Black Indiana Man Feared Lynching By White Mob During 4th Of July Attack

A Black man from Indiana says he feared for his life during a heated encounter with a group white men captured in a viral video from this Fourth July weekend. 

Vauhxx Rush Booker shared the video (see below) on Facebook and recounted the story. He explained that on Saturday while walking with a friend, he was confronted by an inebriated man wearing a Confederate flag hat who told them they were on private property. Booker and a friend had taken a path on private property they were unaware they didn’t have permission to cross. As he and his friend were leaving, according to Booker, they encountered several more angry white men and the men then attacked them from behind. 

“The five were able to easily overwhelm me and got me to the ground and dragged me pinning my body against a tree as they began pounding on my head and ripped f some my hair, with several them still on top my body holding me down,” Booker wrote in the post. He even alleged one the perpetrators jumped on his neck. The men can also be heard shouting racist comments at someone behind the camera, referring to them as a “nappy-head b****.”

Numerous passersby who heard the commotion tried to help as the alleged attackers pinned Booker against a tree and told them, “we’re going to break his arms,” while instructing their pals to “get a noose,” Booker wrote. The Indiana Department Natural Resources responded to the scene according to Booker, but they “refused to arrest any these individuals.”

Booker, who is traumatized by the incident, shared his story out concern for the safety other Black people should they cross the path’s the perpetrators again. “I don’t want to recount this, but I was almost the victim an attempted lynching,” Booker wrote on Facebook. “I don’t want this to have happened to me or anyone.”