mob justice

Example Sentences

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But those who opposed the move said it sets a worrying new standard for short-circuiting due process and delivering a form of mob justice.

From Washington Times • Dec. 3, 2023

He was a victim of mob justice, the self-pitying Newman went on — making a plea for sympathy akin to an arsonist expressing outrage his shoes were dampened by firefighters.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2021

“There will be no mob justice today! Trust in the law,” Reeves says, as the boy in the audience says the words with him, smiling.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

He says that he is innocent, and that the same university that found him “not responsible” has now abdicated its own responsibility, letting mob justice overrule its official procedures.

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2014

And as though the horror of Borg's end were not enough, to be considered the murderer, and haled up for mob justice!

From A Daughter of the Snows by London, Jack