Also read more about the story at this LINK via The Sun.
Posted on 10/01/2018 11:53:38 PM PDT by beaversmom
A mob of about 100 people in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo doused a detective with gasoline and burned him to death, according to local officials.
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They severely beat the men and burned the detective after dousing him with fuel. It was unclear if he was on duty or if they knew he was a detective.
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There have been five killings in the span of about a month in Mexico based on false rumors about child snatchers. In four of those cases, the victims were also burned.
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In 2004, a mob on the southern outskirts of Mexico City beat two federal agents and burned them to death for allegedly taking pictures of schoolchildren. Some claimed they believed the agents were kidnappers, but it turned out that they were on assignment investigating a case.
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Authorities say the rumors circulate on social media and have asked the public not to believe them.
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In late August, two men were set afire by an angry mob in Puebla after they apparently stopped to have beer near a school.
In 2015., residents of Ajalpan, Puebla beat to death two young men who were making inquiries in the town.
Rumors spread that they were trying to kidnap children, but the two men were actually conducting a commercial survey about tortilla consumption.
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Horrible to be falsely accused of something in our justice system, but I sure as heck wouldn’t want to be having to explain myself down “South”. What a mess. Not the first time I have read about this type of thing happening in the Central American states.
This is what happens when all that matters is the seriousness of the accusation.
This is a grim case but even it is not lacking in aspects of the theater of the absurd:
Rumors spread that they were trying to kidnap children, but the two men were actually conducting a commercial survey about tortilla consumption.
Poor fellows. :(
Shades of “The Wicker Man” in another primitive, pagan culture...
I have a good idea. Let’s fill our country with people who act like this......
Mr.Trump, throw the border open, diversity is our strength!
build the wall
Organ trafficking rumors...
There’s a lesson to be learned by US citizens who think they are safe here from the same fate, a mob, indifferent, emotionally fired up, misled and fearful..
Look at some of the streets in cities across this land and the protests that go on, now, almost daily..
A lesson, indeed.
Humanity is just a word it seems but so is fear..
Until one leaves your neighborhood and the other occupies it and reality sets in.
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