is investigating a caught-on-camera confrontation as a possible hate ts of the vauhxx booker, who isck, said he was assaulted and threatened with a noose as he walked with friends last weekend. a word of warning, parts of the video are offensive. vauhxxericka duncan reports. >> let him go, dude, let him go. >> reporter: 36-year-old vauhxx booker says he feared for his life after a group of white men pinned him against a tree and assaulted him. it happened in bloomington, indiana, while he and his friends were planning to spend fourth of july at lake monroe. >> they say that they were going tt break my arms, as one of them literally had my arm twisted behind me. >> reporter: booker had said one >> booker had said one of the of the men threatened to kill him. >> one of them said get a noose, not get a rope, but literally "get a noose." >> reporter: bystanders video taped the incident. once booker was let go, his attackers hurled more racial insults at him. >> what do you really want it call me? >> you nappy headed. >> reporter: there was a moment sayingu wasa it, so say it. >> you coul

amy: vauhxx booker, thank you for being with us. we will continue to follolow upn your case. xx b booker, human rights commissioner for monroe county inin indiana. also chairs the affordable housing commission. describing to u in a a attempted lynching. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "come meh way" by sudan archives. thisis is democracy now!,, democrcracynow.org, the e quarae report. i'm amy goodman. nearly two months after the police killing of george floyd in minneapolis sparked an international uprising, black lives matter protests continue putting pressure in the streets, city halls and their communities with demands to defund the police and address systemic racism. we look at an under-reported but critical part of the fight against police brutality -- the devastating impact police violence has on people with disabilities, especially black disabled people. no u.s. federal agency officially tracks the number of disabled americans who are killed by the police. but according to at least one study, up to one half of people killed by law enforcement in the u.s. have a disab

the men, sean purdy and jerry edward cox ii, were part of a group of five white men who pinned vauhxx booker to a tree, beat him, and threatened to lynch him. booker was able to escape their clutches after passersby intervened. booker revealed last week he tested positive for covid-19. his lawyer said his attackers spat on him and yelled in his face. you can see our interview with vauhxx booker, human rights commissioner for monroe county, at democracynow.org. the pentagon has effectively banned the confederate flag on u.s. military bases. a memo issued by defense secretary mark esper friday does not mention confederate flags directly, but calls on the military to reject divisive symbols and lists the flags that are authorized. the memo did not address changing names of bases honoring confederate leaders. trump has threatened to veto the national defense authorization act if it removes confederate names from bases. on sunday, trump mocked the push to rename fort bragg saying "we are going to name it after the rev. al sharpton?" trump likened support for black lives matter to support for the

disagreement over crossing private property and the men are heard shouting racial slurs as they pin vauhxx booker against a tree. booker says he was scared for his life. >> i just see so many images pass through my mind of george floyd, of the countless black people we've seen be killed in horrible ways, and i think to myself, am i going to be them? >> protesters on tuesday demanded those men face charges. the fbi has now opened a hate crimes investigation as the county prosecutor says she's waiting for investigators to turn the case in for review. >>> a statue of andrew jackson will be removed from a city that was named after him. jackson, mississippi's city council voted to relocate it from city hall citing the former president's history as a slave owner and his brutality against native americans. >>> time now for a look at your weather for this wednesday morning. >>> at leastwo fires near simi valley, california, kept fire crews busy. that was for hours tuesday. the flames forced the closure of some lanes of a freeway through that area. hot, dry conditions continue across the west today. there

disturbing video posted on social media showing a group of white men attacking a black man, 36-year-old vauhxx booker. the men hurling racist slurs and pinning booker against a tree. >> one of the gentlemen yells to his friend to get a noose. i thought these individuals were literally ungoing to lynch me. >> reporter: the ordeal unfolding july 4th at lake monroe, near bloomington, indiana. booker says he and his friend, who's white, were headed to meet a group and watch the lunar eclipse from the public beach, when he says, the men accused him of trespassing on private property. booker says even though he tried to calmly talk to them, and had started to walk away, he was assaulted. >> i'm struggling to breathe, i can feel the weight of these gentlemen on top of me. >> reporter: booker says what saved him was that his friends and bystanders refused to leave. tonight, we've learned the fbi is opening a hate crime investigation. >> let him go, dude. >> i just see so many images packed through my mind of george floyd, of the countless black people we've seen killed in horrible ways, and i think to myself

vauhxx booker said a group of white men attacked him july 4th, and threatened to "get a noose." his attorney spoke to reporters this afternoon. >> i can confirm that an official investigation has been opened up by the f.b.i. i believe it has been approved of the united states' attorney's ce, and they are investigating this as a hate crime. woodruff: authorities are still searching for the driver of the car that struck the two people at yesterday's protest. e f.i. sounded the ala today about the growing number st threats emerging from china. its director, chher wray, highlighted several areas of clcreased beijing gression, ing targeting u.s. military technology and economic a ercion. he tolshington think tank that the increase in chinese cases at ter bureau is cong. >> we'veow reached a pb.nt where the is opening a new china-related counter- erintelligence case about ten hours. of the nearly 5,000 active f.b.i. counter-intelligence y,ses currently underway across the counlmost half are related to china. >> woodruff: wray also urged chinese-born people living in the u.s. to contac

lake monroe in bloomington, indiana heard hurling racial slurs and allegedly hitting 36-year-old vauhxx booker to lynch him. >> the emotions i felt that day were like nothing i had before. i read accounts of lynching and the terror that came with it because it is truly about terrorism. >> reporter: the video seen millions of times prompting protests as demonstrators called for the men involved to be charged. prosecutors charging sean purdy with criminal confinement, battery resulting in moderate bodily injury, and intimidation and jerry edward cox ii facing those same charges plus two more charges of battery. purdy's attorney says booker was not the victim but rather the instigator. >> mr. booker, we'd like him to come forward and the people with him to tell the truth about punching mr. purdy three times, apologize to these people and apologize to the real victims of racial injustice. >> reporter: booker says the incident began when he was heading to meet friends but was confronted by the group of men telling him he was on private property, saying he tried to walk away but they attacked him. b

viral video showing the men using racist slurs and pinning 36-year-old vauhxx booker to a tree on theuly. booker said he and his friends were accused of trespassing on private property on their way to a beach. bystanders and friends demanding he be released. local authorities are gathering evidence in this case. >>> breaking overnight, mary kay letourneau. you remember her, the seattle teacher who was convicted of raping her 12-year-old student and later marrying him. letourneau gave birth to their child before serving a seven-year sentence for statutory rape. they later had a second child and married in 2005. they divorced last year. letourneau died of cancer. she was 58 years old. >> we all remember this story. happened in the mid-'90s. i feel what i remember most about this is not only this woman sexually assaulted and raped a 12-year-old boy, but this is the moment when people realized the gender reversal here. when you have a woman and it was a young boy, versus the other way around. because the other way around, it was automatically, it's disgusting, it's horrible, it's everythi

disturbing viral videos appear to show a group of white men pinning a black man, 36-year-old-year-old vauhxx booker> let him go. >> reporter: the men hurling racist slurs at booker. he says they even threatened to lynch him. >> one of the individual yells to a friend to get a noose, not a rope but literally get a noose. >> reporter: the incident unfolding july 4th at lake monroe in bloomington where booker says he was headed to meet a group of friends to watch the lunar eclipse from a public beach. the men told him he was on private property. booker says he tried to calmly smooth things over with them and had actually started to walk away when he was attacked. >> i'm struggling to breathe. i can feel the weight of these gentlemen on top of me. a woman who is in the crowd yells, not to kill me. i realize she's literally talking about me, not to kill me, and i'm in a state of shock. >> reporter: booker's friend, brennan golightly, stepping in to intervene and recording the altercation on his phone, demanding the men release him. >> they had hatred, anger in their eyes. i believe they were -- if we ha

reporter: a relaxing evening with friends turned violent after five white men allegedly attacked vauhxx bookerainst a tree. >> let him go. >> we're going to as soon as you let him go. >> reporter: booker said the men dragged him, beat him and threatened to break his arms. >> asking for a noose. they literally said the term noose. they yelled leave. leave the boy with us. i wasn't even a man. i was a boy. >> no one invaded you. >> you stupid liberal -- >> reporter: the confrontation began when the men accused him and his friends of trespassing. the men allegedly started yelling white power among other racial slurs. >> what are you going to call me? >> reporter: mayor john hamilton said he was horrified by the attack and acknowledged racism still exists in his community. >> these are really painful times. it's a painful episode. >> reporter: on monday, hundreds of protesters gathered around the monroe county courthouse to demand justice for booker. but the peaceful demonstration ended in chaos. after a car rammed into two people. one woman was taken to the hospital. no charges have been filed ye

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