White Driver Claimed to Be a State Trooper Charged with Hate Crime for Yelling Racial Slurs, Attempting to Stab Off-Duty Police Lieutenant with Box Cutter
An upstate New York man is faces hate crime charges after a racial attack on a Black motorist. 60-year-old William Ryan William Ryan, was arrested and charged with second-degree menacing as a hate crime after following a man and his son in Newburgh. He attempting to stab them with a box cutter and calling them the N-word. Ryan also claimed he was a state trooper CBS News reported.
Robert McLymore, a pastor and police lieutenant says he let another driver get in front of him in traffic which upset Ryan. The man rear-ended Mclymore’s car he was traveling in with his son. Ryan followed the Black family into a parking lot and accosted them with the box cutter. Video shows part of the incident.
“I’m an off-duty trooper, you f—-ng stupid n—-r,” Ryan said as he pulled away in a red pickup truck.. “You’ll always be a n—-r. You’ll never be white. You’ll never be white. F— you!”
“That’s how troopers act?” Mclymore asked.
“F—- you,” Ryan said.
The news station reports that the New York State Police said Ryan is not a trooper.
“I just couldn’t believe it,” Mclymore said. “I couldn’t believe the racial epithets, him saying that he was a cop or a trooper. Most of all, him doing what he did, and he’s an older gentleman.”
“Forty-five years I’ve been living here. Nobody’s ever done anything like this. Nobody has ever put a box cutter to my face or anything like that or disrespected me in any way,” he said. “So I was shocked. I replay it in my mind probably every three seconds.”
The video footage sparked outrage in the diverse city, however, McLymore said, he forgives Ryan. The pastor and his son were not injured, in the incident but Ryan punctured Mclymore’s cellphone case.
“There is no place for hate in our community,” Newburgh Police Chief Anthony Geraci said. “Mr. Ryan will be held accountable for his criminal actions and deplorable speech. His racist threats were not only harmful to the victim in this case, but echoes deep within our city.”
Newburgh Mayor Torrance Harvey, a Black man, said he was surprised to learn of the incident.
“I just couldn’t believe somebody would use those words in 2022,” Harvey said.
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