Photo courtesy of WAVY.
The 47-year-old racist man who still lives with his mommy and tortures his Black neighbors daily with the N-word and monkey chants has been identified as John Michael Eskildsen. According to the Washington Post, the cowardly Eskildsen has been torturing his neighbors for nearly a year.
Jannique Martinez recorded the harassment and told WAVY-TV that her neighbor has racist music and skits containing the N-word that play anytime her family leaves and returns home. She said the harassment first began with blinking lights with sensors. When the family came and went, loud music would accompany the blinking lights.
After her husband parked his truck in front of Eskildsen’s house one evening, Martinez said that the recordings of monkey chants began. Now, whenever Martinez or a family member leaves or returns home, they are tormented with money chants, the N-word and blinking strobe lights.
“Since that day he’s been playing N***** skits that he found online. ‘Black people have nothing better to do but go to a comedy club on a Friday night,’ and, ‘Hey everyone, look it’s N***** guy.'”
Despite the State of Virginia law defining disturbing the peace as
“tumultuous or obstreperous conduct,” the Virginia Beach police claimed that they could do nothing about the racist-ass white man tormenting the family with the N-word and monkey chants.“It shall be unlawful and a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person to disturb the peace of others by violent, tumultuous or obstreperous conduct or by threatening, challenging to fight, assaulting, fighting or striking another.”
According to a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, Kim Forde-Mazrui, the Virginia Beach Police Department is cowardly for not arresting the man under the state’s hate-crime laws.
“The city and police department are being cowardly for not intervening and, if necessary, bringing charges so that a court can decide whether this is constitutionally protected,” she said.
It’s also possible that the police responding to the calls are just as racist as the neighbor and condone his behavior. Martinez noted that she and her husband served in the military, yet, law enforcement has done nothing to help them.
“According to the law, it’s just a statement or a phrase or he’s not doing enough or bodily harm or threats to my family,” said Martinez. “Why does it have to go that far before something that can be done? People shouldn’t have to live like this. I spent 11 years in the military. My husband is also in the military. We fought for this country, but yet there’s no one to fight for us.”
Meanwhile, the veteran said that her son is terrified of Eskildsen.
“My son is terrified of him. Terrified, terrified.”
The Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia has assigned an investigator to assess how to help the Martinez family.