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After reading the mob mentality pieces, I conclude mobs thought it was okay to torture black people whenever they want to. To illustrate, Beitler’s photograph shows, a mob out in the open lynching two black people. Since they are doing the lynchings out in the open, the mob was not afraid of getting caught. Everyone in the picture are in their street clothes, so that could show they were okay with other people seeing they were participating in the lynching. Another idea that supports this conclusion is, in the article How Riots Work, the author points out, “Being part of a group can destroy people’s inhibitions, making them do things they’d never do otherwise ”(Edmonds). That quote shows people think it is okay to do an


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