Mob Violence

1. Mob violence is where a crowd is selective in their choice of a victim and target. Also, a mob can be seen as a crowd that can be out of control and is waiting for a trigger to set them off. But they are also making a rational attempt to prevent or accomplish some type of social change. This type of group violence exists because they are trying to get a point across to people and make their point heard. One example of mob violence is lynching, which is an extralegal execution by a mob. Another example is a riot which includes three or more people and they use violence or force because of a reaction to a trigger and an example of one can be the Boston Massacre.

2. Two families fighting in Perry County Alabama caused a full scale riot outside a small-town city hall. There was 150 people from the families screaming at each other and throwing tire irons and baseball bats at one another. Supposedly, the two families have been fighting for a couple years and the riot began with a fight at the high school earlier in the day after a window was shot out of a home the night before. During the initial fight at the high school, two people were arrested and then relatives of the people arrested followed them to town hall and that is when everything erupted. Once the riot settled down, six more people were arrested and the police had to call for backup from surrounding cities to help control the crowd. According to police, the families are pointing fingers at each other not placing the blame on just one person or group. It almost sounds like the police are the victims from the media standpoint since a couple of them were injured and even the town since a college told people to stay out of downtown for 24 hours to keep them safe. I feel like the societal conditions were pretty normal since it is such a small town and this family just made the town erupt with violence out of no where.

3. This is the ad that the state department spent $70,000 on to try and calm the riots in Pakistan over the anti-Islam film made in the US. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are seen in the ad saying that they don't condone this video and that the American Government had nothing to do with it.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/20/state-department-spending-70g-on-pakistan-ads-denouncing-anti-islam-film/

This is a video from the Sherrif of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin and he is trying to get a PSA across about protecting yourself. He talks about using self-defense because you can't always rely on the police since they are being laid off so much lately. He also talks about people taking a firearm safety course which is causing all types of problems. There are people out in the community who are saying he is making people become vigilantes since he is telling them to do it themselves (taking the law into their own hands) and that they are now "partners."

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/26/video-milwaukee-country-sheriffs-psa-on-self-protection/