The attorney for Vauhxx Booker, the Indiana civil rights activist who was allegedly assaulted near a lake outside of Bloomington on July 4, said Monday that “it is time for arrests” in the case that Booker has called an “attempted lynching.”
I am not sure this is a story yet. It sounds like there are two sides and we have to wait on the investigation to be complete.
“He claimed that Booker ‘baited’ some members of the group into saying racist things…”
Uh huh.
Baited totally-not-racists into calling him a…(checks notes)…”nappy-headed bitch” on camera.
Maybe somebody could explain how that works.
(I’ll wait.)
That:
we have to wait on the investigation to be complete
is a phrase that has lurked behind every killing of unarmed black men and women; every police assault; every imaginable violation of person-hood of black bodies for eons…Such a problematic choice of words there.
I would suspect it was related to how he was dressed. That’s how you bait “good boys” into rape so probably similar here.
Must be working on Indiana “slow” time…
How is one “baited” into making racist statements? Is it similar to the gay panic defense?
so I watched the whole video, and its glaringly obvious who the agressors were – the fat, shirtless, racist white guys. Even the stuff that the racists’ attorneys provided shows them acting like assholes – the fact that the one woman had a short, non-confrontational conversation doesn’t mitigate the rest of what happened.
This is what criminal defense of a white racist looks like in an area where you’re almost guaranteed to have at least one white racist on the jury.
Besides, everyone knows that the way a black man “baits” a white supremacist into yelling racist shit is by getting “uppity”.
It’s the “he had it coming” defense to an accusation of racism.
Step 1. Find a racist.
All you need to know about the justice system in the Southern part of Indiana:
“We have 10% black and brown folk in the southern district of Indiana. In 2019, he brought 67% of gun cases and 73% of drug cases against black and brown citizens. Sickening.
Geeze Rush way to promote love thy neighbor and heal the sick, feed the hungry -you know Christian values and the Golden Rule. Apparently, we are all the Donner Party.
Cannibal we all just get along?
This is the perfect illustration as to why we don’t try and convict people, based on a social media post. How about we settle this matter in a court of law? Is that asking too much? I’m not biased against one side or the other, just saying that we are a nation of laws, not men.
Step 2. Start reminiscing about how Sherman’s March to the Sea led to the get together at Appomattox Courthouse.
Did she say that was her dog? It sure seemed eager to take off with the other group, can’t imagine why.
DARVO…the local Trumpian white supremacists have studied hard and learned the lesson well.
DARVO + throw up a bunch of chaff + well-dressed(?) white people photo ops + drag things out in court. Don’t see how a heavily white majority southern IN jury would convict under those circumstances.
Also wouldn’t be surprised if there was a back channel between the DNR and the alleged assaulters’ legal team, getting their stories in as much alignment as possible.
I’d be happy to be proven wrong, however.
