosexual culture,” according to the
report. His targets included Jewish people
and members of the LGBTQ community.
He is also the host of a downloadable
audio show called “Strike and Mike” with
an infl uential alt-right fi gure, Michael
Peinovich, who hosted his own podcast
“Th e Right Stuff .” Additionally, Jordan
contributed to over 700 posts to the Neo-
Nazi website, “Th e Daily Stormer” and
appeared on hundreds of alt-right podcasts
across dozens of shows, the report
said.
Additionally, Jordan hosted an anti-Semitic
YouTube livestream show called
“Th e People’s Square” under his Striker
persona, along with a co-host who goes
by the pseudonym “Borzoi Boskovic.”
Jordan’s podcasts and livestreams were
pulling over $1,000 per month and more,
said Hayden.
“Almost every major player in the movement
has been identifi ed at one point but
then you have this one guy who is Jordan
linked to Richard Spencer, David Duke,
Mike Peinovich, Andrew Anglin of the
Daily Stormer — these are the most notorious
white supremacists in the country,
The Southern Poverty Law Center says a Flushing man, identifi ed as Joseph Jordan, participated in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. in 2017
and is a prolifi c creator of white supremacist material online.
and here you have this guy who managed
to stay anonymous somehow,” said
Hayden.
According to the SPLC, Jordan also participated
in the deadly “Unite the Right”
rally in Charlottesville, VA, in August
2017. Jordan (hiding his face behind sunglasses
and a handkerchief) and Peinovich
also participated together in the anti-immigration
rally staged in front of the
White House in December 2017.
Since confi rming the hidden identity of
Jordan, Hayden said he has received messages
from people in Queens denouncing
the prominent alt-right fi gure.
“I’ve got people from Queens reaching
out to me on social media saying, “‘I
can’t believe this … we don’t want this in
Queens,’” said Hayden. “People should be
vocal in rejecting white supremacy and
they have every right to be horrifi ed that
this individual is living in their community.”
In a statement to QNS, City Councilman
Photo via Wikipedia Commons
Peter Koo said, “Flushing is one of the
most diverse neighborhoods in the world.
We are birthplace of religious freedom
dating back to the 1600s with the signing
of the Flushing Remonstrance. We
embrace each other’s cultures, respect our
diff erences and learn from one another.
Hate speech and white supremacy have no
place here, and the people of Queens will
always condemn these intellectually and
emotionally stunted ideologies whenever
and wherever they surface.”
Little Neck home invaders still at large
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
rpozarycki@qns.com
@robbpoz
Two men who robbed and raped a
34-year-old woman and terrorized her
family during a home invasion in Little
Neck over the weekend were still at large
as Th e Courier went to press.
Cops are looking for the duo, as well as
a third individual who assisted them, in
the violent encounter that took place at
about 9:31 p.m. on May 4 in the vicinity
of 251st Street and 57th Avenue.
According to law enforcement sources,
the 34-year-old woman was leaving
the residence when the two men —
one of whom brandished a fi rearm —
approached and forced her back into
the home.
Security camera footage that the NYPD
released on May 6 shows one armed suspect
chasing the victim inside the house
and two other perpetrators walking in.
Seven other people were in the residence
when the victim re-entered along
with the two home invaders, sources
familiar with the investigation said. Th e
seven residents were forced to a bedroom,
where they were detained as one
of the robbers took the victim upstairs
and searched for loot.
Th e victim provided the robber with
$1,000 in cash, and then the suspect sexually
assaulted her, police said. Aft er the
attack, he brought the victim back downstairs
and removed another $800 in cash
from the woman’s 54-year-old mother.
But that wasn’t enough for the perpetrators,
police said, as they demanded
more money. Authorities said the victim
then went to another bedroom and provided
$8,000 in cash from a nightstand.
Th e second robber then sexually assaulted
her in that bedroom, police noted.
Th e two invaders, and a third individual
who entered the home aft er the
robbery began, then fl ed the scene in
two separate vehicles, a light-colored
four-door sedan and a light-colored
Photos and video courtesy of NYPD
Mercedes-Benz E Class series.
Th e incident was reported to the 111th
Precinct. Th e victim was taken to a local
hospital for treatment, and was listed in
stable condition.
Anyone with information regarding
the home invasion or the suspects’
whereabouts can call Crime Stoppers at
800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-
PISTA), visit the Crime Stoppers website,
nypdcrimestoppers.com, send a direct
message on Twitter @NYPDTips or text
274637 (CRIMES), then enter TIP577.
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