Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just before dawn, a pack of Times Square ruffians comes running wildly after a terrified, nearly naked young man. The mob is close behind, screeching, cursing, lobbing bottles and beer cans at the victim...
...shirt, my jacket, wallet, everything. Mom, get me out of here.' " The Courys said they would try to contact friends in suburban New Jersey to help him. Coury waited near the police post until midnight. A few hours later he was in Times Square, running from the heckling mob. Another brother, Charles, says Gerry was "accosted, beaten, stripped and abandoned in New York City. I certainly would have freaked out after that...
...International Brotherhood of Teamsters may well be the most powerful union post in the U.S., but it has its hazards. Two of the last three Teamster bosses, Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa, were sent to prison on corruption charges. After his release, Hoffa vanished, presumably rubbed out by the Mob. Says Jackie Presser, a Teamster vice president: "That chair isn't a throne, it's an electric chair." His point...
Although the indictment cast a dark shadow over the convention and its 2,200 delegates, the issues were rarely confronted directly. Presiding as the interim president in place of the late Frank Fitzsimmons, whose subdued public leadership had offended neither the Justice Department nor the Mob, Williams scoffed at his accusers. He dismissed the latest indictment as "a damned lie" and the congressional report as "so wrong and so false" that he need not respond...
...Kresge's to win equal service at the luncheonette counter. Black and white protesters were assaulted by people at the counter. Then the assailants brought charges against the protesters. Koch tells the story with helpless humor (the "heh, heh, heh") about the pixilated justice of the peace; the redneck mob; the unhelpful FBI officer named Robert E. Lee, to whom Koch offered to send his intended route to Jackson, "to make it easier for you to find the bodies." And the inevitable verdict...