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    6 days ago

    “Literally lynched”

    lynched verb Simple past tense and past participle of lynch.


    lynch
    /lĭnch/

    transitive verb
    To punish (a person) without legal process or authority, especially by hanging, for a perceived offense or as an act of bigotry.
    To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See lynch law.
    verb
    To execute (somebody) without a proper legal trial or procedure, especially by hanging.

    Sure… If you absolutely stretch the word to its barest of meanings, he received punishment without law. But he wasn’t lynched by any sane person’s understanding of the word. What an attention seeking little cry baby.