Mob shoots, burns Policeman

[BobbyMac]

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2165009,00.html

This is a vile, despicable act. The people in this country are sick - every single one of the participants in this heinous crime should be removed from society permanently.

 

[lion_fish]

Another typical day in good old SA...*sigh*...my thoughts are with his family.

 

[bwana]

Killing a cop deserves the death penalty.

Why burn the body though? Trying to destroy evidence?

 

[Geriatrix]

Killing a cop deserves the death penalty.

Why burn the body though? Trying to destroy evidence?

I think its to emphasize their anger, and lack of respect for the man. Sort of like spitting on it. Like the flag burning guys in the middle east.

 

[Leitmotif]

Burning has been a favoured punishment since even before the days of the good old necklace.

 

[bwana]

Burning has been a favoured punishment since even before the days of the good old necklace.

Punishing a corpse? Or covering his tracks?

 

[killadoob]

Killing a cop deserves the death penalty.

Why burn the body though? Trying to destroy evidence?

killing anyone deserves the death penalty man

 

[Leitmotif]

Making an example. Besides, defiling a corpse as a method of showing disdain goes right back to the bronze age.

 

[Cataphract]

Making an example. Besides, defiling a corpse as a method of showing disdain goes right back to the bronze age.

I had a feeling that that's where Africa's development was headed. If all goes well we'll hit the bronze age in a couple of years.

 

[Jozi101]

http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2165009,00.html

This is a vile, despicable act. The people in this country are sick - every single one of the participants in this heinous crime should be removed from society permanently.

Mob?!?!?! It doesn't say mob in the article.

 

[StrongTurd]

Mob?!?!?! It doesn't say mob in the article.

"Mob": A disorderly crowd of people.

What's your point?

 

[Tassidar]

Mob?!?!?! It doesn't say mob in the article.

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The article states:

Eyewitnesses said the man was arguing with men in a nearby spaza shop when he was shot in the head.

So there was more than one person involved.

Dictionary.com defines mob as:

1. a disorderly or riotous crowd of people.
2. a crowd bent on or engaged in lawless violence.
3. any group or collection of persons or things.
4. the common people; the masses; populace or multitude.
5. a criminal gang, esp. one involved in drug trafficking, extortion, etc.
6. the Mob, Mafia (def. 1).
7. Sociology. a group of persons stimulating one another to excitement and losing ordinary rational control over their activity.
8. a flock, herd, or drove of animals: a mob of sheep.
–adjective
9. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lawless, irrational, disorderly, or riotous crowd: mob rule; mob instincts.
10. directed at or reflecting the lowest intellectual level of the common people: mob appeal; the mob mentality.
–verb (used with object)
11. to crowd around noisily, as from curiosity or hostility: Spectators mobbed the courtroom.
12. to attack in a riotous mob: The crowd mobbed the consulate.
13. Fox Hunting. to chop (a fox).

Surely definition 2, fits these people quite well.

 

[BobbyMac]

Mob?!?!?! It doesn't say mob in the article.

Are you kidding me?