Remember the racist guy we covered who decided to be racist in front of the police, calling everybody the n word. Well, he cried in court because he got eight years in prison to serve for. Let me remind you of the incident that made him indisputable famous. [00:00:16] >> Speaker 2: [CROSSTALK] [00:00:31] >> Speaker 2: Get these monkey out of here and you can't do. That's me talking. 3602 Gramercy Way, that's where I live. Come see me. >> Speaker 5: [CROSSTALK] [00:01:06] >> Speaker 6: All right, thank man. I appreciate it, I'll do my job. >> No problem. So I'm not going away until your husband stops finding me and threatening me while I'm at work. >> Speaker 2: [CROSSTALK] [00:01:26] >> Speaker 1: They came and saw him, all right. Put up the picture full mass. This is a hell of a narrative. Now, the police said, I'm not going to arrest you. I have never heard a cop prophesy that they are not going to arrest somebody. [00:01:43] First of all, you don't know the scene. Maybe he has done something illegal, which means you do need to arrest him, right? Well, the courtesies he received, I mean, he's the aggressor. The officer is saying, hey, just let me do my job here. [00:02:00] I'm just here to do my job. Forty-seven year old Edward Matthews, the man from Mount Laurel, New Jersey, whose racist rant went viral in 2021, [00:02:16] has been sentenced to eight years in prison on Friday. He pleaded guilty in October to four counts of bias intimidation, as well as possession of a dangerous substance with intent to distribute. [00:02:35] Yes, ladies and gentlemen, he was talking all that ish and also a drug dealer. This is just insane. There's more. Per NBC10 Philadelphia, an investigation into Matthews started around July 2nd, [00:02:51] 2021, after prosecutor said a resident went to the police department to file a harassment complaint against him. A short time later, officers responded to a residential neighborhood for a report of a man needing to be removed from the area. [00:03:09] Upon arrival, officers found Matthews using racial slurs while engaging in verbal altercation with four residents, according to prosecutors. It was revealed during the investigation that he brought upon himself that Matthews had a pattern of abuse against his neighbors, [00:03:26] including leaving a threatening note on one of their vehicles. In addition to harassment and using racial slurs, Matthews was also accused of stalking and damaging his neighbor's vehicles and smearing, wait for it, feces on their windows. [00:03:45] Videos of Matthews had gone viral showing him harassing and using racial slurs toward his neighbors. One of the videos showed Matthews repeatedly calling a black male a monkey in the n word while bumping his chest and appearing to spin in his face. Days later, massive crowds of protesters formed outside of Matthews' home for [00:04:06] hours in response to the video. So here's a recap of the protesters and his eventual arrest. It took all of this to get him removed. Here it is. [NOISE] [00:04:51] >> Speaker 2: So he gave out his address. He told people pull up and they obliged. That was an invitation, okay? You cannot say trespassing when you invited individuals to your home. So those were his guests. Ironically, based on law, he invited them. [00:05:08] There's more. The drug offense was filed after mushrooms were discovered during a search of Matthews' home, according to officials. So recap of the prior incident where he admits to selling drugs. [00:05:27] He admits to selling drugs and says the cops won't help his black neighbors here. >> Speaker 4: I sell drugs. That's what I do. That's what I've always done around here. I stopped, went to prison three times. Now I have all the friends with the cops. [00:05:43] If you guys want to keep going at this route, we're gonna go the legal route. You're not gonna get any help from the cops because they're my people. Do you understand? That's why you're not getting anything. And I know that you've said that the cops came down and told me. They said, what do you want us to do, so you can figure that out? [00:05:58] We're not trying to cause you a problem. You're not trying to cause us a problem, right? >> Speaker 5: I've never been trying to cause you a problem. >> Speaker 2: Right, so there's no reason for the cops to come back around. We should be perfectly cordial to be able to have these conversations and be able to live around here with no problem. >> Speaker 5: Yeah, but now what you're talking about, [00:06:14] the cops aren't gonna help you or calling my brother. I don't bother you, I don't. >> Speaker 4: Calling your brother. >> Speaker 5: Yeah, he did do that. >> Speaker 4: No, I said, now I'm gonna call the cops. That's what I said. >> Speaker 4: [CROSSTALK] [00:06:31] >> Speaker 4: We all heard you. >> Speaker 5: We all heard it. Yeah, everybody outside. I couldn't believe it because I wasn't even in the argument. >> Speaker 3: Right, you weren't even there either. >> Speaker 5: [CROSSTALK] >> Speaker 1: His mug shot again. The man went to the neighbor and said, listen here, listen, I sell drugs. [00:06:48] That's what I do. He should have been arrested when the officer first responded. For some reason he was not. It took an entire community to accept his invitation to come to his home before an actual investigation happened and he then got arrested. [00:07:07] He now has eight years to serve for. If he messes up inside of prison, they can max that time to the eight year number. All right, Ricky, thoughts here. >> Speaker 7: Yeah, they sent the police officers out from the [INAUDIBLE] Joe went [00:07:22] out there with all that patience, but they don't have that same kind of patience for African Americans. And he talked all that trash and gave out that address. And when they marched him out of the house, somebody had went to dollar tree and hit him in the head with a cheap soda pop. [00:07:41] >> Speaker 1: I saw the [INAUDIBLE]. We don't condone bother, but that was. >> Speaker 2: We don't. >> Speaker 7: We don't, man. But yeah, so now he's gonna do his time in prison. And I just love seeing justice for people like that, that kind of behavior, [00:07:57] that kind of racism or whatever. And it sends out a strong message to other people that have that in them, maybe work on themselves and get out of that, because it's just not gonna go well for you. It's 2023 even though it's a lot of racism still going on or whatever, but [00:08:14] communities, black folks are just not playing that. We're not taking it no more. And this is not the 50s. If you have the Internet now, you're giving out your address. You bold or whatever. Folks showing up. >> Speaker 1: Yeah, they're showing up. And the thing is that community got together. [00:08:32] They got rid of somebody who was a drug dealer according to his own words. Obviously, he was racist according to his own rhetoric. And now that community has been set free from that kind of tyrant. All right, we got more. [00:08:47] >> Speaker 7: [INAUDIBLE] him get marshed out of that. It was beautiful. >> Speaker 1: And the police marsh him out, probably for his protection at a point, but once they found all the illegal substances that he admitted to having, well, lights out.