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Rodman has offered to pay the funeral expenses of the black man who was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his death earlier this week in Jasper, Texas.

Three white men, including two with tattoos indicating white supremacist beliefs, have been charged in James Byrd Jr.’s death.

Rodman said he decided to do something for Byrd’s family as soon as he heard about the gruesome death earlier this week.

“It’s not because he’s black and I’m black and I’m trying to do something for the black community,” Rodman said.

“It’s more just the fact that it’s a brutal crime where someone shouldn’t have been in that situation. I’d do it for anybody else if it happened that way.”

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More Rodman: For the second time in less than a week, Rodman was sued, this time by a woman claiming he sexually assaulted her in April at the Las Vegas Hilton.

The complaint was filed on behalf of Dixie Johnson, a Clark County resident. Johnson is seeking compensatory damages of $300,000 and punitive damages of $3 million, plus attorney fees and costs of the lawsuit.

Rodman was sued last week by a Las Vegas craps dealer for allegedly humiliating him by rubbing the dice on his body parts.