Black Man Says Group Assaulted Him, Said 'Get a Noose' — and 2 People Hit with Car at Protest



"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 off some of my hair, with several of them still on top of my body holding me down," he wrote.

"The attackers told the growing group, 'we’re going to break his arms' (while literally attempting to bend my arms behind me) and then stated to the members of their party several times to, 'get a noose,' amongst some other choice slurs," he wrote. "With me still pinned underneath them they kept telling onlookers to leave the 'boy' and that everyone else (all white) could go. Folks then started filming the confrontation, and shouting that they wouldn’t leave me to be killed."

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In a video clip posted by Booker, a member of the group surrounding him says repeatedly to the others, "Let him go."

In another of three video clips posted by Booker, a different man screams, “You nappy-headed b—-, you happy about this? You happy with your five white friends?"

When DNR responded to the 911 call to investigate, "multiple individuals who didn’t know each other shared videos and relayed that the individuals had yelled 'white power' and a litany of other derogatory remarks, and threatened my life multiple times," Booker wrote.

At the protest Monday, Booker thanked those who intervened, affirming that "Black lives matter," he said.

“I’m here alive today because folks stopped being bystanders," he said. "They didn’t just film me."

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