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NJ mayor calls for federal hate crime investigation after viral racist rant
MT. LAUREL, N.J. - The mayor of Mount Laurel, New Jersey is calling for a federal hate crime investigation into a man's racist words and actions that were caught on video. Mayor Stephen Steglik, of the small town in South Jersey, said the footage "is disturbing and speaks to a larger hate-filled divide within our country."Tuesday's statement at length called for a federal hate crime investigation into Edward Mathews' actions and words. A recording of the altercation on Friday between two neighbors in the Essex Place condo complex has since gone viral on social media. Edward Cagney Mathews, 45, argued with his neighbor, spitting and shouting racial slurs in a six-minute rant.