James Jackson, the white supremacist who traveled from Baltimore to New York and stabbed a 66-year-old Black man to death, revealed in a jailhouse interview he wanted a younger victim. Jackson said that his murder of retired social worker Timothy Caughman was to hammer home a bizarre notion that white women should not enter into relationships with Black men.
New York Daily News exclusively reports:
Most chillingly, Jackson said he had traveled to New York from Baltimore intending to kill numerous black men, imagining that the bloodshed would deter white women from interracial relationships. “‘Well, if that guy feels so strongly about it, maybe I shouldn’t do it,’” he said, imagining how he wanted a white woman to think.
Jackson said he grew up in an “almost all-white” area outside of Baltimore. “My family is as liberal as they come … typical liberal Democrats,” he said.
His grandfather in Louisiana was “very pro-integration” and had crosses burned on his lawn, he said.
Jackson said he had his first racist thoughts when he was just 3. As he grew older, he only shared his views with “like-minded people” online, he said. He mentioned the website Daily Stormer — which was also frequented by Roof, who was sentenced to death for killing nine black worshipers in 2015.
Jackson, 28, was a former Army veteran and said his time in the military helped train him for his self-made mission to save the white race. In the chat with the Daily News, Jackson predicted that he’d either kill himself, get shot by police or, as his current predicament dictates, end up in jail.
Caughman was stabbed to death by an 18-inch sword by Jackson. Caughman was beloved in his Jamaican, Queens neighborhood and made extra money collecting bottles for recycling. Jackson said he wanted to kill a “young thug” who was “successful” but was scared to take on one man before choosing Caughman as a “practice run” victim.
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