Скачать или смотреть Man caught on video during racist rant in New Jersey taken into police custody

The man at the center of a community protest in Mount Laurel, New Jersey - sparked by his racist rant toward a neighbor - was taken into custody on Monday evening.

Water bottles and ice were hurled at Edward Cagney Mathews, and police officers, as he was brought outside.

"It was a difficult situation to extract him," said Mt. Laurel Police Chief Steve Riedner. "Unfortunately some in the crowd made it more dangerous for everybody."

Mathews will remain behind bars on assault charges until he is arraigned, which is expected sometime in the next few days.

Mathews is also charged with bias intimidation stemming from a now-viral video that shows him nonchalantly hurling the n-word multiple times at his neighbors.

Ring camera video shows the moments before the viral video. It shows Mathews knocking on the door of his neighbors - an interracial senior citizen couple - demanding the husband come out and speak with him.

"I have every right to be here. Get your husband," Mathews is heard saying.

The situation escalated when another neighbor interceded on that couple's behalf.

Most of the viral Facebook video is too graphic to play.

"This is not Africa, or (inaudible) or wherever the (expletive) you were," Mathews is heard to say.

The other man in the video replied, "I was born in America, and I don't give an (expletive) about you."

Action News spoke with Mathews via Zoom before he was taken into custody.

"There is nothing I'm going to be able to say that's going to justify me using the words that I used," he said. "Whatever I have to do to make it up to the community - and the world at this point, seeing how big it is - understand that I made a mistake, allow me the ability to move forward, just like we all deserve," said Mathews.

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