The dictionary definition in the particular case of black- on-white violence is woefully inadequate and very outdated.
We are way past ‘propriety’ here.
I fail to see why we should redefine a perfectly good word. What is your reason?
I’m making no excuses for these guys, and I’m not downplaying what they (allegedly) did.
I just disagree that a group of three people constitutes a mob. What advantage is there to calling them a mob?
Is two people a mob? How about one?