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A Mount Laurel, New Jersey, man, captured on video in 2021 harassing and intimidating his Black neighbors, has been sentenced to eight years in prison […]
In 2021, Edward Cagney Mathews verbally attacked a neighbor and posted a video challenge “to come see me,” leading to […] The post Man who harassed Black neighbors, hurled racial slurs, gets 8 years in prison appeared first on TheGrio.
Edward Mathews, 47, was sentenced on Friday for years of racially abusing his black neighbors in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. Mathews sobbed in court on Friday and said he was sorry.
Man Charged With Hate Crimes After Racist Tirade Is Caught on Video Edward Cagney Mathews was recorded hurling racist harassment and challenging people to “come see me.” On Monday, his neighbors did just that, staging a protest outside his home. More than 100 protesters showed up outside the home of Edward Cagney Mathews on Monday.Credit...Tom Gralish/The Philadelphia Inquirer, via Associated Press July 6, 2021 A New Jersey man who was caught on video shouting racist insults and harassing his neighbors was arrested twice and charged with several hate crimes, with his second arrest coming ...
Mathews, 45, was in Burlington County Jail Tuesday. But in another outburst Friday, Mathews allegedly targeted a Black neighbor on Gramercy Lane, according to a probable cause statement for his arrest. Alleged harassment caught on camera The neighbor, Verlyn H. Gibbons, went to Mount Laurel police Friday, reporting Mathews “was harassing her by approaching her front door, shouting offensive language and racial slurs at her." Gibbons also said she suspected the white man was responsible for criminal mischief to her vehicle. According to the statement, Gibbons answered her door later in the ...