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Vauhxx Booker charged with felony after White men allegedly attacked him
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Black man who says he was attacked in attempted lynching charged with assault
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A Black Activist Says Two White Men Jumped Him Last Summer Now, He s Charged with Assaulting His Attackers
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A Black man who alleged that a group of white men assaulted him and threatened to get a noose at an Indiana lake is facing misdemeanor trespass and felony battery charges more than a year after the incident, The Associated Press reported on Monday.
Vauhxx Booker, a local civil rights activist, was charged over his involvement in the July 2020 assault at Lake Monroe, which was the subject of an FBI investigation. Booker slammed the charges, describing them as an outrageous act of punitive retaliation and prosecutorial vindictiveness. This incident has been a continual case of a victim being re-victimized by the system, his legal team said in a statement Monday. It is the victim in this assault Vauhxx Booker who is being made to pay for having stood his ground against malicious racist name-calling, physical assault, and threats against his life.”
Aug 2, 2021 / 10:28 PM EST
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WISH) The man at the center of a July 4, 2020, attack near Lake Monroe on Monday called for
his criminal charges to be dropped and the special prosecutor to step down.
Vauhxx Booker was charged Friday in Monroe Circuit Court 2 with battery and criminal trespassing.
Booker claims to have been the victim of a hate crime near Lake Monroe. Since then, the men Booker claims to have attacked him, Sean Purdy and Jerry Edward Cox, have been charged in the attack. Each face charges including criminal confinement, battery, and intimidation. Now more than a year later, a special prosecutor has charged Booker with battery and criminal trespassing in connection to the incident.