Wasn’t there outrage over a dragging death in Texas during W’s tenure? The language is absolute a racist dog whistle as the Left likes to cry about.
An innocent black man was dragged to his death by three white ex-convicts while George W. Bush was Governor of Texas. The NAACP ran anti-Bush ads right before the 2000 election using that incident because he did not back a new “hate crime” law (I think two of the perpetrators got the death penalty and the third got life imprisonment in exchange for testifying for the prosecution).