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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @03:47AM
Furthermore, people we consider "white" now were not white until very recently. Poles, germans, irish, italians - not white. They weren't black, but they sure weren't white either. Especially if they weren't catholic. And before some dumbshit reactionary racist like buzzard or runaway comes along screaming that white is white, fuck off and learn some history. The second coming of the KKK, the one that was most widespread, controlling entire state governments, was formed specifically to keep out non-white europeans that had come in immigration waves from 1870-1920 or so.