Edward Cagney Mathews, 47, will likely be pressured to serve a minimum of 4 years of an eight yr jail sentence handed down Friday after he was caught in a viral video in July 2021 hurling racial abuse at a Black neighbor and spitting on him. It later emerged that he had been terrorizing Black individuals in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, for years. Mathews was captured on video calling his neighbor a “monkey” and the N-word, whereas bumping his chest and spitting on him. Authorities then found he had regularly used racial slurs towards Black neighbors, put feces on their property, despatched threatening emails and letters, and shot their vehicles with BB pellets. The video sparked tons of of individuals to converge on his house and name for his arrest. Mathews, who has already been in jail for 2 and a half years, sobbed in court docket however apologized for his “insensitive and disrespectful phrases.” “Each saint has a previous, and each sinner has a future,” he stated in his assertion to the court docket whereas shackled and handcuffed. “I wish to decide to rebuild the group.”
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