Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...belated disclosure was prompted, said his lawyer, by his concern that an innocent man not be prosecuted. That was scant consolation to Boston's black community, which had felt persecuted for more than two months as the result of a lie. Boston N.A.A.C.P. president Louis Elisa decried "the lynch- mob mentality" ignited by the case. The Rev. Charles Stith, a prominent leader in the black community, accused local news media of "overkill" that whipped up racial tensions with biased accounts of "the worst of what black people are supposed to be." Elisa demanded an apology from Mayor Raymond Flynn...
...excuse for ignoring their civil rights. It was true, we were not citizens, we were beasts. The response of the mayor and the police was to stop us all on the streets, detain us without probable cause. Collectively, the press, Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn, and the police promoted the mob mentality that pervaded as it conducted its witch hunt...