Monroe County Prosecutor Erika Oliphant on Friday announced charges against two of the men involved in the alleged assault and attempted lynching of Vauhxx Booker outside of Bloomington, Indiana on July 4.
I’ve watched the videos a few times and I can’t see the physical assault. I never saw Booker’s face in them.
Again today, so proud to be a Hoosier. Dan Quayle, Mitch Daniels, Mike Pence and a host of redneck racists.
A black person in the woods?! Oh, c’mon, who the hell wouldn’t freak out and overreact? It would be like finding a badger in your clothes dryer!
You may be surprised by how much static cling a single badger can prevent.
Married badgers even moreso!
Finally, finally. This took about 2 weeks and the excuse that alcohol and the devil made me do it didn’t hold water (or alcohol).
Just reminder to Maggot-Brain-MAGAs:
Trump is NOT a lynching victim even if he compared his impeachment to lynching!
This is just wild. Wild that it happened (ok, not so wild, this kind of S**t happens a lot more than white people would like to think), and even wilder that charges are being brought.
Absent video, and it being wide spead, this would never have even been a story.
When history looks back the US’s racial awakening, the key and common factor is going to be cel phone video evidence. Absent the cel phone video, none of this would have been happening.
Trump may want to go back to the 1950s (or at times he wants to go back to the 1850s) but his and his ugly followers are not being covered in newspapers, where lies can hide what happened, they are being caught on video.
I couldn’t help thinking of good ole Lenny Briscoe’s tough talk interview style while I read through that investigation report. Those fucking hillbilly troglodytes were so clearly coached by their attorney and lying their asses off. When I got to the part where they refused to speak to officers at the scene or were suddenly claiming things like getting punched in the face by Booker, which they hadn’t mentioned at the scene, but were only now saying days later at an interview…just so obvious they were lying.
We’d be glad to demonstrate to you, Mr. Trump, the stark differences between a lawful impeachment process, and an unlawful lynching of a president.
Your cooperation would be required, of course…
Yup.
I’ve been involved in helping deploy the Internet since the late '80s, and have had a twinge of guilt/concern/trepidation about what it can and has done to our privacy and civic discourse almost from the beginning. I’m actually very happy to see this “rebalancing” that cell phone cameras have enabled over the past few years. Far too many people still treat their privacy as a given, but we do at last see a shift in the level of accountability and in the Age of Trump, that gives me some hope for what’s coming over the next few months.
Take heart: Your state also produced Eugene Debs, Madame C.J. Walker, James Whitcomb Riley, Kurt Vonnegut, Ernie Pyle, Rex Stout, Jean Shepard, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, Gus Grissom, Bryan Lamb, Joseph Stiglitz, Twyla Tharp, Sydney Pollack, The Jacksons, James Dean, Phil Harris, Carole Lombard, Strother Martin, Steve McQueen, David Letterman, John Mellencamp, Red Skelton, Oscar Robertson, Johnny Wooden, Birch Bayh, Pete Buttigieg – and even little Ryan White.
You don’t get “the good” without paying the price of “the bad and the ugly”, no matter where you live.
My godson lives, works and goes to school in South Bend. I told him jokingly on July 3rd “Don’t let your White friends take you anyplace on the fringes of civilization for July 4th celebrations, because you might not like the fireworks that get lit after a few drinks.” He sent me this news story on July 5th with a note saying “I so hate it when you are right.”
Q-Tip still constitutes a bigly amount of the “bad and the ugly”.
While I think the two park rangers on the scene probably acted appropriately given the situation (much alcohol, twilight, no backup on holiday weekend, aggressors and aggrieved parties already separated, conflicting stories), the DNR report was a cowardly display of wishy washy stenography. Kudos to the county DA who is not going along with the whitewash.
We don’t want to lynch you, Fat Ass. Guillotines are much cooler.
You mean they didn’t arrest the back guy? Well I guess Indiana has made a slight improvement since Micro Penis left to become VP.
I wonder if that Sean Purdy dude is related to this guy:
This is good…I was worried about the DNR report and how much sway it would have, since it added charges against Booker, but it was obvious reading through it that the rednecks (I’m gonna call them that) were not being honest, either through drunkeness or because they were trying to lie their way out of what happened. The video made it clear they were the aggressors, and the way they followed and kept going after the group doesn’t make sense if they really were attacked by Booker. Fortunately, it looks like the DA saw through their stories and charged appropriately.
We really need more of this, and it shouldn’t take cellphone video spread nationwide to make it happen. For every case like this, there are probably hundreds where the police or DA ignore the non-white people and don’t follow through on a case. Reforming the police has to include treating all victims equally, and we all know that’s not how the system works today.
And my mother, born in Beech Grove in 1919!
When she was once asked if she would ever move back, she replied, “Are you kidding? With all the good restaurants in Chicago?!”