Trump compares impeachment probe to ‘lynching,’ once again creating political firestorm around race – The Washington Post

Lynching, the extrajudicial murder of an untried suspect, usually by a mob and often by hanging, has a unique history in the United States because of its direct link to slavery and racism. In the United States, more than 4,700 lynchings were recorded between 1882 and 1968, according to the NAACP. Of those murdered people, almost three quarters were black men, women and children. An untold number of runaway slaves were lynched after being captured.