Two innocent men have been burned alive by a massive lynch mob after WhatsApp rumours branded them child abductors.
A large crowd gathered outside the police station after rumours spread about the two men.
A mob dragged two men out of a police station, savagely beat them and then set them on fire, killing them, after a false rumour was spread on WhatsApp about the pair being child kidnappers.
The mother of one of the men made a desperate plea for the crowd to stop as she watched the lynching unfold on a Facebook livestream.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-46145986
(Score: 4, Interesting) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday November 14 2018, @04:35PM (1 child)
I thought that was a hilarious pun for "mob justice", but then I looked up the term and found people actually use the term "democratization of justice" entirely seriously. But when you look in to it, it really does mean the same thing.
Then it became more hilarious.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday November 14 2018, @06:41PM
The majority of the vocal people present at the time rules.
My greek is too rusty to make up that word. That'd be a useful one.