Viet Nam Human Rights
In the US: Got killed because of being black
26/3/17
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| James Harris Jackson (L) and his victim, Timothy Caughman |
A 66-year-old man was stabbed to death in Manhattan late
Monday, for one reason: being black.
In the early hours
of Wednesday morning, James Harris Jackson walked into an NYPD substation in Times Square and announced that he was responsible for
Timothy Caughman's death.
"I'm the
person you're looking for," he said, adding that he had knives in his
pocket.
The 28-year-old Baltimore, Maryland
resident took a bus to New York
on March 17 with the goal of targeting black men, according to NYPD Assistant
Chief, Bill Aubry. Jackson
is being charged with second-degree murder.
"The attack
was clearly racially motivated," Aubry said Wednesday. "It's well
over 10 years he has been harboring these feelings of hate towards male
blacks."
Aubry said that Jackson randomly singled out Caughman and
stabbed him in the back multiple times while Caughman was
going through garbage on a Manhattan
sidewalk.
After the attack,
Caughman stumbled into the Midtown South Precinct in critical condition, police
said. He later died of his injuries at Bellevue Hospital.
Surveillance video
shows Jackson
running away from the scene after the stabbing. He later saw himself on the
news and decided to surrender to a police officer, Aubry said.
New York Gov.
Andrew Cuomo was one of a number of political leaders who expressed outrage at
the alleged racial motivation of the crime.
"Like all New
Yorkers, I am appalled by the senseless murder of Timothy Caughman," Cuomo
said in a statement. "In New
York, no one should feel unsafe for who they are, and
this despicable attack on one New Yorker is an attack on all New Yorkers."
"More than an
unspeakable human tragedy, this is an assault on what makes this city: our
inclusiveness and our diversity," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said
in a statement.
Sherrilyn Ifill,
the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational
Fund, said on Twitter that the incident was a "terrorist attack."
Jackson told police that he picked New York because it is the media capital of
the world and he wanted to make a statement. He had previously served in the
military and deployed to Afghanistan,
Aubry said police records show. Aubry also mentioned a 2013 interaction Jackson had with law
enforcement.
"At this
time, there is no connection of any crime involving the suspect here in
Baltimore," T.J. Smith of the Baltimore Police Department said, adding
that the BPD are keeping watch outside Jackson's home and expecting an NYPD
investigation in town.
Aubry said police
are working to add a hate crime or racially motivated crime to upgrade the
second-degree murder charge to first-degree murder.
"He knew what
he was doing when he was coming up here," Aubry said. "We're
fortunate it stopped at one and it wasn't more."
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