mob violence
Collective vigilante assault
Mob violence is destructive or harmful action carried out by a crowd, typically spontaneous and fueled by collective anger or hysteria.
The term covers riots, lynchings, and attacks on property or persons: The protest devolved into mob violence when someone threw the first brick.
It implies loss of individual restraint within group frenzy.
- lynchingExtrajudicial killing by mob
- mob psychologyStudy of crowd behavior
- hate crimesOffenses targeting protected characteristics
- race riotViolent intergroup ethnic conflict
- hangingExecution by noose
terrorism · pogroms · scapegoating · extrajudicial · deindividuation · mass hysteria · property damage · anger · emotional contagion · loss of life · Ku Klux Klan · vigilante justice · kangaroo court · angry mob · out for blood · groupthink · mob rule · looting
- crimesarson, burglary, robbery, kidnapping, vandalism
- attacksattack, assault, raid, strike, offensive
- civil unrestriot, riots, rioting, mob, uprising
- Illinois historyAbraham Lincoln, Chicago, Springfield, Chicago Fire, Great Chicago Fire
- public disturbancesriot, disorderly conduct, brawl, disturbing the peace, breach of peace
- public offensesriot, affray, disorderly conduct, public nuisance, breach of peace
mob violencepeaceful assembly
Nonviolent group protest
nonviolent protest · peaceful demonstration · mass celebration · peace · civil disobedience
mob violencerule of law
Supremacy of established laws
civil order · due process · judicial process · lawful authority · legal proceeding
mob violencenonviolent resistance
Protest through peaceful means
violent, mobile, violence, mobilize, nonviolent, violently, mobster, mobbed, nonviolence