FBI opens investigation into alleged attempted lynching of black man in Indiana

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Vauhxx Booker, a Bloomington civil rights activist and local official, detailed the Fourth of July attack on Facebook, supported with video taken by the bystanders who were able to separate him from five men who were pinning him down.

Protests broke out Monday after local officials declined to immediately press charges, during which a car rammed into the group and drove away with a woman hanging on the hood.

Booker’s attorney told a reporter that the FBI had opened an investigation into his alleged attack, as a possible hate crime.

“I was attacked by five white men (with confederate flags) who literally threatened to lynch me in front of numerous witnesses,” Booker wrote in his Facebook account. “At one point during the attack one of the men jumped on my neck. I could feel both his feet and his full body weight land hard against my neck.”

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