The chilling videotaped confession of a white supremacist who stabbed a black man to death in Manhattan was released on Tuesday, exposing a mind filled with racism and hate.
"Just like taking out the trash, almost," is how James Harris Jackson described killing Timothy Caughman in March 2017.
Jackson showed no remorse across the eight-hours of interrogation by NYPD detectives.
Not only did he admit to killing Caughman because Caughman was black, Jackson said he wanted to kill more black men in New York.
"Obviously, I wanted to kill successful black men in suits, or boisterous thugs — the guys who can pull high-quality white women, basically," Jackson said.
Jackson, who was 28 years old at the time, told police that he traveled from his home in Baltimore to New York on a murder mission — one he practiced for.
"This way, at the neck, or this way into the chest," Jackson said, showing detectives how he intended to stab his victims.
Jackson said he was looking to send a message to Americans, especially whites, that interracial relationships were wrong.
"I viewed this as a domestic terrorist attack on the African-American community, and beyond that, really an attack on the modern interracial mixing," the white supremacist said.
The victim he choose at random, a 66-year-old who loved taking pictures with celebrities, was collecting cans on West 36th St. Jackson stabbed him multiple times with a mini-sword.
"When I killed that guy, it wasn't, I didn't get like a rush of — I thought I was going to go into a berserker or madman viking and start hacking people apart. It just didn't happen. I was kind of shocked," Jackson said.
Caughman's cousins and Jackson sat in the courtroom while the video played during a pretrial hearing.
"He came to New York to kill black men. I have five black brothers, besides black cousins," one of Caughman's family members told NY1.
"He is invisible to me," she added about Jackson. "Anybody who has that much hate in their heart."
Jackson turned himself in after police released surveillance video of him. In the confession, he said he was a Nazi and also hated Muslims and Jewish people.
He said he could have killed many other black men that day in Times Square and Central Park but he was afraid he would be caught because there were witnesses.
"Blacks basically having children with our women," Jackson said in the tape. "They are really screwing it up. Our kids are talking and thinking like them now. Our women are worshiping them. It is bad."
Jackson's defense lawyers are arguing the video shouldn't be allowed as evidence. They say detectives tricked their client in to confessing without having a lawyer present. A judge will rule on the motion at a later date.
Jackson faces murder and terrorism charges and could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted. His trial is scheduled to start in January.
Main story image above: James Harris Jackson sits during a pretrial hearing in Manhattan on Tuesday. Jackson said in a videotaped confession that he killed a man in Manhattan last year because he was black. Photo courtesy of Alec Tabak.