Bloomington: Victim of attempted lynching charged with assaulting his attackers
By ArLuther Lee, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for BloomingtonNewsAndTalk.Com A Black man who was the victim of an “attempted lynching” near Bloomington, Indiana, last summer has been charged with felony assault and misdemeanor trespassing in connection with the incident. Vauhxx Booker and his lawyer held a news conference outside an Indiana courtroom Monday after Sonia Leerkamp, the special prosecutor for Monroe County, filed charges against the local rights activist last Friday. “There’s nothing more American than charging a Black man in his own attempted lynching,” Booker said Monday, according to The Washington Post. “It is unprecedented,” added attorney Katharine Liell,…