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New Jersey man Edward Mathews sentenced to 8 years in jail for hurling racial slurs at neighbors in viral video
NYPost ^ | 12/09/2023

Posted on 12/09/2023 5:45:37 AM PST by devane617

A white New Jersey man who unleashed a racially charged viral rant and spat at his black neighbors sobbed in court Friday as he was sentenced to a lengthy stay in prison, apologizing for his “insensitive and disrespectful words.”

Edward Cagney Mathews, 47, will be mandated to serve four years of an eight-year sentence for pleading guilty to four counts of bias intimidation as well as possession of a controlled, dangerous substance with intent to distribute, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Superior Court Judge Gerard H. Breland made the ruling on Friday after a tearful Mathews spent the last two and a half years locked up in jail.

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future,” he said in his statement to the court while shackled and handcuffed. “I want to commit to rebuild the community.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: edwardcagneymathews; newjersey; racial
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To: Gay State Conservative

Yet gang bangers, murderers, those that assault and many others are routinely released with no bond. I don’t get this.


21 posted on 12/09/2023 6:48:04 AM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: devane617
Prosecutor “Hutchinson also cited Mathews’ extensive criminal record — 11 felony convictions since 1995. A drug conviction barred him from possessing weapons, she said. Authorities found a slingshot and 30 rounds of ball-bearing ammunition and hallucinogenic mushrooms when they searched his condo.”
22 posted on 12/09/2023 6:51:38 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: bk1000

You are an idiot if you cannot see that anti-white bias.


23 posted on 12/09/2023 7:12:31 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: bk1000

No one gets eight years for spitting and shouting.

If that were true the entire population of Newark would be incarcerated for life.


24 posted on 12/09/2023 7:18:00 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: devane617

Edward Cagney Mathews is just another malfunctioning convicted felon who cannot handle life in a free society and did all he could to return to the comfort of the state prison culture.


25 posted on 12/09/2023 7:19:14 AM PST by Round Earther
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To: devane617

But calling for genocide of Jews is just fine in NJ.

All that aadi, as foul as this is, it’s free speech. If he wants to act like a douche, that’s his right and problem. Shouldn’t be a crime.


26 posted on 12/09/2023 7:22:10 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: JesusIsLord

” as well as possession of a controlled, dangerous substance with intent to distribute”


27 posted on 12/09/2023 7:28:38 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: devane617

VERY misleading headline


28 posted on 12/09/2023 7:29:53 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: imabadboy99

Well yeah. Fair is fair.....right? 🤔


29 posted on 12/09/2023 7:30:02 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: devane617
The Deep State does not like dissenters or those who deviate from their will. 1984-type stuff.

All those videos on X and other places of non-whites ranting away and the Deep State looks the other way.

30 posted on 12/09/2023 7:34:04 AM PST by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: nuconvert

”as well as possession of a controlled, dangerous substance with intent to distribute”

Apparently, convicted felons distributing drugs and assaulting people is now, by some, considered free speech


31 posted on 12/09/2023 7:34:06 AM PST by Round Earther
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To: devane617

The sentence for drugs with intent to distribute is reasonable. Any claim of “bias intimidation” is pure BS and an obvious first amendment violation. The first amendment includes the right to be insulting and offense.

You have no right to not be offended.


32 posted on 12/09/2023 7:36:41 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: JesusIsLord

Defendants can, and often do, wave their right to a speedy trial. Some, anticipating conviction and long prison sentences, and expecting to get credit for “time served”, would rather sit in a county jail pending trial, than in state prison. If this miscreant had prior prison time, he might have reason to make that choice.


33 posted on 12/09/2023 7:37:58 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: FLT-bird

Is threatening people, assaulting people, destruction of private property and placing biohazards on other people’s property also covered under your version of First Amendment protections?


34 posted on 12/09/2023 7:44:16 AM PST by Round Earther
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To: Round Earther
Is threatening people, assaulting people, destruction of private property and placing biohazards on other people’s property also covered under your version of First Amendment protections?

Threats have to be "true threats"...ie real and immediate and to a specifically identifiable person to be actionable.

Speech is not assault.

Speech is not destruction of private property.

Speech is not placing biohazards on other people’s property.

If there are other things to charge him with, fine. Then charge him with those things. "Intimidation bias" is a violation of the first amendment.

35 posted on 12/09/2023 7:48:05 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: devane617


36 posted on 12/09/2023 7:52:43 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Chewbarkah
Defendants can, and often do, wave their right to a speedy trial.

I forgot about this option. As you suggest, it's likely what happened. Tks.

37 posted on 12/09/2023 7:54:14 AM PST by JesusIsLord ( )
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To: FLT-bird

Edward C. Mathews’ right of free speech rights did not include threatening people, but did include his crying like a baby in that courtroom.


38 posted on 12/09/2023 8:03:56 AM PST by Round Earther
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To: bk1000

And the Post makes it sound like it was solely racially motivated. They start with the racial stuff, then mention drugs. Sound familiar?! Have to keep the race “issue” going. Pathetic.


39 posted on 12/09/2023 8:11:38 AM PST by GMThrust
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To: devane617

Wrongspeech is properly punished.


40 posted on 12/09/2023 8:12:03 AM PST by arthurus ( covfefe remi)
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