Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right of his race, in the sight of God. That his feeling is not a calm one can be shown by a quotation from an article of his in the New York Evening Post some time ago: "It would probably surprise many to know how often lynching mobs are composed to a considerable extent of men (and women) who would be ordinarily classed as good citizens. Does this always mean that some particularly horrible crime has stirred them to deeds unthinkable in calmer and more dispassionate moments? By no means. The spirit of mob violence has degenerated, if such...
...positive duty," promised that no stone would in the future be left unturned to guard American life and property. It also said that "the Government and people of Persia are extremely chagrined and depressed" by the violent death of Major Imbrie at the hands of a fanatical mob...
...Sheriff later apprehended two Negroes suspected of causing the double death. They were conveyed to jail in the adjoining town of Mound City. Slowly a grumbling mob assembled. A storm-cloud of violence hovered over the scene. Then a man came forward from the crowd. He pleaded with them not to resort to violence. He prayed with them. There was no lynching that...
...injury to justice is in publicity before the trial. Newspaper trials before the case is called have become an abomination. The dan- gerous initiative that newspapers have taken in judging and convicting out of court is journalistic lynch law. It is mob murder or mob ac- quittal in all but the overt act. It is mob appeal. Prosecuting attorneys now hasten to the papers with their theories and confessions. Defense attorneys do the same. Neither dare do otherwise. Half wit juries or prejudiced juries are the inevitable result...
...bring the guilty persons to justice. The message indicated, however, that "the Imbrie and Seymour accident was due to their own carelessness in going to a sacred place and persisting in taking pictures. The police and army forces which went to protect them, when they were attacked by the mob, received serious injuries. Three policemen were mortally wounded and one of the soldiers died a few hours later as a result of injuries received...