In 2017, a white man named James Harris Jackson stabbed Timothy Caughman, an unarmed random black man, to death in the middle of Times Square in NYC. Jackson walked up to police searching for Caughman's assailant and confessed to the crime. He absolutely confessed to killing Caughman for the sole reason that Caughman was black.
The man stumbled into the police precinct in Hell’s Kitchen late one night, staggering toward a tall reception desk painted black and blue. Before the desk officer could ask the man his business, he collapsed on a bench, dripping blood.
When officers pulled up his shirt, they found a series of deep stab wounds in his dark skin. As they struggled to stem the bleeding, they asked the man who had attacked him, but he could only groan. He died minutes later at a Manhattan hospital without saying a word.
Police scrambled to make sense of the March 20, 2017, slaying. A witness had seen the victim tussling with someone on the street half a block away. Surveillance footage showed a young white man with a black coat and neatly parted blond hair fleeing the scene.
But the motive was a mystery. And by the following evening, police still had no leads on the suspect — not even a name.
As two dozen officers gathered in Times Square — nine blocks from the crime scene — at midnight to continue the search, a solitary figure suddenly emerged from the stream of tourists. His flaxen hair was carefully combed.
“I’m the guy you’re looking for,” James Harris Jackson said, calmly slipping off his black jacket and setting it down in front of an officer. “There are knives in that coat.”
For the next five hours, in a videotaped interview that would later be entered into the court record, Jackson proudly told detectives how he had stabbed Timothy Caughman in the back with a Roman-style short sword simply because he was black.
Caughman, the 28-year-old Army veteran explained, was “practice” for a bigger attack in which Jackson aimed to kill as many black men with white women as he could.
“I was looking to get black men scared and have them do reciprocal attacks,” he said, “and inspire white men to do similar things.”
If the detectives really wanted to understand him, Jackson said, they should read the manifesto he had planned on sending to the media.
“The Racial World War starts today,” it began. “God has ordered us to eliminate the Negro races from the face of the earth for the good of all mankind.”
There's no doubt that both the number of and the casualties caused by hate crimes in the US have only skyrocketed under the Trump regime. But now we're seeing these crimes being linked to a much nastier movement, with a distinct goal in mind.
And this regime is helping them.
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