Civil rights activist faces charges after reporting racist attack in Indiana

Vauhxx Booker condemns retaliation' after he reported that white men assaulted him and threatened to get a noose'

A Black civil rights activist who reported that a group of white men assaulted him and threatened to get a noose" at a southern Indiana lake is facing criminal charges more than a year after the confrontation that earlier led to charges against two of the alleged attackers.

Vauhxx Booker, a member of the Monroe county human rights commission, was charged with misdemeanor trespass and felony battery for his involvement in last year's Fourth of July incident at Lake Monroe, according to court documents filed last Friday by a special prosecutor in the case.