That story is really awful.billy.pilgrim wrote: ↑Sat Aug 07, 2021 12:06 amhttps://youtu.be/e1WMBiYSCOMVrede too wrote: ↑Fri Aug 06, 2021 7:16 pmIndiana.Indiana man who survived attempted lynching charged for fighting back
The hate group tore off some of Vauhxx Rush Booker’s hair as they beat his head and body, while yelling “White power.”
A Black man in Indiana who was almost lynched by a mob of white men in the woods is now being charged for defending himself during the attack....
The FBI ultimately opened a hate crime investigation into the attack, and Sean Purdy and Jerry Cox II were charged on July 17, 2020, with criminal confinement, battery, and intimidation, as reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Special prosecutor Sonia Leerkamp also charged Booker with felony battery and misdemeanor criminal trespass last week.
“It is unprecedented,” added attorney Katharine Liell, according to the Washington Post. “I’ve been practicing well over 30 years in this state and … I have never seen a special prosecutor open a new case and file charges a year later.”
Booker believes the charges are in retaliation for his refusal to sign a confidentiality agreement and participate in a pow-wow (mediation) with the racists who tried to kill him.
“There’s nothing more American than charging a Black man in his own attempted lynching,” Booker said Monday, per the Post.
“For the entire year, the special prosecutor has pressured and bullied me at every turn that if I didn’t engage with the restorative justice, if I didn’t let charges be dismissed, that she would charge me,” Booker said, the Post reported. “It wasn’t out of any new evidence or any shocking revelations. It was simply that, once again, a Black person telling a White person no — and they were going to punish me.”![]()
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Of course if Booker had signed onto BRD and told his story, he would have been mocked here incessantly for getting his "ass kicked".