The people behind the violence in the American protests of George Floyd.

UncleBuck said:

Saw him up on the roof doing step flashing last week

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srh88 said:

This explains the flannels and beard.

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UncleBuck said:

Hes just a regular guy like us but with a massive coke addiction and his wife and girlfriend keep banging secret service agents

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More than a year has passed since Vauhxx Booker said a group of White men pinned him to a tree and threatened to “get a noose.” On Monday, he stood outside an Indiana courthouse to address what his lawyers called a startling development — Booker, who is Black, is now facing his own charges in connection to the incident.

“There’s nothing more American than charging a Black man in his own attempted lynching,” Booker said at the news conference.

The incident, which occurred on July 4, 2020, near Bloomington, Ind., resulted in two of the men receiving felony charges. On Friday, Sonia Leerkamp, the special prosecutor for Monroe County, filed charges of felony assault and misdemeanor trespassing against Booker for the same incident.

Booker’s lawyers said Leerkamp filed the charges despite having presented no new evidence since July 2020.

“It is unprecedented,” attorney Katharine Liell said at the news conference on Monday. “I’ve been practicing well over 30 years in this state and … I have never seen a special prosecutor open a new case and file charges a year later.”

Black activist says he was victim of ‘attempted lynching’ by white group in incident partially caught on video

Booker said he and his attorneys believe Leerkamp is retaliating over his refusal to engage in a mediated resolution with the two men arrested in his assault. Booker said Monday he declined to do so because he would have to sign a confidentiality agreement and publicly forgive the men, whose charges would be dropped.

“For the entire year, the special prosecutor has pressured and bullied me at every turn that if I didn’t engage with the restorative justice, if I didn’t let charges be dismissed, that she would charge me,” Booker said. “It wasn’t out of any new evidence or any shocking revelations. It was simply that, once again, a Black person telling a White person no — and they were going to punish me.”

In a statement to The Washington Post, Leerkamp noted that Booker is presumed innocent of the charges unless proven guilty.

“That being said, unlike Mr. Booker, I am ethically restrained from commenting upon the evidence prior to its presentation at trial,” Leerkamp said. “I am doing my best to apply the law to the facts available to me and to follow the principle that we are a nation of laws, not men.”

Booker, a local activist and a member of the Monroe County Human Rights Commission, which advocates for residents’ civil rights, made national headlines last summer after his Facebook post and videos recounting the July 4 incident went viral.

Booker said he and a friend were making their way to Lake Monroe, a reservoir about 10 miles southeast of Bloomington, to meet up with a group to watch the lunar eclipse in a park. Along the way, they encountered a White man wearing an oversized Confederate hat, who Booker said began following them in an ATV. The man then stopped Booker and his friend and said they were walking on private property.

Booker and his friend apologized and explained that the event organizer said they had permission from the landowners to walk through the property.

Soon after, Booker said he and other members of the group attempted to “smooth over” the dispute since more attendees would probably be walking on the property.

But the discussion “quickly became aggressive,” Booker wrote on Facebook. As he walked away, some of the men started following them, he said, yelling obscene remarks. Then, “two of them jumped me from behind and knocked me to the ground,” Booker wrote in the post.

He claims they dragged him, pinned his body against a tree, pounded on his head and ripped out some of his hair. Video from the incident shows Booker on all fours, wedged between the tree and one of the men.

Booker said he heard one of the men yell, “We’re going to break his arms.” Another, he said, shouted, “Get a noose!”

More people arrived on the scene, some of whom recorded parts of the altercation. One person can be heard in a video begging the group to “please let him go,” referring to Booker.

After they released Booker, one of the men is seen in a video clip yelling at him, calling him a “nappy-headed b----." The man continued, “You happy about this? You happy with your five White friends?”

During the news conference on Monday, Guy Loftman of the NAACP’s Monroe County Branch said one of the alleged attackers, Sean Purdy, later told the Indiana Department of Natural Resources that he pushed Booker, who then punched him.

Although Booker disputes those claims, Loftman said Purdy’s statement proves that if Booker had punched him, he was acting in self-defense.

Purdy and Jerry Cox II were charged on July 17, 2020, with three felonies, including criminal confinement, battery and intimidation. Later that month, the state prosecutor recused herself from the case for unknown reasons, and Leerkamp took over.

Booker said upon meeting with Leerkamp, “Before she even had read the case file … she was adamant that I needed to take responsibility.” Booker refused, and for a year, he resisted mediation.

“I don’t care if she drags me back to the hanging tree,” Booker said. “I am not going to back down from this. I am not going to just let these folks go on about their lives like they didn’t victimize me. like their crime didn’t impact an entire community. I’m going to stand up for myself.”

In a statement, the NAACP branch said the charges against Booker are racially motivated.

“But for Booker being Black, no one would have suggested that he was the criminal,” said the statement, which Loftman read at the news conference. “This is systemic racism in action. … If the Black man won’t go along with letting them off the hook, he will be punished.”

Loftman added: “Blaming the Black victim has gone on too long. Let it stop in Vauhxx Booker’s case.”

Booker said at the news conference that dealing with the case over the past year “has been humiliating and defeating.”

“For some folks it was a year ago, for me it’s happened every day,” he said.

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Hundreds of far-left and far-right demonstrators clashed in Portland, Ore., on Sunday afternoon, firing paintballs, spraying chemicals and destroying property.

Police haven’t reported any deaths or injuries. But footage from the two areas where the demonstrations had occurred showed gunshots being fired, people being shoved to the ground, and some protesters breaking the windows of parked vehicles. Images showed at least one person surrendering to law enforcement officials where the shots had been fired. Dennis G. Anderson, 65, was charged with unlawful use and possession of a firearm shortly after the shooting, police said.

The clashes came on the anniversary of similar competing protests a year ago, after the murder of George Floyd. In that incident, a far-right protester was shot and killed after demonstrators and counterprotesters clashed. An anti-fascist activist suspected of the shooting was later killed in a confrontation with police.

Sunday’s violence occurred in two parts of the city, according to the Portland Police Bureau and local news reports.



At 2:30 p.m., hundreds had gathered near a water splash pad in Tom McCall Waterfront Park in downtown Portland, according to police. They were left-wing protesters, some of whom identified as antifa, or anti-fascists. They had gathered to express opposition to a right-wing rally attended by, among others, members of Proud Boys that was scheduled in Portland that same day, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported. Later in the afternoon, video footage posted online shows at least two individuals firing shots at each other in front of a pizza place nearby.

The far-right event was occurring at a parking lot about five miles northeast of the waterfront park. Video footage from the parking lot show participants wearing apparel expressing support for former president Donald Trump or hatred toward the political left.



About 4 p.m., demonstrators were violently confronting each other at the parking lot, according to video footage and law enforcement.

Just before the violence starts, one right-wing protester can be heard taunting another group of protesters: “Antifa, come on. Let’s play, let’s play,” the protester is recorded as saying, while another right-wing protester urges restraint to his colleagues, before saying: “The second they start attacking, we will unleash on them.”

About 30 minutes later the scene erupts, with protesters shooting paintballs at each other, destroying a white van, detonating what appear to be small gas grenades and spraying chemicals at each other. Footage doesn’t show uniformed law enforcement officials.



The city had been expecting the protests in the recent days but declined to actively intervene, citing among its reasons a lack of resources. The Portland police didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment, but Police Chief Chuck Lovell in the past has said responding to every protest would put strains on his force’s ability to respond to other emergencies.

Police haven’t ruled out arrests linked to Sunday’s violence, though.

“As in past such events, we … will make arrests when probable cause exists that specific persons committed crimes. Just because arrests are not made at the scene … does not mean that people are not being charged with crimes later,” the police said in a statement.

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mooray said:

I agree with it, just because a person is an absolute idiot to go to one of those things. The best thing you could do is have a couple dozen rednecks standing around holding their dicks totally deflated with nothing to do, but you go and "oppose" them because the shit you see in the article is what it's really about. Both of those groups are getting exactly what then want; to fight like idiots in the street. It has nothing to do with protesting. It's just a vortex of misery hoping to escalate violence by pulling in more and more people until there's an all out war. They love these clashes because it's media fuel to pull you into their "cause", which is really just more violence.

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hanimmal said:

Agree with you, but not sure if you mean calling it 'far left' by 'it'. That is really the only thing I am calling bullshit on in the article.

Wanting to punch nazi's is not (at least shouldn't be) a 'left' platform. Democrats are not out there amplifying 'ANTIFA', it is a purely right wing bullshit issue that is trying to drag in 'the left' so they can 'both sides' this to their supporters as they scare them with their propaganda form these stupid LARP fights.

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xtsho said:

At least those yahoos didn't make a mess of downtown. The PB's went to the old Kmart parking lot on 122nd. Then the others showed up. The cops flat out said they were not going to get in the middle of it. I think the police did the right thing. If they want to have a brawl let them do it in some deserted parking lot. That old Kmart is a perfect place for these idiots to kick each others asses. Maybe put up some bleachers and let people come watch the show.

Looks like the PB's got caught off guard. They need to realize that nobody's afraid of them and nobody wants them in Portland. They need to stay across the river in Longview.

Looks like they met some resistance. Ha ha ha ha ha!

Poor Tiny looks like he's going to cry. What's wrong tough guy?

I can't see! I can't see!

Is this a PB taking a knee?

Get out and stay out

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CatHedral said:

It is a big downer for me to see Reuters use the term. I generally consider them and AP to be the gold standard for objective journalism. This nation has no significant far left, by which I mean the means-of-production segment.

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xtsho said:

At least those yahoos didn't make a mess of downtown.

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CatHedral said:

What's with poor tiny? That looks like it belongs in Marijuana Plant Problems.

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hanimmal said:

Powdery mildew on a bitch.

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