'There's nothing more American than charging a Black man in his own attempted lynching,' Vauhxx Booker said of the incident in Indiana.
and then was himself charged in connection to the incident is calling for the special prosecutor on the case to resign.
Purdy told state investigators at the time that the dispute began after he told Booker and his friend that they were on private property. He claimed that Booker had punched him during their dispute. "I'm not going to back down from this. I'm not going to just let these folks go on about their life like they didn't victimize me," he said. "I'm going to stand up for myself.""Once again, there's nothing more American than charging a Black man in his own attempted lynching," Booker told reporters. "I wasn't surprised because, for the entire year the special prosecutor has pressured and bullied me at every turn that if I didn't ...
An attorney for Purdy declined to comment on Booker's charges and an attorney for Cox could not immediately be reached. Booker said he and his friend apologized and told the man that they thought it was OK for them to walk through the property to get to the public park. In his post, Booker said that he and several others from their group tried to "smooth over" what had turned into a dispute because more people were expected to arrive and were going to be walking through the property.
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