Black man claims group of assailants threatened to "get a noose" [View all]
Source: CBS News
A Black man says a group of White men assaulted him and threatened to "get a noose" after claiming he and his friends had trespassed on private property as they gathered at an Indiana lake over the Fourth of July weekend to watch the lunar eclipse.
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One video clip that he posted shows a white man holding Booker up against a tree. Another depicts a different man calling someone off-camera a "nappy headed (expletive)." In another, the same man yells, "You invaded us!" and calls someone in Booker's group a "stupid (expletive) liberal (expletive)."
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The incident prompted dozens of people to protest in front of the Bloomington, Indiana courthouse Monday.
CBS Indianapolis affiliate WTTV reports a red car hit two demonstrators at the peaceful protest. The protesters were demanding that charges be filed in the lake incident.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/i-was-almost-the-victim-of-an-attempted-lynching-black-man-says-group-of-white-men-assaulted-him/
Thank goodness the bystanders stepped in...could have been another black man who committed suicide by hanging.
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