[Drew68]

Long article about the increase in various amateur investigative and quasi-vigilante organizations and their rising popularity on social media.

[alstewartfan]

A predator hanging himself. What’s the problem? Sounds like good news, unless I missed something.

[lastchance]

The article is trying to make readers feel a connection with a predator of underage (teen) boys. Expect more articles along these lines. Age of consent laws have long been a sticking point with many gays. The MSM will join in the attempt to garner sympathy, painting such predators as mentors and even protectors of “gay” youth. Many saw this coming.

[MeganC]

“Long article about the increase in various amateur investigative and quasi-vigilante organizations and their rising popularity on social media.”

People are getting frustrated and fed up by the inaction of too many law enforcement agencies and worse, their sometimes active protection of criminals such as illegal aliens.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Technically, is this legal? There is always the “Lead us not unto temptation” clause. Even formal police stings are quite cautious nowadays.

As C. S. Lewis put it, playing the role of Satan is not to break God’s plan — God already knew — however, it’s also to earn Satan’s wages.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

This is what happens when there is no justice: people take matters into their own hands.

As far as NBC is concerned, well, how many times have they aided and abetted pedophiles and pedophilia.

[Secret Agent Man]

Hope they get some female predators too. Equality.

[an amused spectator]

After an inquiry from NBC News, Facebook temporarily suspended several predator hunter accounts, removed some individual posts and deleted at least one group entirely. Some groups voluntarily removed their own pages to escape what they saw as a purge. POPSquad appeared to be unaffected.

FascistBook, protectin' the Kiddie Diddlers.

[2banana]

If you thinking you are chatting with a woman online, it is a man

If you are chatting with an underaged girl/boy, it is the police

[Lurkinanloomin]

Malcolm honked twice as he sped away, driving 30 minutes back home to his parents’ house in Torrington, where he hanged himself.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Sparing untold numbers of children from a predator.

Happy ending.

[relictele]

many law enforcement officers object to the groups and consider them dangerous vigilantes

Because cops running radar and taking doggies to elementary school is embarrassingly ineffective 'police work.'

[GraceG]

[ Long article about the increase in various amateur investigative and quasi-vigilante organizations and their rising popularity on social media. ]

According to Hollyweird vigilantism is a good thing right? Crime drama Movies from the mid 80 till now....

The reason this sort of thing us picking up steam is due to the government using law enforcement as “revenue collection” agents and harassing “joe citizen” for a speeding ticket and using civil asset forfeiture seizure and structuring laws to steal from hard working small business owners and seniors.

Can’t say I blame the spirit of the vigilante in a era of state law enforcement “effective anarchy” and self interest.

[Tax-chick]

“It wasn’t even people our age,” added Marielle Franco, 20, another friend. “It was like people my mom’s age.”

Do people Marielle's age think trolling the internet for underage sex partners is okay?

Honestly, I don't want to know.

[pfflier]

What a load of crap though. The headline implied something other than " he hanged himself."

[relictele]

Steven Kohm, a cultural criminologist at the University of Winnipeg.

aka a lefty

“Criminal justice used to be emotional and participatory,” Kohm said. “Over the last 100 years, it’s become mostly hidden and dominated by professionals.

Professionals like Jim Comey? Jim Clapper? Loretta Lynch? Janet Reno?

People are yearning to reconnect with the punitive emotional core of the justice system.

Not really. We'd just like to the see the law applied equally and for the most dangerous among us to get the bulk of the police's time rather than the other way round.

Kohm linked the hunters to the popularity of internet sleuthing, at a time of deep mistrust in authority. It appears to be the same impulse that fueled Qanon, "pizzagate" and other popular conspiracy theories obsessively “investigated” by online groups.

Ah, it's the old nuts-and-sluts defense, a favorite of the Clintons. Those are internet message boards. These are live pedophiles caught on video. Big difference unless you're an ivory tower type attempting to conflate the two

“It’s a mob-justice vigilante mentality

And who were the vigilantes? Everyday people who saw police corruption and inaction and decided that 'law enforcement' wasn't fit for purpose. Today is no different.

[Repeat Offender]

he wholly subscribed to the idea of the American dream.

Ah yes! The American dream. A car, a house, 2.1 children, white picket fence.........and buggering underage boys you preyed upon on the Internet.

[Seruzawa]

The POPsquads should check into the author of this article. They should also look at the cops who are so incensed about “vigilanteism”.

[Palio di Siena]

Dude hung himself over a microaggression

[wardaddy]

Batty man fi dead

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Malcolm was also gay...a disease-ridden, child-molesting whackjob...which was difficult growing up in a religious family in Torrington, a sleepy former mill town in the northwest part of the state

[Future Snake Eater]

Malcolm was tall and handsome. The oldest son of Jamaican immigrants, he wholly subscribed to the idea of the American dream.

Ohhhh....

*also a homosexual thinking he was going to have sex with a 14-year old boy*

Oh.