White man pleads not guilty in deadly NYC stabbing of black man


James Harris Jackson, who allegedly travelled to New York City and fatally stabbed an African-American man in an racially motivated attack, appears in State Supreme Court in New York City, U.S. April 5, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A white man who police said traveled to New York City to harm black people pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to a charge of murder "as a crime of terrorism" for the fatal stabbing of an African-American on a Manhattan sidewalk last month.

James Jackson, 28, turned himself in to police on March 22 after authorities circulated security-camera footage of him, describing Jackson as the suspect in the killing two days earlier of 66-year-old Timothy Caughman.

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