New York Post

This’ll wipe the smirk!

Kin ditch ‘race killer’

- By REBECCA ROSENBERG

White supremacis­t James Harris Jackson smirked his way through a Manhattan court appearance Monday in the racially motivated stabbing death of a black man.

But the avowed racist, who told cops he traveled to New York from Baltimore intent on killing black people, had no reason to smile when he learned that his family had turned its back on him.

Defense lawyer Sanford Talkin told the court that because there was no one to pay him, he could no longer represent Jackson (top inset) in the March 20 murder of Timothy Caughman (bottom inset), who was killed with a 26-inch sword.

“The family doesn’t have the funds?” asked Justice Charles Solomon in Manhattan Supreme Court.

“Whether they have the funds or not I’m not sure, but I can say his parents are not going to pay,” the lawyer said.

The judge asked Jackson whether he could hire a new lawyer.

“That’s not possible,” Jackson responded.

Solomon told the defendant he would assign a new attorney Wednesday, when Jackson will be arraigned on charges that include first-degree murder as an act of terrorism.

The Army veteran spotted Caughman, a canand-bottle recycler, stooped over a garbage can on Ninth Avenue near West 36th Street and lunged at him, stabbing him repeatedly, Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi has said.

Caughman, 66, stumbled into the Midtown South Police Precinct station house just before he died.

Two days later, Jackson, 28, turned himself in, telling cops, “You need to arrest me,” according to a criminal complaint. He told investigat­ors he was particular­ly offended by black men who date white women.

Mayor de Blasio spoke at Caughman’s funeral Saturday in Jamaica, Queens.

“He was attacked for who he was, plain and simple,” de Blasio said. “It was an attack on New York City.”

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