New Yorkers joined local lawmakers to rally in remembrance of the man allegedly killed by a white supremacist earlier this week. NY1's Matt McClure filed the following report.
Residents started a makeshift memorial at the spot where police say 66-year-old Timothy Caughman was fatally stabbed Monday night in Caughman's honor.
Prosecutors say 28-year-old James Jackson traveled from Maryland to kill black men here. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams says the killing is a symptom of a larger problem - in the city, and across the country.
"This knife is a knife of racism, but it's also a knife of terrorism. And if we try to isolate this incident and say, 'Well, this is just one deranged person,' no. He comes from a sea of deranged people that are swimming with the tide of America's philosophy right now," said Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams.
Adams and others calling on the NYPD, prosecutors and everyday citizens to do more to prevent attacks like this from happening in the future.
"The office of the inspector general showed that no more than five percent of the NYPD's budget for investigations, for intelligence, was spent on white supremacists. No more than five percent. That is unacceptable," said Albert Fox Cahn, legal director of CAIR NY.
"Every American needs to know this person's name and needs to ask himself or herself, 'What have I done to end racism?'" said Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.
Those in attendance vowed to keep Caughman's memory alive and to continue speaking out against hate as long as racists target communities of color.
As for the suspect in this case, Jackson is charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime and criminal possession of a weapon.