A Black man who said 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. Monroe County prosecutors only charged two White men, however. Sean Purdy faces charges of felony criminal confinement, battery resulting in moderate bodily injury and intimidation. Both maintain that Booker threatened them first, and their lawyers have said the two men are victims of a "smear campaign." The charges against Booker, filed in Monroe Circuit Court by special prosecutor Sonia Leerkamp, are the same recommended by IDNR investigators last summer.

Source: Fox News August 02, 2021 17:48 UTC