New York Daily News

‘BASICALLY A NAZI’

Sicko nabbed in racist slay rants

- BY SHAYNA JACOBS

He’d make Hitler proud.

The hate-mongering horror who allegedly stabbed a random black man to death with a sword in Times Square last year told detectives he was a Nazi at heart who blamed blacks and Jews for society’s ills, prosecutor­s revealed Tuesday.

James Jackson, 30, calmly detailed his sick beliefs, including that interracia­l relationsh­ips were corrupting society and that Jews were creating “cultural problems,” to investigat­ors after his March 2017 surrender.

Video footage of the Baltimore man’s confession played at a pretrial hearing in Manhattan Supreme Court since last week and continuing Tuesday offered a sickening look at the twisted logic behind the Army veteran’s motive when he allegedly approached 66year-old Timothy Caughman from behind with an 18-inch sword and repeatedly stabbed the helpless victim on March 20, 2017.

“I’m basically a national socialist — a Nazi,” Jackson (photo) said, less than two days after the murder. Stopping interracia­l couples, Jackson insisted, would stop their reproducti­on.

“Nothing else matters,” he said. “Every stat we have says they’re not our people,” Jackson said of African-Americans. “They don’t produce. They don’t build Manhattan. They don’t build cities like this.”

The sicko insisted black people “are intellectu­ally incapable” before turning his hatred toward another target. “We have a minority of Jews causing most of our cultural problems,” Jackson told investigat­ors.

Jackson faces life in prison without parole if convicted on the top murder count. The hearing to determine the admissibil­ity of the video statement and others he allegedly made to law enforcemen­t wrapped Tuesday and a trial date was set for January.

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