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San Jose leader of White supremacist group threatens Brooklyn journalist

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A screen shot by the King of Wrath. Photo: DOJ SAN JOSE, Calif. - The San Jose leader of a White supremacist group who goes by "King ov (sic) Wrath" was arrested Tuesday for allegedly threatening a journalist in Brooklyn, New York, the Department of Justice Announced.

The complaint charges that Nicholas Welker, 31, the one-time leader of Feuerkrieg Division, an international racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist group, posted death threats against a Brooklyn-based journalist in a public online forum and his co-conspirators tweeted the death threats at the journalist for reporting on the extremist group.

The journalist and their outlet were not named. Efforts to immediately reach Welker and his attorney Wednesday were not successful. "Nicholas Welker used threats of violence in an effort to stop a journalist from reporting on the white supremacist hate group that he led," Breon Peace, US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York said in a statement. " He sought to quell freedom of expression and to intimidate and instill fear in a journalist and the journalist’s employer—a well-known news media organization.

We will not hesitate to prosecute those who threaten the core values on which our society was founded, including freedom of the press." Nicholas Welker’s threat included an image that featured a gun aimed at the journalist’s head with the words "Race Traitor" over the journalist’s eyes and stated, "JOURNALIST F[***] OFF!

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