The white New Jersey man who was caught on digital camera hurling racial slurs at his black neighbor can be hit with new expenses in connection to the belligerent episode, prosecutors stated.
Edward Cagney Mathews, 45, will face expenses of bias intimidation and assault after a video of the racial tirade sparked protests over the weekend outdoors his house in Mount Laurel, Burlington County Prosecutor Scott A. Coffina stated.
“I need to particularly commend the sufferer who confirmed unbelievable restraint with any person spewing terrible, vile issues in his face. Assaulting him,” Coffina stated Monday night at a press convention, NBC Philadelphia reported.
“That’s the topic of the extra cost at the moment. That was on video.”
The Mount Laurel police stated Mathews was initially charged with harassment and bias intimidation after a lady informed authorities he was constantly harassing her, the Burlington County Instances reported.
The newest expenses stem from footage of the opposite confrontation on Friday during which Matthews repeatedly approaches a black man’s doorstep and will get into his face — and at one level, bumps him together with his chest.
Within the footage of the incident, Mathews might be heard telling the unidentified neighbor to “study your legal guidelines.”
“This isn’t Africa … or wherever the f—okay you have been,” Mathews allegedly says to the person.
“I used to be born in America,” his neighbor responds, “and I don’t give a s–t about you.”
Edwards repeatedly known as the person the n-word and a “monkey” throughout the confrontation — and gave out his deal with to the individual filming him and challenged them to go to.
Three days later, demonstrators gathered outdoors his door for a number of hours, chanting, “We would like Edward!,” the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Different neighbors, together with Jazmyn Jene, claimed that Matthews had additionally subjected them to harassment.
“He made threats, filed false complaints, tried to pin individuals towards me always HARASSED ME,” she wrote on Fb.
“Tried to pressure me to drop expenses, spray painted my automotive… He KICKED IN MY DOOR with quite a few individuals current.”
He was arrested Monday by officers who escorted him by means of the crowds as he was pelted with water bottles, the shops reported.
Matthews has denied that he was a racist and apologized for Friday’s confrontation.
“I definitely wasn’t anticipating an encounter like that and definitely wasn’t anticipating to disrespect anyone,” Mathews informed the Inquirer. “Let me be clear: That’s no excuse for what I stated, however I misplaced my mood.”
