Mexican lynching on Good Friday

[unicorn]

A female kidnapping suspect was dragged out of a police vehicle and murdered on Good Friday. Just like Jesus would have done... 🙄

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/mob-mexico-brutally-beats-suspected-004119620.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGZIABlplDYESXaq89rFYV4lkDptKUU62rpiCXWFtrhVh4ngfzYweADMVba-dxj75fbcN4JWQ-BkpPlvPTZLMvJQb-O9bWHlxJzDYkoX8BAyjnYljanszVZDnx66Ltu51pdhWq1tf0rrCayVwVVF3PJioGtLdObGQceq39f22rAd

[vinapu]

I wouldn't bring Jesus into that but if you need to better choice of words would be "Just like Jesus would have suffer".

But there's some analogy indeed - mob justice as guy was just  a suspect , not criminal caught doing the deed.

[unicorn]

56 minutes ago, vinapu said:

I wouldn't bring Jesus into that...

I was thinking of the Bible story in which Jesus is purported to have said "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." And I think most people would consider murder a sin.

[Marc in Calif]

[unicorn]

57 minutes ago, Marc in Calif said:

I feel a song coming on...

 

[Marc in Calif]

42 minutes ago, unicorn said:

I feel a song coming on... "Hmmmmmm"

Are you saying you didn't get the reference?

[unicorn]

44 minutes ago, Marc in Calif said:

Are you saying you didn't get the reference?

The Weakest Link?

[Mavica]

The girl who was kidnaped was murdered.

I'm in Mexico City this week and there is much video of the vigilantes doling-out justice as they deem it proper.  Such acts of instant justice are not unusual in Mexico.  Sometimes the accused who is beaten or killed was actually innocent.  I remember one case where plain clothed police were pursuing a criminal who shouted the men chasing him were child abductors.  One police officer was beaten to one inch of his life, so to speak, and the true criminal - suspected for child abduction himself- escaped.  We see acts like this worldwide in communities with low education and/or where confidence in the police doesn't exist.  No different than in the "old west" in the USA when people were hanged for assumed criminal activity ... and without a trial.  

[unicorn]

2 hours ago, Marc in Calif said:

Are you saying you didn't get the reference?

Oh, I get it now. Jane Lynch....

[caeron]

I suspect she was innocent, since it almost always men who commit those kinds of murders.

Doesn't take a genius to figure out from what soil those gangs arose.

[unicorn]

1 hour ago, Mavica said:

...We see acts like this worldwide in communities with low education and/or where confidence in the police doesn't exist...

Well, the police at the vehicle where she was being held certainly didn't intervene while the accused was being brutally murdered.

[xpaulo]

This reminded me of an American woman who was attacked for stealing a child during a Holy Week parade in a rural Guatemalan town. I looked it up. It was 30 years ago to the day. Time flies. She was a tourist and had not stolen any children. But there were lots of rumours at the time about foreigners stealing children for organ transplants and there she was, taking photos of kids in the square. The boy was only missing for about hour before he was found, but it was too late. I recall police took her to a government building, but then left her there alone as a violent mob attacked. She was beaten until the men believed she was dead. She did live, but one of the more recent stories I saw said she's been living in a nursing home as her injuries were severe and permanent. From the stories I saw, these mob attacks on foreign tourists do happen occasionally in Mexico and Guatemala, but more commonly on locals.