Booker said the incident began with him and his friends planning to go view the lunar eclipse on Independence Day. He said that on the way into Lake Monroe, the group crossed paths with a person he described as “a large white male (seemingly drunk) wearing an oversized hat with a confederate flag print on it.”

In the post, Booker wrote that the man followed them on an ATV and told them that they were on private property. Once Booker’s group made it inside the park, they told an event organizer about the encounter and were told the individual they ran into wasn’t the property owner.

Booker and his group advised those joining them to use the public route to their location so they could avoid any issues. Booker said the group with the white man had blocked off the public path with a boat and ATVs. When people trying to join Booker’s group approached the beach, he said they were assailed with “White power” chants. These chants, as well as those of "Get a noose," can be heard in the video.

Things escalated when Booker tried to “smooth things over” with the men. He wrote that “two of them jumped me from behind” at first. Then, a scuffle ensued on the ground, and more of the assailants jumped into the fray.

“The five were able to easily overwhelm me and got me to the ground and dragged me pinning my body against a tree as they began pounding on my head and ripped off some of my hair, with several of them still on top of my body holding me down," Booker wrote.

"They held me pinned and continued beating me for several minutes seemingly become [sic] more and more enraged as they kept trying to seriously injure me and failing," he continued. "At one point during the attack one of the men jumped on my neck. I could feel both his feet and his full bodyweight land hard against my neck."

The 36-year-old said he was only let go after several other strangers, who also happened to be white, came to his aid. Yahoo News reports Booker suffered a concussion and sustained other injuries.

Social media users uncovered the identities of the men alleged to have attacked Booker, and the company where two of them were employed was bombarded with negative comments and reviews Monday, Yahoo reported.

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