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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @08:51PM
They accept the ire they earn by enforcing the law when they take the job.
If a cops brother is attempting to murder a person and shooting him is the only reliable way to stop it, then he has a duty to do so.