“It is unprecedented,” Liell said at the news conference on Monday. A Black activist who said a group of white men threatened to lynch him announced on Monday that he was actually charged with felony assault and misdemeanor trespassing in the incident, The Washington Post reported. “There’s nothing more American than charging a Black man in his own attempted lynching,” Vauhxx Booker told reporters on Monday outside of an Indiana courthouse.Īttorney Katharine Liell said at the same news conference that Monroe County Special Prosecutor Sonia Leerkamp filed the charges against Booker on Friday even though the actual incident happened on July 4, 2020, near Bloomington, Indiana.
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