Sean Purdy and Jerry Cox are facing battery, confinement and intimidation charges for their alleged roles in an attack on Vauhxx Rush Booker at Lake Monroe.
The FBI is investigating a now-viral video that showed a group of white men attack a 36-year-old black man, Vauhxx Booker, and they allegedly threatened to “get a noose.”Indiana prosecutors on Friday charged two white men who were filmed allegedly assaulting a Black man on July 4.
Booker, 36, an activist and member of the Monroe County Human Rights Commission, and other witnesses filmed the encounter in which Purdy, Cox and other men were seen pinning Booker to a tree and pulling his arm. Booker said he heard the men say they were going to get a noose and that they shouted racial slurs.
A still from a video shows an altercation involving Vauhxx Rush Booker that took place in Indiana on July 4, 2020. Booker revealed on Friday that he tested positive for COVID-19 that morning and is currently under home quarantine. He said he took the test on Wednesday after his doctor advised him to do. Booker's attorney, Katherine Liell, said she reached out to Purdy's attorney to inform him of her client's positive test.as he was walking with a friend to a Fourth of July event at the lake, blocking his path to the beach.
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