@davenewworld_2 1/ Civil rights activist[Vauhxx Booker @Vauhxx] faces charges[charged in his own #hate crime] after reporting racist attack in Indiana. Read more bit.ly/3lH7TvW by @AP via @GuardianUS [end #racism end #hate]
2/ Vauhxx Booker condemns ‘retaliation’ [charged in his own #hate crime]after he reported that white men assaulted him and threatened to ‘get a noose’.Read more bit.ly/3lH7TvW by @AP via @GuardianUS [end #racism end #hate]
3/ Booker[Vauhxx Booker @Vauhxx] condemned the decision[charged in his own #hate crime], calling it an “outrageous act of punitive retaliation and prosecutorial vindictiveness”. Read more bit.ly/3lH7TvW by @AP via @GuardianUS [end #racism end #hate]
4/ The Monroe[IN] county branch of the NAACP[@NAACP] demanded that the charges[charged in his own #hate crime] against Booker[Vauhxx Booker @Vauhxx] be dropped immediately... Read more bit.ly/3lH7TvW by @AP via @GuardianUS [end #racism end #hate]
5/ [@NAACP Monroe[IN] county branch]demanded that the charges[charged in his own #hate crime] against Booker[Vauhxx Booker @Vauhxx] be dropped immediately and called for the special prosecutor, Sonia Leerkamp, to resign. Read more bit.ly/3lH7TvW[end #racism end #hate]
6/ “This incident[charged in his own #hate crime] has been a continual case of a victim being re-victimized by the system,” Booker’s[Vauhxx Booker @Vauhxx] legal team said in statement on Monday. Read more bit.ly/3lH7TvW by @AP via @GuardianUS
[end #racism end #hate]
7/ “It is the victim[charged in his own #hate crime]in this assault– Vauhxx Booker[@Vauhxx]–who is being made to pay for having stood his ground against malicious racist name-calling, physicalAssault,& threatsAgainst hisLife.”bit.ly/3lH7TvW [end #racism end #hate]

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