No, it's actually a somewhat common way to deal with problem people in Mexican culture.Mason4Assassin444 wrote:
You have to be a cold mofo to set someone on fire. Thats mafia revenge type shit there.
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http://www.geocities.com/jonclark500/we … chive.htmlNow as the hours wore on, the incensed crowd--which included many young people and women--became even more emboldened when they saw federal and local police agencies make no move to rescue the captive cops. Crews from both Televisa and TV Azteca arrived and were given safe conduct through the mob to interview the police officers, now barely conscious from the beatings. The TV cameras would hang around to record the double lynching in real time.
Around 9:30pm, with the church bells peeling joyously--"It was like a celebration," an incredulous deputy chief of police, Damian Canales, recalls--someone went for the gasoline, and two of the victims were doused with it and set afire. "They were ripping the charred meat from the corpses," Canales testified.
In Santa Rosa Xochiac in the State of Mexico a mob hog-tied and beat a woman, then almost burned her alive when a local butcher claimed she had caught the woman grabbing money from a cash drawer at her shop. The cops showed up just in time to save her from the bonfire.
In San Pablo Oztotepec outside of Mexico City, residents beat two suspected car thieves unconscious. A local prosecutor stepped in and saved them from being bludgeoned to death.
In San Mateo Tlaltenango, also outside of Mexico City, a mob set fire to a patrol car after a drunken policeman rammed into two taxis and then tried to drive away.
A crowd in the Cuajimalpa precinct of the capital beat a policeman unconscious after he lost control of his patrol car, killing one person. The cop was rescued, but the crowd still managed to burn his vehicle.
A man in Yucatan state was doused with gasoline and nearly set on fire after a crowd accused him of arson.