# Why haven't Vauhxx Booker's assailants been arrested yet? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 10, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959 "2020-07-10T17:42:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959/1 "2020-07-10T17:42:25Z")
It’s been days now. Vehicles are visible in the video; names are used. Why has no one been arrested? I can’t find a complete video but a lot of it is [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0ZDIJpg5jU). Why haven’t these people been arrested? ---
**Author:** ![Human\_Action](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@Human\_Action](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Human_Action)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959/2 "2020-07-10T17:50:00Z")
Per this source, as of Monday the prosecutor is waiting for all the material from the Indiana DNR. “I met with Indiana Conservation Officers this morning (Monday, July 6) regarding this case,” [the prosecutor] said, according to [Indiana Public Media](https://indianapublicmedia.org/news/dnr-investigating-after-black-man-reports-racist-assault-at-lake-monroe.php) in a Monday report. “They are actively and thoroughly investigating the events that took place on Saturday. Once my office has received the completed investigation and all associated media, we will review those materials and make charging decisions.” > **[Vauhxx Rush Booker Claims He Was Almost Lynched | Law & Crime](https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/black-man-says-he-suffered-concussion-was-almost-lynched-by-group-of-white-attackers-video/)** > > "I don’t want to recount this, but I was almost the victim of an attempted lynching," he said in a statement posted Sunday to Facebook. "I don’t want this to have happened to me or anyone. It hurts my soul, and my pride, but there are multiple... ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959/3 "2020-07-10T18:38:40Z")
'Cause _All Lives Matter_. No, really, we mean it this time. Trust us, it’s not going to be like it was before. We’ll get help, therapy, whatever it takes. CMC ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959/4 "2020-07-10T19:54:22Z")
Those guys are total white power shitheads who should be arrested for hate-crime assault. What happened to the ass in the red car who drove through the Booker protest? That’s an easy arrest. They got the plate on film. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959/5 "2020-07-10T20:12:53Z")
[They got her.](https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-arrest-woman-allegedly-drove-protesters-indiana-hit/story?id=71692608) > [@](#): > > Christi Bennett was arrested late Wednesday and charged with two counts of criminal recklessness, a felony. She was also charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in serious bodily injury, a felony, and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in bodily injury, a misdemeanor. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959/6 "2020-07-10T20:18:06Z")
Do they not know who these people are, somehow? For six days, violent and dangerous people are being allowed to roam free. What the fuck? ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959/7 "2020-07-10T20:24:20Z")
Yeah, how hard could it be? We can even see their tats. Police could just search for “white power groups Indiana”… ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959/8 "2020-07-10T20:42:27Z")
Collecting all the available evidence before charging them ensures that the prosecutor knows fully how much s/he can charge them with and win. It’s not like they’re a flight risk. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959/9 "2020-07-10T21:00:50Z")
They are a danger to the community. There’s no need for “all the available evidence” to effect an arrest. Besides, what are they doing? Collecting every acorn from the forest to test it? Trying to match the leaves in the video to the leaves they find on the scene? 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959/10 "2020-07-10T21:27:46Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > They are a danger to the community. There’s no need for “all the available evidence” to effect an arrest. You can only hold someone for a certain number of days/hours without charging them. You want to make sure what you charge them with is the most you can justify with the evidence. You need to be reasonably certain that evidence will hold up - premeditation, 1st degree, 2nd degree, etc. Sadly, I was once on a jury where we had to let a guilty man off because the charge was slapped on before the evidence was looked at carefully enough - they’d used a wrong, overly specific charge than what the actual evidence was (though not what the victim had stated, using the wrong term), and there was nothing to be done at that point. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959/11 "2020-07-10T21:35:07Z")
Christi Bennet was arrested within hours of her offense, with no more evidence than is available in the Booker case. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959/12 "2020-07-10T21:46:51Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Christi Bennet was arrested within hours of her offense, with no more evidence than is available in the Booker case Well yeah, that one was easy. These guys are obviously apparently guilty. How severe are the charges that the prosecutor can be assured of a jury in that locale voting guilty on? Too high, and the evidence might not be ironclad. Too low, and it’s a joke. Who knows, maybe they’re dragging their feet, but there’s a lot more to it than “lock them up and we’ll sort it out later”. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959/13 "2020-07-10T21:49:22Z")
I don’t understand this. They can’t add charges later? They can’t reduce charges? Whatever charges they write up at the time of arrest is what they MUST stick to, regardless of anything else? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959/14 "2020-07-10T21:57:09Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I can’t find a complete video but a lot of it is [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0ZDIJpg5jU). As far as I know the video in [the other Pit thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/master-racists-larp-deliverance/914492) is complete. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959/15 "2020-07-10T23:07:32Z")
C’mon there was nothing as serious as possibly passing a fake $20 here, the police don’t want to overreact . . . this time. CMC ---
**Author:** ![Human\_Action](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@Human\_Action](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Human_Action)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959/16 "2020-07-10T23:53:42Z")
Having the DNR investigating instead of the regular police is a bit of a monkey wrench, I’d imagine. Aggravated assault presumably falls a bit outside their typical purview. The fact that they failed to make arrests at the time of the incident is also questionable. On that basis alone, I’d be more confident that justice would be served if it was investigated by, say, the state police. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959/17 "2020-07-11T00:06:44Z")
> [@Human\_Action](#): > > The fact that they failed to make arrests at the time of the incident is also questionable. Right. I’m wondering if the slow response is partly due to their foot-dragging trying to cover their asses for their lack of response at the beginning. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959/18 "2020-07-12T02:10:49Z")
Are they gonna take 3 or 4 months like they did with Mr. Arbery’s murderers? ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959/19 "2020-07-12T02:23:58Z")
> [@Human\_Action](#): > > Having the DNR investigating instead of the regular police is a bit of a monkey wrench, I’d imagin The feds are on it. Problem solved! > **[FBI investigating alleged attempted lynching of civil rights activist](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/08/vauhxx-booker-lynching-attempt-investigation-fbi-indiana)** > > Vauhxx Booker, who is black, said white men pinned him against a tree, shouted racial slurs and one threatened to ‘get a noose’ 🙄 [ ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959/20 "2020-07-12T02:43:00Z")
So, we can expect the arrest of Vauhxx Booker any day now! CMC [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-vauhxx-bookers-assailants-been-arrested-yet/914959.md?page=2)