vigilante justice
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"In a civil society, we are all less safe when ideologues engage in vigilante justice."
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2024
And who can forget Run-D.M.C.’s quest for vigilante justice in 1988’s “Tougher Than Leather”?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
In the vacuum, Cowie explains, emerged “the neoslavery of convict leasing, the vigilante justice of lynching, the degradation and debt of sharecropping and the official disenfranchisement of Blacks” under Jim Crow.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
These laws fostered a kind of vigilante justice, in which citizens could police the electoral behavior of others in the name of preventing fraudulent voting.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2022
Police departments and the people who are responsible for public safety need to not enable vigilante justice.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2021
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