A white Army veteran accused of fatally stabbing a black man in New York City was charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime in a Manhattan criminal court on Thursday. James Harris Jackson, 28, intended to “kill as many black men here in New York as he could” on Friday, the day he attacked Timothy Caughman, 66, with a 26-inch sword, prosecutor Joan Illuzi said, according to NBC New York. Surveillance video from before the killing shows Jackson stalking another black man without attacking him, according to CBS News. I’ve got the knife in my coat.”Jackson revealed to police that he’s harbored a hatred for black men for at least 10 years, authorities said during a Wednesday press conference. The New York Times reported that Jackson wrote a manifesto detailing his plans, which he had intended to deliver to the paper.

Source: Huffington Post March 24, 2017 02:55 UTC