Following artistic success and critical acclaim in the American independent film community, he achieved mainstream renown with his far-East philosophical crime film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, shot in Jersey City and starring Forest Whitaker as a young inner-city man who has found purpose for his life by unyieldingly conforming it to the Hagakure, an 18th-century philosophy text and training manual for samurai, becoming, as directed, a terrifyingly deadly hit-man for a local mob boss to whom he may owe a debt, and who then betrays him.

* 1837 – In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.

The mob shot and killed at least one white man in the confusion.

After escaping the city, he was trapped along the Elkhorn River, where the mob, including several policemen from Omaha, shot him more than twenty times.

* In 1881, a mob lynched an outlaw who by the nickname of Big Nose George, who shot two local law enforcement officers years before.

It is believed that Gordon was first to be shot by the mob, which had surrounded the crash site.

A white mob attacked the Landry family, lynching the parents and hunting down their son, who escaped after nearly being shot.

The mob took Richardson from Riley and shot the suspect.

The mob shot and hanged each of the four.

* On the night of April 24, 1959, Mack Charles Parker, an African-American accused of rape, was abducted from the Pearl River County jail in Poplarville by a mob and shot to death.

* In the movie Casino, two scenes were shot at the Fair Lawn Fire Department Company 3: a scene in which a female reporter talks about the mob members and the scene which immediately follows.

Richard Dixon was shot to death and then hung from a pole on the corner of Fountain and Main Street, where the mob continued to shoot his lifeless body.

He was shot dead and buried that same day, but an angry mob disinterred his corpse and dragged it through the streets of Baghdad, where it was hung up, burned and mutilated.

On the contrary, on 28 May, when the inhabitants and fighters of the Old City surrendered, in fear for their lives, the Transjordanian Arab Legion protected them from the mob and even wounded or shot dead other Arabs.

King found a mob of Yandruwandha willing to give him food and shelter and in return he shot birds to contribute to their supplies.

They were mostly shot down as they were retiring, and of those who surrendered about 60 were massacred by the mob as they were being taken under escort to the Hotel de Ville.

Lovejoy and his supporters exchanged gunfire with the mob, which fatally shot him.

The mob put up the ladder again ; when Lovejoy and Weller went out to overturn it, they were spotted and shot.

* On the ABC airing of this cartoon, the part where Daffy is shot in the head by Rocky after confessing that he hasn't laid any eggs is replaced with a repeat shot of the mob members playing cards and reading magazines ( from earlier in the cartoon ).

Bensonhurst was stereotyped as a haven for Mafia members ( Gus Farace, a reputed mob associate suspected of murdering a federal drug-enforcement agent, was found shot to death in a parked car there on November 17, 1989, and two years later the neighborhood provided the setting for the mob-themed film Out for Justice starring Steven Seagal & is known as the hometown of notorious soap opera Hospital mobster, Sonny Cortinthos.

However, after accepting a bribe to throw a penalty shot, resulting in a tragic end to his career, his leg is brutally broken by a mob of " disgruntled " supporters, who were in fact hired by Hung, the man who gave Fung the bribe.

A confrontation ensued and two white election officials were shot, after which a white mob destroyed Ocoee's black community, causing as many as 30 deaths, and destroying 25 homes, two churches, and a Masonic Lodge.

Reports conflict about who shot first, but after two members of the mob approached the house, someone opened fire.

On April 14, 1906, a mob broke into the town jail, then lynched two black men: Horace Duncan and Fred Coker, for allegedly sexually assaulting Mina Edwards, a white woman.

Following the attack, an angry mob mutilated and burned the bodies, dragging them through the streets before they were hung on a bridge.

Their religious leader, Rabbi Yomtob, proposed an act of collective suicide to avoid being killed by the mob, and the castle was set on fire to prevent their bodies being mutilated after their deaths.

They were attacked by a mob that quickly killed them all as they were trying to escape into the prison, then mutilated the bodies, " with circumstances of barbarity too shocking to describe " according to the British diplomatic dispatch.

He was a son of General Vicente Quesada, a Conservative officer who was murdered and atrociously mutilated in the streets of Madrid by a revolutionary mob in the early days of Queen Isabella's reign.

Mr. Fisher was later examined by Sheriff Sanders and County Health Officer Taylor, who found that the mob had sheared off Mr. Fisher ’ s ears, slit his lips, and mutilated his genitals.

Madame de Ventimille's corpse was sent to Lit-the-Parade in the town of Versailles, but during the night, a mob broke in and mutilated the body of " the king's whore ".

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

A Christian mob possibly led by parabalani, however, grabbed Hypatia out of her chariot and brutally murdered her, hacking her body apart and burning the pieces outside the city walls.

* In 1917 the body of Rasputin, the Russian mystic, was exhumed from the ground by a mob and burned with gasoline.

* In 1918 the body of Lavr Kornilov, the Russian general, was exhumed from the ground by a pro-Bolshevik mob, beaten, trampled down and burned.

After Myrtle's body was found, Smith continued life as usualneeded, but upon hearing a mob was after him, he fled to Hope, Arkansas.

Today lynching is a felony in all states of the United States, defined by some codes of law as " Any act of violence inflicted by a mob upon the body of another person which results in the death of the person ," with a " mob " being defined as " the assemblage of two or more persons, without color or authority of law, for the premeditated purpose and with the premeditated intent of committing an act of violence upon the person of another.

" Lynching in the second degree is defined as " Any act of violence inflicted by a mob upon the body of another person and from which death does not result.

In the middle of the night, the mob stormed the jail and lynched Shaw, leaving his hanging body to be found the next day.

As the mob of terrified cavalry stampeded past them, the exhausted Austrian infantry of the main body lost heart, provoking a wild rush to the rear.

Eighteen American soldiers were killed, and a US television crew filmed graphic images of the body of one soldier being dragged through the streets by an angry mob.

Some members of the mob cut off pieces of his dead body as souvenirs.

She grieved over his body publicly and dragged it through the streets of Rome which, due to his popularity, incited an angry mob that took his corpse and cremated it in the senate.

The body of Wilson was cut down against the wishes of the mob, and the ensuing riot was such that the hangman had to be placed in protective custody.

The body of Wilson was cut down against the wishes of the mob, and the ensuing riot was such that the hangman had to be placed in protective custody.

In 1562, a mob of Huguenots in France broke open his tomb and found his body incorrupt.

It is even hinted that Sophia herself has done mob work ; she once stated that no one in her family had " ever left a body to be found ".

He was rescued from an angry mob by the police, who arrested him for what they believed was the illegal disposal of a corpse, and the body of his son, which had not yet been engulfed by the flames, was removed from the pyre.

This he did in a singularly frank, independent and courageous spirit, with no private ambition to serve, or party cause to advance, but with an honest desire to expose the iniquity or incompetence of the governing body, the sordid aims of the middle class, and the corruption and venality of the city mob.

He too is then hunted by a vengeful mob in the same forest, where he converses with his lover's beautiful, but dead and rotting, body.

He wanders out of the house, distraught, in the evening, and goes back into town, where he sees Goodwin's dead body burning in a gasoline bonfire ; he has been dragged out of jail, tortured and lynched by an angry mob.

At his advice, that October the FBI revisited the Queens mob graveyard where Alphonse Indelicato's body was found, and unearthed the bodies of Trinchera and Giaccone as well.