“Bring whoever"

“Bring whoever,” the man police identified as Edward Cagney Mathews, 45, added. The video, which appears to show Mathews repeatedly calling his Black neighbor the n-word and a “monkey,” went viral. Three days later, protesters started showing up at the address listed in the video. By Monday morning, dozens of protesters had gathered outside Mathews’s door, chanting “We want Edward!” the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. And, by the evening, the crowd appeared to have grown to more than 100. With a line of police officers guarding his house, Mathews briefly emerged during the protest and tried to apologize, the Inquirer reported, but protesters remained livid. As he faced charges for his behavior in the video, including harassment and biased intimidation, police later escorted Mathews out of his home with his hands behind his back.
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