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Vigilante Justice Rises in Haiti and Crime Plummets

Postby jdege on Mon Jun 05, 2023 9:50 pm

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/03/world/americas/haiti-crime-gangs-vigilantes.html
Vigilante Justice Rises in Haiti and Crime Plummets
Civilians have killed at least 160 gang members in Haiti, a human rights group says. Residents say they feel safer, but others worry that it will lead to even more violence.
The 14 presumed gang members under arrest were arriving at a police station in Haiti’s capital, when a group of people overpowered the police, rounded up the suspects outside and used gasoline to burn them alive.

The gruesome executions on April 24 marked the start of a brutal vigilante campaign to reclaim the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, from gangs that have inflicted terror on Haitians for nearly two years.

In a nation wracked by extreme poverty and violence, civilians have taken up arms and killed at least 160 people believed to be gang members in the six weeks since a citizens “self-defense” movement known as “bwa kale” kicked off its vigilantism with the brazen police station attack, according to data gathered in a new report by a prominent Haitian human rights group.

The result: a sharp drop in kidnappings and killings attributed to gangs in neighborhoods where people told The New York Times they had been afraid to leave their homes.

If Soros' DAs continue to prevent the prosecution and imprisonment of the criminal gangs infesting our own cities, we'll see this here...
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Re: Vigilante Justice Rises in Haiti and Crime Plummets

Postby Sorcerer on Tue Jun 06, 2023 7:33 am

Some of our gangs are doing this for us already. Eating them selves.
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Re: Vigilante Justice Rises in Haiti and Crime Plummets

Postby jdege on Tue Jun 06, 2023 7:48 am

If you look into the history of vigilantes movements, they often inspire competing movements.

The Regulators vs the Moderators, in South Carolina, for example.
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Re: Vigilante Justice Rises in Haiti and Crime Plummets

Postby Holland&Holland on Tue Jun 06, 2023 2:49 pm

jdege wrote:If you look into the history of vigilantes movements, they often inspire competing movements.

The Regulators vs the Moderators, in South Carolina, for example.

Regulators, mount up.
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