I don’t ever recall the LDS going out of their close meeting and waylaying those of another faith, but there is plenty of data on the mainstream who would get physical and dragging people out of their homes and tar and feather, beating the LDS also try to feed poison them etc.
I'm sure you can link to proof of this "data", right?
Just makes one wonder what was going on in the mainstream closed door meetings in those days that would provoke such behavior!
The only riots of any substance in Missouri in 1838 took place on August 3 in Gallatin. A group of about 30 Mormon men turned out to vote in a local election; they were denied because they weren’t supposed to be residing in Daviess County as per the terms of a deal which gave the Saints all of Caldwell County in exchange for their abandoning all claims in Independence. In the exchange, some Gentile idiot said there were two groups that would never be allowed to vote, n-word and Mormons. A riot ensued with the Saints, armed with sticks and clubs, trouncing about 200 Gentiles. There were no fatalities and no known serious injuries.
In September, the Saints, who had been too involved in what the historian Hubert Bancroft calls the “first Mormon Civil War” to plant a reasonable supply of crops were by that time were facing starvation. In response, the Saints began raiding Gentile farms and removing their food stores along with other “consecrated property.”
On October 14, Smith declared a jihad type of holy war:
“If the people [of Missouri] come on us to molest us, we will establish our religion by the sword. We will trample down our enemies and make it one gore of blood from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. I will be to this generation a second Mohammed, whose motto in treating for peace was ‘the Quran or the Sword.’ So shall it eventually be with us – Joseph Smith or the Sword” –History of the Church, Vol. 3, p. 167.
Three days later, Mormons led by a Danite loon named “Captain Fear-not” (originally named David Patten, he had apparently legally changed his name) looted everything they could haul off in Daviess County (a second riot perhaps).
On October 25, the Saints ambushed a Missouri National Guard unit consisting of about two dozen troops at a location south of Far West in what has since been named “the Crooked River Battle.” Four soldiers were killed along with one Mormon — Fear-not — who apparently thought he was invincible and charged the Guard on his own. When the Guard returned to claim their fallen comrades, the found the Saints had mutilated their bodies.
This series of incidents led to Governor Boggs’ “extermination order” on October 27. He activated the state’s entire guard of around 4,500 troops and approved their march on Far West.
On October 30, the second and final battle of the “Missouri-Mormon War” took place a Haun’s Mill — a grist mill with a small Mormon settlement located a few miles east of Far West. A contingent of about 250 guard troops marching on Far West ran into the Mormons who opened fire on the troops, according to all of the guards, but strongly denied by all of the Mormons. When the firing ceased, seventeen Saints lay dead; another 13 or so were injured. Guard casualties amounted to three wounded.
The bulk of the Saints were surrounded the same day by the Missouri Guard at Far West. They spent much of the night placing their looted property in a common location (so no individual could be charged with theft), praying, and then surrendered the next morning.
Several Mormon leaders including Smith, Rigdon and Parley Pratt (Mitt’s great-great grandfather) were charged with “treason, murder, arson, burgulary, robbery, larceny and perjury” and ordered held without bail.
Within a few weeks, the majority of the Saints had left Missouri, and a few months after Smith et al. escaped while in in transit to trial bringing the whole tragic episode to a conclusion.
You just love to tell half stories...