Ask the guy who is lying in the hospital how "small" the mob was.
Mob: a large crowd of people, especially one that is disorderly and intent on causing trouble or violence.
Do you consider five people a “large crowd?”
My comment was not to imply that the people attacking him shouldn’t be punished. Simply that the writer of the article is an idiot. Any group that travels around in a mini-van is not a mob.