Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Howard Smith's Rules Committee. In what may have been his valediction, Smith, 83, who was defeated in a primary upset last month, movingly complained that his colleagues were panicking as a result of Negro riots in the big-city ghettos. Said he: "Now we come here with mobs in the streets, with further mob violence threatened, and no word is spoken of courage to defend the American way of Government." The House gave the venerable Virginian a standing ovation-then voted against...
...Lynching is lynching, and I am against lynching. It makes no difference whether a white mob lynches a Negro in Mississippi or a black mob lynches a white man in the Congo, whether a Communist mob lynches an "exploiter" in China or a Nationalist mob lynches a "Peking dog" in Indonesia...
Police Chief Richard Wagner ordered a force of 400 cops into the area. They were outnumbered and all but engulfed. Dozens of fires flickered eerily over the sweating mob. Soon parts of Hough were plunged into darkness as electric power lines and street lights were shorted by flames. Negro snipers manned the rooftops and began shooting at random in the dark. Police tried desperately to herd people off the streets to protect them from crossfire between snipers and police. One young Negro woman, Mrs. Joyce Arnett, was searching frantically for her children when policemen pushed her into an apartment building...
...cops tried to grab him. He called to friends for help. The mob was born. Within the hour, roving bands, composed largely of youngsters, were looting stores, setting fires, and heaving bricks and bottles at the blue-helmeted police who were sent in to restore order...
...police response to the mob was often feckless but occasionally ferocious. As the disorders spread, Superintendent Orlando Wilson built his force from 200 men the first night to 900 the third. The mobs generally retained the initiative as police dashed confusedly back and forth over the battleground to meet each new challenge. At times, the cops displayed admirable coolness in the face of vile curses and the bruising missiles of street warfare; at others, they matched the rioters in reckless violence with club and gun. Once, after losing a sniper in the dark, a squad of infuriated cops turned...