On October 5, Edward Mathews was officially charged with 22 separate charges on six different incidents against Black neighbors.
The Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office announced new charges against Mathews and other separate charges against four protestors.
“The only silver lining to Mathews’ rantings is that it allowed the justice system finally to intervene to hold him accountable for his conduct, not just that day, but for several other incidents and in the larger picture, for his alleged campaign of harassment against African American members of the Essex Place HOA over fourteen-month,” the prosecutor’s report stated.
The prosecutors stated that Mathews had been charged on “six separate incidents involving harassment, vandalism and bias crimes against his neighbors,” all of which are Black.
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“However, MLPD may not have recognized the true problem – Mathews’ relentless, racially-motivated campaign to harass African American HOA board members until they left the board or even their homes,” the prosecutor’s report said.
Four protestors are being charged for the incidents of that day. The protestors’ crimes have reportedly been caught on video or shown in a local newscast the night of the protest.
“These actions included deploying pepper spray at the officers and Mathews, spitting at police officers, throwing a brick through a window of Mathews’ townhouse, and throwing a rock in the direction of the police putting Mathews in the patrol car, striking and damaging the police vehicle,” the report stated.
As previously reported, Mathews’ racist confrontation took place on July 2 in Mount Laurel, New Jersey. He was caught on video and surrounded by other neighbors as he aggressively approached and yelled racial slurs at a Black neighbor who was stood idly by. Mathews shouted at the man, told him to learn the law, and called him a “monkey.”
Besides the viral incident on July 2, Mathews had reportedly had several complaints filed against him for racial harassment in the past.
