Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Powell fell dead on the sidewalk, other students swarmed onto the street. One girl yelled: "This is worse than Mississippi!" Another shouted at police: "Come on, shoot another nigger." The youths threw bottles, cans and pieces of cement at 75 policemen, who struggled for two hours to get the mob under control. A Negro patrolman suffered a concussion when struck...
...ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT. After a riot has been quelled, invisible particles that have been sprayed on the mob "will show up when police, using special scanners, interrogate people at identification checkpoints, and will thus enable them to identify mob participants...
...SMOKE. "Under favorable wind conditions," says the colonel, "demonstrations can be inundated with white, nontoxic, nonstaining, obscuring smoke. The effect is both tactical and psychological. Vision is obscured, sense of direction is lost, and mob unity is destroyed. These advantages are coupled with a harmless throat irritation that induces coughing and causes the individuals affected to leave the area with little desire to return...
Leaping from four police cars in a Versailles square last week, a wedge of cops hustled their handcuffed prisoner toward the doors of St. Pierre jail. Before they could make it, a screaming mob burst through police lines and pelted the prisoner with blows. "Give him to us!" they cried. "Kill the monster!" Their target was the confessed killer of little Jean-Luc Taron (TIME, June 19), and he seemed elated at the commotion. Turning to the flics, he yelled above the uproar: "They're right! 1 am a monster...
...abstract mass or a brooding presence. One day Joanna is found brutally murdered in her bedroom. Obviously Joe has killed her. But this would not have excited the town until an acquaintance of Joe Christmas says that he has always thought Joe was a nigger. That sets off the mob. In his description of Joe's lynching, Faulkner makes clear that vengeance does not expunge guilt, and expiation is nigh to impossible...