A nice red herring you have there.
The members of the mob weren't policemen or even jail guards; they were militiamen who had been ordered by the governor to disband and go home.
Instead of returning home, they volunteered to attack the jail and kill the Smiths. Some men in the mob blackened their faces to disguise their identities. None were acting in any official capacity.
As I pointed out in my previous post, the members of the mob were not fired upon, threatened, or otherwise incited by Joseph Smith or any of his companions. The mob murdered Joseph and Hyrum Smith (and severely wounded John Taylor) in cold blood, before either could stand trial.
Surely you are not making excuses for the actions of the mob, are you?
Joey Smith fired a gun that had been smuggled into the jail...
Why did an “innocent” man need a gun while he was in jail ???
He shot THREE men point blank...
Hardly the actions of a so called “martyr”
He was familiar with weapons and he shot to kill...
Hardly the actions of a so called “victim” of “cold blooded murder”
Joey Smith was only wounded from the first THREE bullets he recieved...
Hardly the results of “cold blooded murder”
200 in the group outside ???
And most of them sharp shooters...
And yet they didnt shoot to kill...
If they had he would have been dead from that first shot...
A LYNCH mob ???
And yet Joey Smith was in there several days...
They could have pulled him out and strung him up any time they wanted to...
He had been tarred and feathered in the past for raping young girls..
he knew the score...
May be they were angry because Joey Smith was just thumbing his nose at the law as usual..
he was sitting in jail, drinking booze and running his theocracy over in Nauvoo as though it was business as usual..
The men in the crowd were afraid for the virtue of the wives and young daughters, and the murder, thievery and mayhem that Joey Smith anf his Danites had done in their area...
Surely you are not making excuses for the actions of the mobster, Joey Smith, are you?