April 26, 2021

Cell phone footage of a group of white men attacking a Black man in the Indiana woods on July 4, 2020 becomes a national news story during a summer of simmering racial tensions in the United States. Vauhxx Booker, a community activist in Bloomington, Indiana, says he feared for his life during the attack. A defense lawyer for one of the men charged in the assault accuses Booker of provoking the confrontation. Can a process of mediation and restorative justice resolve this ugly incident? 

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