If you’ve studied white supremacist lynch mobs then what we are seeing is devastatingly familiar - including the defiance vs. law enforcement. When the MD Gov called the National Guard to arrest the men who lynched George Armwood in 1933 another mob formed to challenge the Guard. 
This stand-off is in the town of Salisbury, MD a month after Armwood was lynched. The mob even turned a fire hose on the the Guardsman who were there to arrest the suspected lynchers of Armwood. This is what lynch mobs were like. Are like.
Is it still a lynch mob if they don’t succeed in lynching? Yes. I wrote about the near-lynching of George Davis in 1932. Lynch mobs went to 4 different county jails on the Eastern Shore of MD looking for him after a white woman alleged Davis attempted to assault her.
Davis survived only because he had been taken to #Baltimore City. Those who stormed the Capitol hoping to lynch Speaker Pelosi & VP Pence should be treated as members of a lynch mob. Or they will do it again. Just a few miles away Armwood was lynched a year after Davis escaped.
On The Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century. amazon.com/Courthouse-Law…
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