Investigation Ongoing After Alleged ‘Attempted Lynching’

Law enforcement is investigating and conducting interviews after a Bloomington man was allegedly assaulted and, he said, almost lynched by a group of white people on July 4th.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1319061

This happened in Indiana? I’m shocked…

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The Confederacy’s middle finger stuck deep into the Union…

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It’s Indiana,Jake. Home of the KKK.

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The following things should never be combined: Hoosiers, white men, beer, confederate flags, ATVs, and sideboob. It’s just asking for trouble.

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Copperheads live.

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Investigation after how long? Three Days?
Let me know when the arrests are made.

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Within a few months of #45’s inauguration it became clear that the greater peril to the nation would be what he made permissible, more than what he himself did.

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I think the side boobs in that pic are actually moobs.

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I don’t understand - didn’t Chief Justice Roberts say there was no more racism in America…:thinking:

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“Attempted Lynching Caught On Film In Indiana.”

West Virginia (wiping tear from eye): “I think I’m in love.”

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Now that its gone viral they will make arrests and act as if they had always planned to do it.

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One wonders how much emotional energy these people expend on their irrational hatred. They would suffocate if it were not for autonomic reflexes.

Too. Stupid. To breathe

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It was in Indiana, NOT America. :wink:

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“Look, you had some very fine people on BOTH sides of that attempted lynching.”

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Baghdad Barbie - “You’re just focusing on one word at the bottom. Of a tree.”

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And that was the rub about the Second Reconstruction.

It achieved compliance…which made possible some among-equals interaction between people of different races and ethnicities. And it worked spectacularly (when juxtaposed with 100 years of Jim Crow).

But some resisted and settled for a grudging compliance.

Trump unlocked that door.

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And who says they can’t celebrate the 4th the way their grandparents did!
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Oh right, my bad.

Keep in mind, this took place in Bloomington, home of the state flagship university and a very blue oasis in a very red state. And that makes all of this hurt even more.

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