News 8 carried the news conference live on Facebook. One of Booker’s attorneys claimed in a news conference Monday that the narrative that one of the men pushed Booker first, then Booker punched him, is proof that Booker was acting in self-defense. The original investigation by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources did not call for charges to be filed against Booker or the two men he accused of attacking him. He faces up to 3½ years in prison and $15,000 in fines for being subjected to a racist assault,” said Guy Loftman, an attorney with the Monroe County Branch NAACP. “Now, it has taken the outrageous step of charging Booker, the victim, as a felon. Now more than a year later, a special prosecutor has charged Booker with battery and criminal trespassing in connection to the incident. Each face charges including criminal confinement, battery, and intimidation. Since then, the men Booker claims to have attacked him, Sean Purdy and Jerry Edward Cox, have been charged in the attack. Vauhxx Booker was charged Friday in Monroe Circuit Court 2 with battery and criminal trespassing.īooker claims to have been the victim of a hate crime near Lake Monroe. (WISH) - The man at the center of a July 4, 2020, attack near Lake Monroe on Monday called for his criminal charges to be dropped and the special prosecutor to step down.

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