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Burned to Death Because of a Rumour on WhatsApp

posted by martyb on Wednesday November 14 2018, @02:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the Wizard's-First-Rule dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @04:49PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @04:49PM (#761789)

    Go through the appropriate justice system, and if properly found guilty to a sufficiently high degree of certainly, lynch those who appear in the video taking part.

    If there is a law requiring people to call the police/ambulance for those situations, prosecute literally everyone present who can be shown to have not done so.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @04:57PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @04:57PM (#761794)

    This was in front of a police station. The men were dragged out of that police station. The police was already there; calling them would have been pointless.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @05:21PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @05:21PM (#761800)

      I hope they have laws which will permit prosecuting those cops for failing in their duty of care.

      • (Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Wednesday November 14 2018, @05:37PM

        by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Wednesday November 14 2018, @05:37PM (#761804)

        > failing in their duty of care.

        In Mexico isn't it more "duty of cartel"?