Kristin Richardson Jordan

Jordan was criticized in the aftermath of a fatal shooting in her district where two Hispanic NYPD police officers, Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora were shot and killed in a domestic disturbance call; choosing instead to issue tweets about a local community garden. After criticism by residents, she stated she was told not to tweet about the slain officers.^[13] Several days later, she publicly sent condolences to the family of Lashawn McNeil, the alleged killer who was shot and killed by a third officer, alongside the families of the fallen cops. Explaining her motivation, Jordan stated "I mourn the loss of literally all human life. I don’t see it as contradictory to mourn the life lost of Lashawn as well as the lives of Officer Rivera and Officer Mora."^[14]

In February 2022, Jordan received criticism for justifying the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine by claiming that the Revolution of Dignity was a coup led by the United States, European Union, and NATO.^[15] She said, "In 2014, the U.S. helped overthrow Ukraine’s democratically elected leader in an illegal coup, helped install a fascist government and empowered a far right military all with the goal of destabilizing Russia."^[16]

On housing, Jordan has said that she "would rather have lots sit empty than have them filled with further gentrification."^[17] In summer 2022, Jordan helped block a 1000 unit housing development which would have consisted of 50% affordable housing and a civil rights museum.^[18] Jordan's rationale was that said "what they're calling affordable is [not] actually affordable to the community," as only 12% of the units were earmarked for individuals earning 30% of the area median income.^[19][20][21] Jordan said she would only support projects where more than half of all units were earmarked for individuals earning less than 30% of New York median income.^[21] After the developer, Bruce Teitelbaum, agreed to make half the units affordable, Jordan asked for 100% affordable units, which was refused.^[22] As an alternative, a truck depot was placed under construction, planned to open in December 2022.^[23] The depot opened in January 2023.^[24]

In 2023, Jordan received significant criticism for pushing a bill to rename the intersection of 127th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem after Elijah Muhammad, the former leader of the Nation of Islam who expressed anti-Semitic and anti-White viewpoints, among other controversial statements. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit legal advocacy group known for classifying hate groups, has claimed Elijah Muhammad had called Jews "greedy" and spread the false claim that they had been the ones responsible for the death of Jesus Christ. In addition, city councilmember David Carr, beyond just citing the Southern Poverty Law Center's words on the Nation of Islam spreading hatred, called it "dishonorable" to name the street after Muhammad when the site had been the location of an NYPD cop being murdered by unidentified NOI members in 1972.^[25][26]

Jordan dropped out of politics in 2023.^[27]

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