VERACRUZ: was listening to local news this AM and picked up this tidbit..
Seems a fellow attempted to rape a young girl in one of the local colonials lastnight.. The young girl escaped and begn running / screaming up the street with man chasing her.. This brought out the neighbors who caught him, tied him to a pole.. then commenced beating him.. Fortunately for the offender, someone called the police who eventually showed up and rescued him.. hauled him of to jail..
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longford
You'll read many such reports of vigilante/mob action/justice in the Mexican media during the course of the year. It's not uncommon for the person alleged to have committed the crime to have actually been innocent; unfortunately, their innocence isn't learned until after they've been beaten to death. I'm all for quick justice, but don't support mob action such as you're describing.
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richtx1
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<hr>It's not uncommon for the person alleged to have committed the crime to have actually been innocent; unfortunately, their innocence isn't learned until after they've been beaten to death.<hr></blockquote>
Oh really? Could you give some examples of these "innocent victims", perhaps? The ONLY one I'm aware of, and it was a dubious incident from the beginning, was when the plainclothes cops were burned alive in the little pueblo in the Federal District a few years ago.
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