Man Dares Viral Video Viewers to ‘Come F*cking See Me’ During Hate Speech Rant, Gets Exactly That

A New Jersey man got here to his seemingly long-deserved comeuppance this week after he shouted racial slurs on digicam, challenged these listening to “Come fucking see me,” and was arrested whereas 150 protesters gathered exterior his residence.

Numerous information retailers lined the incident, which started final Friday when a video of 45-year-old New Jersey man Edward Cagney Mathews screaming at a Black man exterior the latter’s home for an unknown purpose went viral on-line.

Motherboard reported that no matter set off the altercation is unclear, however Mathews could possibly be clearly heard repeatedly yelling slurs at his Black neighbors, calling them “monkeys” and “n*****s,” in addition to telling a Mount Laurel police officer that “whitey… has no jurisdiction here” and “Fuck you, go talk to the monkey n*****s.” He additionally claims the proper to face in entrance of the door as a result of “Learn the law. It’s not Africa.” During the video, Mathews additionally states his dwelling tackle and dares viewers to return there.

On Monday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, quite a few folks did simply that, gathering at Mathew’s condominium and chanting “We want Edward!” In the morning, Mathews tried to apologize to the group to little avail. The Inquirer wrote that police arrived later that night and arrested Mathews in entrance of the group, charging him with fourth-degree bias intimidation and trespassing. According to NJ.com, some within the crowd pelted Mathews with water and juice bottles as he was escorted to a police car for transport, whereas riot police intervened after they started smashing home windows on his residence.

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A fellow resident on the 3800 block of Grammercy Way advised authorities she has been “continually harassed” by Mathews, in accordance with NJ.com, whereas a spokesperson for the Mount Laurel Police Department confirmed to the positioning that Mathews will now face extra fees of bias intimidation and assault after investigators decided the video pictured him spitting on one in every of his targets. Local residents advised a number of information sources that Mathews had a longstanding sample of racial harassment they usually weren’t happy with the best way police dealt with it. NBC Philadelphia reported that residents mentioned that they had reported his conduct to Mount Laurel police a number of occasions with no severe motion taken till the video went viral.

“The main thing that makes you shake your head is how in the world has this gone unaddressed,” Southern Burlington NAACP president Marcus Sibley advised NJ.com. “…We’re looking for reform. When we say that we feel intimidated, we feel like we’re being hurt and harmed, we would love for the response to be ‘This is wrong. This is inhumane. This is disrespectful, and we are going to prosecute at the fullest extent of the law, so other people learn this isn’t how you treat people.’”

Fellow condominium resident Ashleigh Gibbons, 35, advised the Inquirer that Mathews had moved in two years prior and “He’s been harassing ever since.”

According to Motherboard, one other native resident shared a Facebook post wherein she recounted an incident wherein Mathews “KICKED IN MY DOOR” just for police to do “NOTHING.” The Facebook publish additionally incorporates a photograph of the girl’s automobile with the sentence, “I am a n***** who sucks cocks.”

In an interview with the Inquirer, Mathews supplied one of many worst non-apologies of all time—explaining he was drunk whereas angered a couple of working housing dispute, however helpfully clarifying he spews the very same racial slurs on a regular basis, together with at white folks. He additionally denied accounts by neighbors that he repeatedly engaged in racist harassment.

“I certainly wasn’t expecting an encounter like that and certainly wasn’t expecting to disrespect anybody,” Mathews advised the Inquirer. “Let me be clear: That is no excuse for what I said, but I lost my temper… Anybody that knows me knows that I just talk like this.”

According to NBC, Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina advised reporters on Monday night, “I want to especially commend the victim who showed incredible restraint with somebody spewing awful, vile things in his face. Assaulting him. That’s the subject of the additional charge today. That was on video.”

Coffina additional defined the police inaction was on account of an absence of proof: “They had seen videos that weren’t available to us on Friday night that were even worse than what we did have available to us on Friday night. And the protesters had every right to be upset about that because this is despicable conduct.”

Mount Laurel Police Chief Stephen Riedener added that in prior conditions wherein officers had introduced Mathews to court docket, “charges were either dismissed or no probable cause was ever found,” in accordance with NBC. He added that due to the video police had been “finally able to get the evidence that we needed to actually charge him with the crimes he was committing.”

You know, versus, say, being shamed into motion by the video going viral and an enormous protest.

“He said to pull up. We pulled up,” Aliya Robinson, a 43-year-old realtor who attended the protest, advised the Inquirer. “We’re not going to tolerate this anymore.”