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> ages ago, mobs storming the local jail and hanging a suspect wasn't that uncommon. Sometimes, suspects don't even make it to the jail. https://en.wikipedia.
by aspenmayer 8mo ago
> ages ago, mobs storming the local jail and hanging a suspect wasn't that uncommon.
Sometimes, suspects don't even make it to the jail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ruby_Shoots_Lee_Harvey_Oswald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ruby_Shoots_Lee_Harvey_Os...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre
Uncommon or not, vigilantism is incompatible with justice on a societal level, regardless of any alleged guilt of offenders.
Without a showing of evidence, a trial of the accused, and a verdict that withstands judgment, we're left with theories and conjecture, and hatchets long left unburied.