[dennisw]

No. “Lynching” is the execution of an individual for a real or false crime by a group acting without judicial sanction.>>>>>>>

The sheriff and three civilians beat the man to death. There is no judicial sanction there plus the sheriff looks like part of a lynch mob to me. A small lynch mob but with 3,000 lynching (of white, black and Indian) in our history I’m sure there have been other small lynch mobs too

[MestaMachine]

You and I know darn well lynching isn’t just hanging. When the pals lynched the two Israeli soldiers in Ramallah, they literally beat their brains out.
Having said that, Shirley Sherrod and this whole fiasco was a setup and Breitbart got scammed right into it because he reacted in anger.
Sherrod is a racist to the soles of her feet and so is her hubby. Now she gets a free pass and the naalcp and the aboministration is loving every minute of this.
This article is just stupid. It isn’t just stupid. It’s ridiculous, as if the author is grasping at straws to make a point that doesn’t even exist.
There is a LOT we can do to counter Sherrod and the left on this march to hell, but this ain’t one of them.

[driftdiver]

How does any of this change the fact Sherrod is a admitted racist and the NAACP laughed with her?

[Brad from Tennessee]

Sorry I wasn't more precise in my reply. When I said “No” I referred to “Couldn’t Sherrod’s use of the term ‘lynch’ be considered a colloquial usage?” Sherrod would be using the legal and accepted form of the word rather than a colloquialism. There's no doubt, according to the documents, the victim was lynched.