Feds Probe Attempted Lynching In Indiana!

Two white men are facing a possible federal sandwich for trying to lynch a Black man.

Early in July, a Black civil rights activist was threatened by a group of white people at an Indiana lake. The video shows two white men attack a Black man.

The two terrorist who I won't mention by name are being charged with various criminal charges, including confinement and battery against Vauhxx Booker of Bloomington.

One of the men is charged with criminal confinement, battery resulting in injury and intimidation, all felonies. The other man is charged with aiding or causing criminal confinement, felony battery in injury, intimidation and two misdemeanor counts of battery.

Booker is a member of the Monroe County Human Rights Commission, post on social media the encounter.



Booker and his friends were visiting a public beach at Lake Monroe outside Bloomington. A large group of white people said they were on private property and began following them.

Some of the men became belligerent. When Booker went to some of the sober white people, the confrontation escalated.

A group of white men were seen holding Booker to a tree as his friends plead with them to release him. In the video, one man shouts at the camera, "You happy about this, you nappy-headed bitch? You and your five white friends?"

Indiana activist shares his encounter at a lake. He said he is blessed he didn't become George Floyd or any other person of color being killed.

As Booker's friends leave, one of the men follows, shouting, "Those Black boys want to start it all."

Attorneys for one of the men in the video claimed Monday that Booker was the instigator.

"Mr. Booker needs to tell the truth about punching people and apologize to the people he has harmed and to all the real victims of racism because he has diminished them," said four attorneys representing one of these white terrorist. "Also, those who were there with Mr. Booker and know the truth should also come out and tell the truth. Mr. Booker was the instigator and agitator. There was no problem until Mr. Booker returned for no legitimate reason. He was the aggressor and became threatening. Mr. Booker was first to throw punches. Mr. Booker was then restrained. Not beaten. Restrained. For his own safety and the safety of others. He then started race-baiting. Then stuck around after his alleged "near lynching" to video his attackers."

Booker said that the group wanted to "get a noose" and shouted "white power" although it wasn't heard in the video. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources which operates the park have said that no arrest were made at the time of the incident.

Booker said that his lawyers are in touch with the Monroe County prosecutor and Indiana State Police which made the arrest on the two.

Booker told the Indianapolis Star that a DNR law enforcement supervisor kept talking about the property owner's rights.

"This officer was clearly elevating property rights above my life," Booker said. "That's something we're seeing on a macro level throughout society where Black lives aren't as important as property."

Booker counts his blessings that strangers and his friends came to help him.

The U.S. Justice Department and Indiana Bureau of Investigation are looking at hate crime charges.

The FBI is also probing the two men and those with them.

Gov. Eric Holcomb condemned the attack and said that incidents like this give the state a negative perception that cannot be tolerated.

Bloomington mayor Greg Hamilton knows Booker and said that incident is a black eye on his city.

He said that the city has a lot a work to do.

Bloomington, Indiana.

"I don't know what would have happened in the woods of Lake Monroe if there hadn't been other individuals there and if there hadn't been a video taken," Hamilton said to Yahoo News. "It's incredibly important that we as a country, and then me and my community, that we make clear that has no place in our community, and we want to root it out."

The suspects could face up to 20 years in the iron college. If they have a federal sandwich they could get up to 40 years in federal time out.

The suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Bloomington is 52 miles from Indianapolis. The city's population is 93,000 residents. It is the home of Indiana University. It is part of the NAFTA corridor. Interstate 69 is being built through Indiana.

The highway travels Northeast to Southwest through Central Indiana. It will eventually connect to Kentucky. The highway's two phases include the Bloomington/Martindale to Indianapolis corridor and the Evansville/Henderson, Kentucky corridor which will include a toll bridge across the Ohio River. The highway will eventually connect from Canada to Mexico through eight states.