That is what happened when lawlessness reign and vigilante justice take place

A Haitian national was decapitated by an angry mob of people in the Herrera Barrio of West Santo Domingo. The crowd was set on the man as he laid down on the ground, with fists and anything they could get a hold of.

Later a well built young man wielding an Axe, cut the man's head in a single blow as the man was laying in the street's pavement.The mob cheered and approved the decapitation as the wake was taking place, some close distance from the ogreish scene, of the man the Haitian national was accused of decapitating earlier on as well as wounding a companion with a machete he handled.

According to the family, the Dominican man getting the wake, was visiting his property earlier on Friday in Bayona. Where the man owned several lots and had the Haitian caring over the fields.
As he was giving money to the worker to by food for himself, the Haitian decapitated the landowner in a single blow with his machete and tried to kill the companion as he escaped the gruesome crime being committed. The man, wounded was able to fend off his attacker and reach aid some distance away, as the Haitian fled the crime scene.

The family provided Police with the murderer's name and description, but the Police did little to follow up or give pursuit to the suspected criminal. The locals which included family members from the crime victim, whom knew the Haitian's worker identity from their visits at the lots, gave pursuit to the criminal and were bale to locate him hiding in a Haitian settlement in guajimia by a stream.

They apprehended the man the next day and instead of taking him to the local Police, the crowd demanded that the same treatment "an eye for an eye" was imparted.

As the victim's body was laid in the wake, the perpetrator was provided with what the mob called "justice".

The mob's crime was even recorded on cell phones by the cheering crowd, something the National Police is currently trying to locate in order to identify the perpetrators and impart real justice. The law of the jungle should never be allowed to rule in any instance, no matter how gruesome the crime or deeds committed by the criminal.

So the end tally is two decapitated, one seriously wounded and many that will go to jail for usurping the Law and order to their liking.

What's your take on this? Do you think street justice is OK as long the punishment fits the crime or it's just justification to commit an equal heinous crime under the pretext of justice?

To make long story short :

The Dominican landowner was decapitated first. then the Haitian was decapited second due
to reaction of the savage crime committed against a Dominican

This regrettable incident of violence is just another thermometer of the racial tensions being lived
in Dominican Republic, by the influx of Haitians and their corresponding ways to solve disputes.
As you dutifully noted the Haitian, with no apparent motive cut the head of his employer and chopped
off another bystander, with his machete.
This behavior is not typically a Dominican style of conduct and response, but it is a Haitian way of
war like conduct, exemplified in the war motto "Koupe tet, boule kay" which was the Dessalines war cry.
Dominicans reacted angrily and with much vengeance against this Haitian criminal with regrettable
consequences imitating the Haitian's actions and crying for justice, and resorted to applying the ancient law of the talion or lex talionis, where the attacker is administered similar justice he applied to his victims.

Generoso
This regrettable incident of violence is just another thermometer of the racial tensions being lived
in Dominican Republic, by the influx of Haitians and their corresponding ways to solve disputes.
As you dutifully noted the Haitian, with no apparent motive cut the head of his employer and chopped
off another bystander, with his machete.
This behavior is not typically a Dominican style of conduct and response, but it is a Haitian way of
war like conduct, exemplified in the war motto "Koupe tet, boule kay" which was the Dessalines war cry.
Dominicans reacted angrily and with much vengeance against this Haitian criminal with regrettable
consequences imitating the Haitian's actions and crying for justice, and resorted to applying the ancient law of the talion or lex talionis, where the attacker is administered similar justice he applied to his victims.


Gizmo
Is this a real story, can anyone put a link of an article to corroborate the affirmed?

I must admit, i did not do any due diligences, however it was posted by a Dominican "Prichardo" on an Haitian site, I will hold judgment until I can figure out the veracity of the source

http://www.haitixchange.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/2372/

http://www.listindiario.com/app/article.aspx?id=99867

a member of this forum post this

Story published in the Listin Diario of Sunday May 3, 2009 is as follows:

http://www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=99867

But if we deport them then we get called racist and anti-haitianismo and everything else like violator of human rights and all that. Not all haitians are like that but we are at a point where we just got to say Por uno que pagen todos and start the process of deportation. I think we have to create a voluntary police instution here so people can start to get it done themslves.

Generoso,
What do you mean by racial tensions? Do you mean ethnic? There's obviously dark Dominicans and there have always been significant numbers of mixed Haitians (and to a much lesser extent white, Arab, and other Haitians).

Tell that to CaonaboHaiti and the likes of him. Cuz' for him, every act that dominicans might commit against haitians (justified or not) have to possess the "racism" label on it.