local justice

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..

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.

I am surprised that you got out of jail so fast to write this post, Masterson!

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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.

I didn't mean to condemn or condon the action of the neighbors.. just reporting the local news..

thought I would add... the police usually beat the H_ _ _ out of people sometime during the process of arresting someone.... Maybe they cut this guy some slack since the crowd beat them to it..