Mexican president defends police after mob lynching

Mexico’s president has refused to blame the country’s police force after a mob attacked a suspected child killer last Thursday. The woman, along with two men, was suspected of kidnapping and killing an 8-year-old girl, sparking fury among locals. A group of protesters surrounded the woman’s house, threatening to drag her out. Police intervened and moved the woman into a truck, but then appeared to stand back as the mob dragged the woman from the truck onto the street, where they kicked and beat her. Afterwards, police took the woman’s motionless body away, and she was confirmed to have died from her injuries. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador addressed the incident on Tuesday, after a journalist asked him if the police had been overwhelmed by the mob. Obrador replied that the police couldn’t have done anything, and that it was very difficult to maintain order in such situations.