Posted on 05/19/2016 5:45:11 AM PDT by detective
The mob didn't know at first what Roberto Bernal had done, but he was running and that was enough.
Dozens of men loitering on the sidewalk next to a supermarket kicked and punched the 42-year-old until he was bloodied and semi-conscious. After all, they had been robbed of cell phones, wallets and motorcycles over the years, and thought Bernal had a criminal's face.
Then a stooped, white-haired man trailing behind told them he'd been mugged.
The mob went through Bernal's pockets and handed a wad of bills to the old man: The equivalent of $5. They doused Bernal's head and chest in gasoline and flicked a lighter. And they stood back as he burned alive.
"We wanted to teach this man a lesson," said Eduardo Mijares, 29. "We're tired of being robbed every time we go into the street, and the police do nothing."
Vigilante violence against people accused of stealing has become commonplace in this crime-ridden country of 30 million, once one of the richest and safest in Latin America.
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On a recent trip, she was telling me how her generation looks forward to the passing of the older generation so they can complete their beautiful world. She’s also in favor of zero dollar spent on defense. I just hang my head in astonishment and shame. She and her pals have NO idea what could be in store for them...as you say, it always ends in disaster and there is absolutely NO reason to think it can’t happen in the old USA.
As Reagan famously said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
Amen to Reagan.
The first line is the scariest thing I’ve read in a long time. This is a generation that will see killing fields.
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