That was the day a gang of kidnappers with AK-47s burst into Lolo's seafood restaurant and tried to abduct the 17-year-old cashier. A mob of enraged residents chased down two of the teenage attackers and lynched them in a cotton field on the edge of town."
I've read this story a couple of times and just can't figure out what the washington post is upset about.
Let me put this in bold.
A mob of enraged residents chased down two of the teenage attackers and lynched them in a cotton field on the edge of town.
As a result... The kidnappings stopped.
"In Ciudad Juarez, the epicenter of violence, murder suspects seem more likely to end up dead than appear before a judge. Several days after gunmen massacred 13 people at a party there in October, two heads were found in plastic bags on the hood of a car with a note warning, "This is what happens to those who kill women and children."
It is the duty of men to step in when the government either cannot or will not protect them.
What's the problem?
I've read this story a couple of times and just can't figure out what the washington post is upset about.
Let me put this in bold.
A mob of enraged residents chased down two of the teenage attackers and lynched them in a cotton field on the edge of town.
As a result... The kidnappings stopped.
"In Ciudad Juarez, the epicenter of violence, murder suspects seem more likely to end up dead than appear before a judge. Several days after gunmen massacred 13 people at a party there in October, two heads were found in plastic bags on the hood of a car with a note warning, "This is what happens to those who kill women and children."
It is the duty of men to step in when the government either cannot or will not protect them.
What's the problem?
