White man traveled to New York to kill black men and ‘make a statement,’ police say

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**Co'tor Shas**

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/03/22/white-man-traveled-to-new-york-to-kill-black-men-and-make-a-statement-police-say/?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.4971ce04c12d

A white man from Maryland who told police he traveled to New York to kill black men turned himself in on Wednesday, about 24 hours after he fatally stabbed a man he encountered on the street, officials said.

Authorities described the suspected attacker as someone who had long harbored feelings of hatred toward black men before violently acting on them this week. Police said he carried out the attack in a way that intended to draw attention.

“The reason why he picked New York is ’cause it’s the media capital of the world,” said William Aubry, assistant chief of the New York City Police Department. “And he wanted to make a statement.”

New York police said they charged James Harris Jackson, 28, with murder. Police said Jackson encountered 66-year-old Timothy Caughman shortly after 11 p.m. on Monday and stabbed him multiple times. Caughman went to a police precinct for help and was brought to Bellevue Hospital, where he died, police said.

Early Wednesday morning, a little more than 24 hours after the attack, Jackson walked into the police substation in Times Square and announced that he was wanted for murder.

“‘I’m the person you’re looking for,'” Jackson told the patrol officers there, Aubry said at a briefing later Wednesday.

Jackson also told them he had knives in his pockets, and police searched him and took him into custody, Aubry said. Police recovered what Aubry called a 26-inch “black mini-sword,” which he said police believe is the weapon used to stab Caughman in the back.

The attack is “extremely distressing,” James P. O’Neill, the New York City police commissioner, said at the same briefing.

Police gave few details of Aubry’s background on Wednesday, identifying him only as a Baltimore resident and military veteran. Jackson was in the Army for more than three years, deploying to Afghanistan between December 2010 and November 2011, according to Lt. Col. Jennifer Johnson, an Army spokesperson. His service record did not include any badges reflecting combat interaction with any enemy during that time. Jackson served as a military intelligence analyst and left the service in August 2012 with the rank of specialist.

It did not appear late Wednesday afternoon that Jackson had been arraigned, and it was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney.

Baltimore police said they do not have records of any interactions with Jackson, and his name did not appear in a search of Maryland court records. Authorities also said that Jackson traveled to New York from Baltimore on a Bolt Bus on Friday, staying at a hotel in midtown until Monday afternoon, at which point “he proceeded to wander through the city,” Aubry said.

Aubry said the initial investigation gave detectives little question about what prompted the stabbing.

“Based on statements that he made as well as a preliminary review of video, it reveals that the attack on Timothy Caughman was clearly racially motivated,” he said. Aubry went on to say that Jackson “was specifically intending to target male blacks for assault.”

While Aubry did not elaborate on what Jackson said to police about what motivated the stabbing, he did say that Jackson “has been harboring these types of feelings for quite some time,” adding: “It’s well over 10 years that he’s been harboring these feelings of hate towards male blacks.”

New York Mayor bill de Blasio (D) issued a statement calling the attack “more than an unspeakable human tragedy” and an assault on the city’s “inclusiveness and our diversity.”

“Now it’s our collective responsibility to speak clearly and forcefully in the face of intolerance and violence — here or across the country,” he said. “We are a safe city because we are inclusive. We are a nation of unrivaled strength because we are diverse. No act of violence can undermine who we are.”

Melissa Mark-Viverito (D), speaker of the New York City Council, called Jackson a white supremacist. She also tied the attack to a recent spike in reports of hate crimes both in the city and nationwide and invoked the election of President Trump, saying in a statement that the attack highlighted a growing divide that he “has only made worse.”

Officials say they are looking into Jackson’s background, relatives and his social media history, and detectives traveled to Maryland to speak with people there. Police said they have not found many interactions with law enforcement. New York police are working with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to see if they can upgrade the charges against Jackson to include that it was motivated by hate or racism, Aubry said.

Jackson “was very forthcoming” with detectives and “knew what he was doing when he came up here,” Aubry said.

ubry said the stabbing appeared to be random, saying that Caughman “happened to be going through garbage on the sidewalk, and he happened to be the unfortunate one” who Jackson encountered.

**Vaktathi**

Dude's got a grade A set of crazy eyes in the article.

Also, what's with white dudes who kill black people for no reason and...odd hairjobs?

**Hivefleet Oblivion**

Poor fella. Should have converted to Islam, then he'd have got way more publicity.

**Tactical_Spam**

I find it funny that the mayor was so quick to bash Trump and say he is responsible for the "hate crimes" when most were falsely reported or perpetrated by a colored person or a Jew.

**d-usa**

Post 5 in a thread about a story a white racist. And there are already two posts about Muslims, colored people, and Jews.

**nels1031**

Weird that he went to New York.

He's from Hampden. Could've walked 5 blocks and he would've been in Somalia for all he knew and saw.

**Frazzled**

d-usa wrote:
Post 5 in a thread about a story a white racist. And there are already two posts about Muslims, colored people, and Jews.

And evidently one trolling post.

To the topic.
1) he's crazy.
2) ship him to Texas. We have the death penalty.
3) If NYC has enhancements for hate crimes hit him with it.

**Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl**

Woah is there a rule that talking about racist murderers somehow summon racists or did I just make that up? I can't tell right now.

**nels1031**

Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
Woah is there a rule that talking about racist murderers somehow summon racists or did I just make that up? I can't tell right now.

You just made that up.

**Tactical_Spam**

Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
Woah is there a rule that talking about racist murderers somehow summon racists or did I just make that up? I can't tell right now.

I didn't know it was racist to say that there have been falsified hate crime allegations in the US when there have been falsified hate crime allegations in the US.

**Frazzled**

True however lets focus on the topic eh? This is an actual murderer.

**Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl**

Tactical_Spam wrote:
I didn't know it was racist to say that there have been falsified hate crime allegations in the US when there have been falsified hate crime allegations in the US.

But did you know that a Jew falsified my message? Damn!
[edit]That's another way to say “I used the edit button”

[/edit]

**feeder**

Fething hell. What a scumbag. I hope that wherever the servers that host the white power websites that radicalised this scumbag aren't near my house. I presume predator stirkes are inbound.

**Alpharius**

There are a lot of just plain bad posts in this thread already - so, FIRST AND FINAL GENERAL IN THREAD WARNING FOR ALL - obey all the rules of this site and leave off with the disingenuous 'LULZ' posting.

**Co'tor Shas**

Tactical_Spam wrote:
I find it funny that the mayor was so quick to bash Trump and say he is responsible for the "hate crimes" when most were falsely reported or perpetrated by a colored person or a Jew.

I'm sure you totally have viable proof of that.

**Tactical_Spam**

Co'tor Shas wrote:
Tactical_Spam wrote:
I find it funny that the mayor was so quick to bash Trump and say he is responsible for the "hate crimes" when most were falsely reported or perpetrated by a colored person or a Jew.

I'm sure you totally have viable proof of that.

There was just an incident earlier this month where a journalist was arrested for threats against Jews. Or how about that one Muslim woman who lied about being attacked. Or how about the guy who painted a swastika on his own house?

I'm not excusing the man in the OP. I was just making a comment about a comment made by one of the NY politicians about an increase in the reports of hate crimes and their link to everyone's favorite umpa lumpa.

**d-usa**

Did the black guy kill himself here, or is there some other reasons those are relevant?

**Co'tor Shas**

Tactical_Spam wrote:
Co'tor Shas wrote:
Tactical_Spam wrote:
I find it funny that the mayor was so quick to bash Trump and say he is responsible for the "hate crimes" when most were falsely reported or perpetrated by a colored person or a Jew.

I'm sure you totally have viable proof of that.

There was just an incident earlier this month where a journalist was arrested for threats against Jews. Or how about that one Muslim woman who lied about being attacked. Or how about the guy who painted a swastika on his own house?

I'm not excusing the man in the OP. I was just making a comment about a comment made by one of the NY politicians about an increase in the reports of hate crimes and their link to everyone's favorite umpa lumpa.

That's not what I'm asking for, the words I am questioning is " when most were falsely reported or perpetrated by a colored person or a Jew."

**Tactical_Spam**

Co'tor Shas wrote:
Tactical_Spam wrote:
Co'tor Shas wrote:
Tactical_Spam wrote:
I find it funny that the mayor was so quick to bash Trump and say he is responsible for the "hate crimes" when most were falsely reported or perpetrated by a colored person or a Jew.

I'm sure you totally have viable proof of that.

There was just an incident earlier this month where a journalist was arrested for threats against Jews. Or how about that one Muslim woman who lied about being attacked. Or how about the guy who painted a swastika on his own house?

I'm not excusing the man in the OP. I was just making a comment about a comment made by one of the NY politicians about an increase in the reports of hate crimes and their link to everyone's favorite umpa lumpa.

That's not what I'm asking for, the words I am questioning is " when most were falsely reported or perpetrated by a colored person or a Jew."

"Most" was a hyperbolic statement on my part. "Many" would have been a better choice of words.

**Co'tor Shas**

Tactical_Spam wrote:
Co'tor Shas wrote:
Tactical_Spam wrote:
Co'tor Shas wrote:
Tactical_Spam wrote:
I find it funny that the mayor was so quick to bash Trump and say he is responsible for the "hate crimes" when most were falsely reported or perpetrated by a colored person or a Jew.

I'm sure you totally have viable proof of that.

There was just an incident earlier this month where a journalist was arrested for threats against Jews. Or how about that one Muslim woman who lied about being attacked. Or how about the guy who painted a swastika on his own house?

I'm not excusing the man in the OP. I was just making a comment about a comment made by one of the NY politicians about an increase in the reports of hate crimes and their link to everyone's favorite umpa lumpa.

That's not what I'm asking for, the words I am questioning is " when most were falsely reported or perpetrated by a colored person or a Jew."

"Most" was a hyperbolic statement on my part. "Many" would have been a better choice of words.

And, again, do you have data on the number of falsely reported hate crimes? Because it sounds like you are just repeating a narrative.

**feeder**

Tactical_Spam wrote:
Co'tor Shas wrote:
Tactical_Spam wrote:
Co'tor Shas wrote:
Tactical_Spam wrote:
I find it funny that the mayor was so quick to bash Trump and say he is responsible for the "hate crimes" when most were falsely reported or perpetrated by a colored person or a Jew.

I'm sure you totally have viable proof of that.

There was just an incident earlier this month where a journalist was arrested for threats against Jews. Or how about that one Muslim woman who lied about being attacked. Or how about the guy who painted a swastika on his own house?

I'm not excusing the man in the OP. I was just making a comment about a comment made by one of the NY politicians about an increase in the reports of hate crimes and their link to everyone's favorite umpa lumpa.

That's not what I'm asking for, the words I am questioning is " when most were falsely reported or perpetrated by a colored person or a Jew."

"Most" was a hyperbolic statement on my part. "Many" would have been a better choice of words.

According to the FBI, there were 5,850 hate crimes in the US in 2015. Does 0.0005% count as "many"? I contend that it does not.

A better choice of words would have been "a non-zero but statisically irrelevant number"

**nels1031**

Don't think the 2015 stats matter, as the poster that you are quoting was only attacking the assertion from someone that there has been a spike in hate crimes since the election of Trump, with some prominent ones having been false reports.

Poster in question said nothing about hate crimes from previous years in general.

**Co'tor Shas**

nels1031 wrote:
Don't think the 2015 stats matter, as the poster that you are quoting was only attacking the assertion from someone that there has been a spike in hate crimes since the election of Trump, with some prominent ones having been false reports.

Poster in question said nothing about hate crimes from previous years in general.

Which he has no data on, because the last time the FBI released their hate crime stats was 2015 (they haven't finished last year's numbers yet). 2015 is the latest we have.

**Frazzled**

Alpharius wrote:
There are a lot of just plain bad posts in this thread already - so, FIRST AND FINAL GENERAL IN THREAD WARNING FOR ALL - obey all the rules of this site and leave off with the disingenuous 'LULZ' posting.

Protip. If a mod gives a warning as above and you accidentally post after that, click edit and you can edit that later post to be in accord.

To the topic. Has there been any connection between him and extremist groups? This should be investigated as such like another terrorist act. It may be unlikely but it needs to be checked out.

**nels1031**

Co'tor Shas wrote:

nels1031 wrote:
Don't think the 2015 stats matter, as the poster that you are quoting was only attacking the assertion from someone that there has been a spike in hate crimes since the election of Trump, with some prominent ones having been false reports.

Poster in question said nothing about hate crimes from previous years in general.

Which he has no data on,

Do we have data that there's been a spike since The Don ascended? Genuinely curious. I see quite a bit(not here that I see, mind you) of that assumption thrown about on social media and some left leaning sites. Not so much lately, but it still pops up.

If you believe there has been a spike in hate crimes, and have that data, we can run those numbers against false claims.

Co'tor Shas wrote:
because the last time the FBI released their hate crime stats was 2015 (they haven't finished last year's numbers yet). 2015 is the latest we have.

But still irrelevant.

Edit; not an attack on what you're saying, its just that I see people automatically eat up the "spike in hate crimes" narrative but then discount anyone that brings up the fake ones. Seems intellectually dishonest.

**Co'tor Shas**

nels1031 wrote:
Co'tor Shas wrote:

nels1031 wrote:
Don't think the 2015 stats matter, as the poster that you are quoting was only attacking the assertion from someone that there has been a spike in hate crimes since the election of Trump, with some prominent ones having been false reports.

Poster in question said nothing about hate crimes from previous years in general.

Which he has no data on,

Do we have data that there's been a spike since The Don ascended? Genuinely curious. I see quite a bit(not here that I see, mind you) of that assumption thrown about on social media and some left leaning sites. Not so much lately, but it still pops up.

If you believe there has been a spike in hate crimes, and have that data, we can run those numbers against false claims.

I have no idea, I'm waiting for the FBI data, so we can compare late 2015 with late 2016. I've heard politicians claim it, but that's pretty meaningless, the most I can see is there seems to be more cases that are higher profile, and more of a focus on them.

Co'tor Shas wrote:
because the last time the FBI released their hate crime stats was 2015 (they haven't finished last year's numbers yet). 2015 is the latest we have.

But still irrelevant.

When talking numbers, it's still relevant, as it gives us an indication of the "normal" number of hate crimes. Meaning we'll probably see a similar number of 2016, it may be higher or lower, but it's not going to be 200 or 10000.

**Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl**

Tactical_Spam wrote:
"Most" was a hyperbolic statement on my part.

A very poor one at that, especially when “Many” is still way too hyperbolic. It entertains a narrative that hate crimes are not that much of a problem because “most” (i.e. a statistically insignificant number) are fake. Oh, I forgot, your post also gave the impression that more hate crimes are committed by PoC and Jews than by non-Jews whites. Was that the message you intended to give?

**Mr. Burning**

nels1031 wrote:
Weird that he went to New York.

He's from Hampden. Could've walked 5 blocks and he would've been in Somalia for all he knew and saw.

Being in New York is part of 'making a statement'?

Maybe he knew his act would get more exposure being in and around NY?

Makes him less of a nutcase and more of an evil scumbag if that's the case.

**feeder**

nels1031 wrote:Don't think the 2015 stats matter, as the poster that you are quoting was only attacking the assertion from someone that there has been a spike in hate crimes since the election of Trump, with some prominent ones having been false reports.

Poster in question said nothing about hate crimes from previous years in general.

It's the most recent data available, and gives a general idea of the number of hate crimes we can expect to see. The point is, while there is a non-zero number of falsely reported hate crimes, it is so tiny as to be irrelevant, and certainly not something that needs to be trotted out whenever there is a high-profile hate crime committed.

Frazzled wrote:Has there been any connection between him and extremist groups? This should be investigated as such like another terrorist act. It may be unlikely but it needs to be checked out.

Do you think he came up with the whole Race War BS on his own? I very much doubt it. Just as the Fort Hood shooter's FB history was full of ISIS likes, I'll bet 100 donuts that this scumbag's history is chock full of Stormfront and KKK and a whole slew of "Freedom" and "Liberty" and "Patriot" nonsense.

Disclaimer: Freedom, Liberty and Patriot are fine and decent and honourable concepts that have largely been co-opted by scum of earth.

**nels1031**

feeder wrote:
It's the most recent data available, and gives a general idea of the number of hate crimes we can expect to see. The point is, while there is a non-zero number of falsely reported hate crimes, it is so tiny as to be irrelevant, and certainly not something that needs to be trotted out whenever there is a high-profile hate crime committed.

I'd say it can be trotted out when a politician, as in the original OP, references an as yet unverifiable and unproveable 'spike' in hate crimes. The poster that you quoted was attacking that statement, perhaps not with the best method, and walked back the language a bit, but attacking it nonetheless.

As well he should, as its ridiculous for elected officials to talk out of their ass like that.