dents demonstrate inhuman barbarity against human beings by Americans. In both cases, government officials and law enforcement authorities were unable or unwilling to intervene to prevent these acts of public torture. In bother cases, the mob broke laws, took the law into its own hands and acted as judge, jury and executioner without facing recriminations. In the case of the lynching of Claude Neal, 23, the Attorney General did not act on kidnapping laws because ôno ransom was involvedö and the status of Governor of Florida, David Sholtz, when appealed to for assistance, was ôout of the capital and [could] not be reached,ö (Schilb and Clifford, p. 594).
In the case of the public immolation of Lloyd Warner, the frightened African American was drug out of his cell, after fighting off the efforts of law enforcement and the Nation
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