{"id":16740,"date":"2023-03-23T14:26:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T21:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=16740"},"modified":"2023-03-23T14:26:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T21:26:28","slug":"supremacist-group-in-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/supremacist-group-in-san-jose\/","title":{"rendered":"Leader of San Jose supremacist group arrested after threatening to kill Brooklyn journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nicholas Welker, also known as \u201cKing of Wrath,\u201d leader of a white supremacist group in San Jose, was arrested last Tuesday after being charged in federal court in Brooklyn with conspiring and making death threats against a journalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, the complaint accuses Welker, the former leader of the Feuerkrieg Division (FKD), an international racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist group, of posting death threats against a Brooklyn-based journalist on a public online forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welker's supporters also tweeted death threats at the journalist for reporting on the extremist group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs alleged, Nicholas Welker used threats of violence in an effort to prevent a journalist from reporting on the white supremacist hate group he led. He sought to stifle free speech and to intimidate and instill fear in a journalist and the journalist\u2019s employer, a well-known media organization,\u201d said U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

"We will not hesitate to prosecute those who threaten the fundamental values on which our society was founded, including freedom of the press," he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peace highlighted the investigative work of the FBI's New York Joint Terrorism Task Force, the New York City Police Department and more than 50 federal, state and local agencies, as well as the FBI's San Francisco Field Office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs alleged, Mr. Welker and those he encouraged attempted to silence a journalist with threats of violence. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are integral to our nation, and we will not allow them to be curtailed through violence or intimidation. Today\u2019s action serves as a reminder to anyone willing to attack these rights: the FBI will do everything in our power to fulfill our mission of protecting the American people and defending the Constitution,\u201d said Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welker\u2019s threat included an image showing a gun pointed at the journalist\u2019s head with the words \u201cRace traitor,\u201d while over the journalist\u2019s eyes was written \u201cJOURNALIST, FUCK OFF! YOU\u2019VE BEEN WARNED.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The threat stresses that the journalist "works as a reporter" at a media company and is "responsible for harassing our boys for information." <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Welker posted the threat on an online forum, Welker\u2019s two underage co-conspirators \u2014 who were also members of the white supremacist group \u2014 tweeted the threat directly to the journalist\u2019s Twitter handle, hoping that the journalist would see the death threat and stop reporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As alleged in the complaint, Welker was the leader of an extremist group whose members share the common goal of challenging laws, social order and government through terrorism and other violent acts, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The supremacist FKD organization, with members at home and abroad, encourages attacks against racial minorities, the Jewish community, the LGBTQ+ community, the US government, journalists, and critical infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If convicted, Welker faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Nicholas Welker, tambi\u00e9n conocido como \u00abKing ov Wrath\u00bb, l\u00edder de un grupo supremacista en San Jos\u00e9, fue arrestado el pasado martes, luego de haber sido denunciado en la corte federal de Brooklyn por conspirar y hacer amenazas de muerte en contra de un periodista. De acuerdo con la Oficina del Fiscal Federal del Distrito Este […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cover","8":"category-usworld"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16743,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16740\/revisions\/16743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}