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He added that he was "neither a rapist nor a predator" and lamented that it was his word against the "trial by media and lynching" that he faced.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2025

In spite of all that, Diddy's mother recently defended her son on Sunday and accused the media and others of engaging in a "public lynching."

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2024

The law makes lynching a federal hate crime.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2023

He also said that signing the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, which made lynching a federal hate crime, in March 2022, was “one of the great honors of my career.”

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2023

Then again, I also understood that Kathy was only doing what students of my generation had done to help end lynching.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson