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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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Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 14 2018, @08:52PM (2 children)
Actually - no. That cop was a coward, plain and simple. He was no good guy at all. He thought being a cop was all about security, a pension, a nice home, and spending his hard-earned tax dollars, skimmed out of all his neighbor's pockets. He wasn't about to put himself at risk, just to save a kid, or six kids, or fifty kids. Good guy? A "good guy" is a guy who will risk himself for his fellow man. Don't confuse a self serving ass with a good guy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @09:50PM
I think you're missing the point being made above.
The "one good guy with a gun" sarcastic comment illustrates how that argument supporting wide adoption and carrying of guns is flawed reasoning.
Occasionally the good guy with a gun will have 100% positive outcomes, but I bet most times it will create problems and get the "good guy" killed by the cops or someone who doesn't quite know which person is good or bad.
Not that your commentary is invalid, a cowardly cop is a sad human being.
Here we see the value inherent in educational systems!!! *reading skills*
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday November 14 2018, @10:07PM
No True Scotsman character assassination, as befitting of someone who wasn't there to judge the real-time unknowns of the tactical situation, and can't handle that the "good guy with a gun" line is worthy of Hollywood, not of real situations where one or many gunmen are not gonna miss you ten times just because a scenario requires it.
There was a Good Guy With A Gun in Thousand Oaks last week. He's now dead, and his death may have saved a few people, or maybe not. The shooter killed himself when he was done, not because an actual Hero barged in to save people.
Most cops are not Rambo or John McLane. The Florida one was a bad cop, who did not do what might maybe potentially have saved lives, and hindered some of his colleagues coming in to assist. But don't buy the rhetoric that anyone who signs up to help keep the peace, or just carries a gun, is eager to go in a blaze of glory. That's the fallacy of the Good Guy line.