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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bevan Hurley

Man who went viral in 2021 for racist outburst sentenced to 8 years in prison

Burlington County Prosecutor's Office

A white New Jersey man whose racist abuse of a Black neighbour went viral on social media has been sentenced to eight years in prison.

Edward Cagney Mathews, 47, was filmed spitting, shouting and hurling racial slurs towards a resident at the Essex Place condominiums in Mount Laurel township, around 17 miles east of Philadelphia, on 2 July 2021.

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