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| Chihuahua: Customers, Victims Lynch Robbery Suspect |
| 2010-10-08 |
| Google Translate An unidentified armed robbery suspect, abandoned by his accomplices, was beaten and stabbed to death by a mob of food vendors and customers Thursday afternoon in Juarez, Chihuahua, according to Mexican news reports. The lynching took place at the Parral barbeque restarant near the intersection of calles Benemérito de las Américas y Plutarco ElÃas Calles, when a group of four suspects attempted to hold up the restaurant. As the suspects started to leave as it became apparent they were robbing the place, a crowd fell upon the last suspect and beat him to death. His other three accomplices escaped the crowd's wrath. The owner said the crowd's reaction was a natural one and took place all at once. This is the third such event in Juarez in three weeks, the last being a mob in the Villas de Santiago district Wednesday morning where a mob fell upon a burglary suspect and attempted to immolate him. Mexican Federal agents rescued the suspect before the crowd could set fire to him. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #15 IIRC in one of those stories, 'suspected' leaders/motivators of the local 'committee of justice' left town to avoid contact with authorities. Like all free men, they had every right to dodge process, and it's not quite the same thing as standing still and letting authorities charge you with a crime. |
| Posted by: badanov 2010-10-08 14:32 |
| #14 IIRC in one of those stories, 'suspected' leaders/motivators of the local 'committee of justice' left town to avoid contact with authorities. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-10-08 14:01 |
| #13 not one citizen who has killed a criminal has been charged. That I know of... Rinse the linked article through Google Translate and see if you don't get the same impression I got: that the uprising within the restaurant was sudden, completely spontaneous and absolutely merciless. Three of the bad guy's companeros cleared the area as soon as they realized what was about to happen. Even after newly inaugurated Chihuahua state governor Cesar Duarte warned Monday that Chihuahuans should not take the law into their own hands, we have two such events in just three days immediately following that speech. One wounded, one dead and no charges against anyone. |
| Posted by: badanov 2010-10-08 12:45 |
| #12 That gets a response from the 'authorities' more so than the crime that provokes it, because they view it as a threat to their 'legitimacy' and power. Not in Chihuahua, it hasn't and I suspect it hasn't because of the cops are every bit sick of the crime bullsh*t as the average Mexican citizen is. In the three crimes in the last three weeks, four in the last five weeks, not one citizen who has killed a criminal has been charged. |
| Posted by: badanov 2010-10-08 12:32 |
| #11 Just as government derives its power from the 'consent of the governed', so does law and justice. When people perceive that the ruling class is unable or unwilling to provide justice, they start carrying it out themselves. That gets a response from the 'authorities' more so than the crime that provokes it, because they view it as a threat to their 'legitimacy' and power. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-10-08 12:09 |
| #10 this is what happens when you have no functioning police force or justice system. it's the same in Kenya. Nobody bothers calling the police who will just ask for bribes and do nothing anyway. I, as a Western tourist, could have anybody killed I wanted in Kenya. All I have to do is walk down the main street in Nairobi and suddenly shout : Stop Thief - he took my mobile phone! and start running after the poor hapless victim. Within 20 seconds people would stream from all around and kick that person to the ground and kill them before my eyes. Wouldn't matter if they stole from me, or if I was mistaken, or if I was just a psychotic serial killer who wanted to strike in a novel way. they'd be dead. it's not a good sign really |
| Posted by: anon1 2010-10-08 10:17 |
| #9 All of which show remarkable success in reducing recidivism. The ruling class in Mexico has refused the wishes of the people to re-institute the death penalty, even though the 'bad guys' obviously have no problem in using it. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-10-08 09:23 |
| #8 "they were NOT Lynched. Just Killed." Either way, he won't be robbing anyone else. Perfect reform method - mehbe decent Mexicans should step up its use. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-10-08 09:07 |
| #7 This is a deliberately misleading Headline, they were NOT Lynched. Just Killed. And Justly killed as well. Thieves take Note. The headline in the link uses the Spanish word linchan to describe the event, which translates into lynching. |
| Posted by: badanov 2010-10-08 07:49 |
| #6 From the selections at this link, I highly recommend number one, a Negra Modela, and a table in the far corner. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-10-08 07:41 |
| #5 Justicia de la frontera. |
| Posted by: Mike 2010-10-08 07:31 |
| #4 This is a deliberately misleading Headline, they were NOT Lynched. Just Killed. And Justly killed as well. Thieves take Note. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-10-08 04:59 |
| #3 and attempted to immolate him Next time, use a tire. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-10-08 01:49 |
| #2 He's Graveyard Dead, Jim. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2010-10-08 01:43 |
| #1 Good. |
| Posted by: borgboy 2010-10-08 00:28 |