The FBI is assisting officials in Indiana with the investigation of last week’s beating of a Black man by multiple white men who used a racial slur, the sheriff and others said at a press conference Wednesday.
An eyewitness video of Friday’s incident at Pike’s Pub just outside of Fort Wayne went viral on social media, and showed multiple white men in biker attire that read “Outlaws” punching and hitting the Black man down to the ground. In the video, the white men and onlookers called the victim the “n word,” and someone threw a chair at the Black man.
Allen County Sheriff Troy Hershberger said the FBI would be working with his agency, and he acknowledged the pain that the community has felt because of the incident.
“It was an attack on who we are as a community,” Hershberger said during the press conference. “An attack like this strikes fear, anger, and pain into the hearts of many. And it does not just harm the person targeted, it sends a message of hate, intimidation, and division that ripples across every family, every neighborhood, and every person that calls Allen County home.”…