US veteran charged with terrorism for killing black man

Police say James Jackson 'prowled the streets of New York for three days in search of a black person to assassinate'.

A white US Army veteran accused of fatally stabbing a 66-year-old black man has been charged with murder as an "act of terrorism" after telling police he was planning a race-based killing spree.
James Jackson, 28, "prowled the streets of New York for three days in search of a black person to assassinate in order to launch a campaign of terrorism against our Manhattan community and the values we celebrate," Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said in a statement on Monday.
"Last week, with total presence of mind, he acted on his plan, randomly selecting a beloved New Yorker solely on the basis of his skin colour, and stabbing him repeatedly and publicly on a Midtown street corner."
He was formally charged in New York State Supreme Court with one count each of murder in the first and second degrees as an "act of terrorism", murder in the second degree as a hate crime, as well as three counts of criminal possession of a weapon.