His license ‘hate’ plate must go: pol

ALBANY — The state is moving to revoke a Queens man’s vanity license plate that contains an anti-Semitic acronym used by neo-Nazis, the Daily News has learned.

The offensive license plate belongs to Queens resident Paul Schmieder and reads “GTKRWN,” which to hate groups stands for "gas the k---s, race war now.”

The Department of Motor Vehicles said Thursday afternoon that it began this week the process of yanking the license plate after being told by The News that Assemblywoman Nily Rozic of Queens was sending a letter calling on the agency to act.

The DMV, according to its regulations, can bar a license plate that is “in the discretion of the commissioner, obscene, lewd, lascivious, derogatory to a particular ethnic or other group, or patently offensive.”

In the letter to Motor Vehicles Commissioner Theresa Egan, Rozic (D-Queens) wrote that “this specific language serves to agitate and incites violence against the Jewish community.”

“As the overseeing authority of New York State license plates, I request that your agency immediately revoke Mr. Schmieder’s offensive vanity plates and ensure that it is not re-assigned to a different motor vehicle,” Rozic wrote. “

The DMV said it had begun the process of revoking the license plate this week “in response to customer complaints.”

Rozic’s office said the assemblywoman found out about the license plate after a constituent alerted her to a Commune online magazine story where writer, Jay Firestone, went undercover for three months into the alt-right community.