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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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(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @09:01PM
Not got a horse in this race, but as the subject is of passing interest...one quick search leads to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States, [wikipedia.org] where you'll find
'There is no count of recorded lynchings which claims to be precise, and the numbers vary depending on the sources, the years considered, and the definition used to define an incident. The Tuskegee Institute has recorded 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites being lynched between 1882 and 1968, with the annual peak occurring in the 1890s, at a time of economic stress in the South and increasing political suppression of blacks.'
4743 in total, which gives you 27.4% of the victims being white.
As The Tuskegee Institute is a black University, I can't really see why their figures here would be askew.
(Of course, the same article does also point out
'There is no count of recorded lynchings which claims to be precise, and the numbers vary depending on the sources, the years considered, and the definition used to define an incident. ')