In Indiana, the culture of white supremacy remains alive and well. According to RTV6 Indianapolis, Indiana at the Ku Klux Klan's peak, the governor of Indiana, over half of the state's legislature and nearly 30 percent of all white men born in the state were members. That culture, while not totally alive and well in Indiana revealed itself recently when authorities in Indiana shared that a Black man said he was attacked by a group of white people who attempted to lynch him.

The incident, which went viral on Sunday, was captured in a series of videos posted to Facebook.

The Black man involved in the incident, Vauhxx Booker, is a member of the Monroe County Human Rights Commission and described the incident which took place in Bloomington's Lake Monroe saying that five men took him, pinned him to a tree, and beat him while pulling out his hair. The incident happened after Booker said he had mistakenly trespassed on private property "At one point during the attack one of the men jumped on my neck," Booker in the post shared to Facebook. "I could feel both his feet and his full bodyweight land hard against my neck."

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In his post, Booker said that bystanders attempted to help him and yelled for the men to let him go.

When the men assaulting him replied to the protesters they said "We're going to break his arms," and yelled, "Get a noose." While the comments were not captured on video, Booker has described the attack as a hate crime. He also claimed that he was "almost the victim of an attempted lynching." "With me still pinned underneath them they kept telling onlookers to leave the 'boy' and that everyone else (all white) could go," Booker wrote in his post.

In response, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources confirmed in a statement that they had responded to a report of a battery in the area on Saturday "on private property adjacent to Monroe Reservoir property."

According to BuzzFeed News, a spokesperson for the FBI said that they were "aware of the incident and is monitoring the situation."

Video captured of the incident reveals a group of white men holding Booker against a tree.

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In one of the videos, when the person who is filming moves closer to the assailants he says "Please, let him go," and one of the white men replies "You go." "You go and we will let him go," one of the women replies.

In another video posted to Facebook by Booker, a man without a shirt can be seen calling Booker a "nappy-headed bitch." "We were having a great time and you invaded us," another man yells in the video "You stupid f******* liberal f****."

In his post about the incident, Booker wrote that he and a friend were heading to the beach at the lake to attend a lunar eclipse gathering. A man with a Confederate that followed him on an ATV and told Booker and his friend that they were on private property.

"We relayed to him that we believed the organizers had received permission from the property owners to cross, but apologized and went on to our beautiful site just off the water without any further incident. When we arrived we told the event organizer of the encounter and it was relayed that the individual wasn’t the actual property owner and the organizer apologized. Even still, we advised our folks still en route to use the public beach way to avoid any possible conflict arising," Booker wrote in the Facebook post. "We later found out that these individuals had blocked off the public beach way with a boat and their ATVs claiming that it was also their land. When folks tried to cross them, the assailants yelled, “white power” at them. Honestly, we thought it might just be the one drunken individual with the confederate hat we had encountered earlier who might be instigating the conflict. We decided to just walk back and attempt to simply have a conversation with some of the more sober seeming group members and see if we could smooth things over a bit. We were calm and polite, but looking back now, it’s apparent that these individuals began targeting our group the moment they saw myself, a Black man and were looking to provoke a conflict."

Booker said that once they came across the people on ATVs they initially seemed calm but "quickly became aggressive" so he and his friend attempted to leave.

Booker claims the group then followed them and then two "jumped me from behind and knocked me to the ground," Booker said. "Yet DNR refused to arrest any of these individuals, even with multiple the witnesses several who filmed the event and collaborated our accounts. Instead, the officers stated they contacted the Prosecutor’s office who relayed there was no immediate need to arrest anyone, and that the officers would simply file a report. To reiterate, this attack occurred on public land and was recorded by numerous individuals who made statements against the attackers for assaulting them and me. I’m gravely concerned that if any other people of color who were to cross their path they could be killed."

Booker's attorney told the Indianapolis Star that no one has been arrested in connection to the incident.