Vigilantism means taking the law into your own hands without having legal authority. It refers to individuals or groups who act as unofficial enforcers, seeking to punish or bring justice to others outside the legal system. Full definition
For the President of the Republic to publicly condemn the acts of these groups as criminals while addressing Parliament and recently in Kumasi in the presence of the Otumfuor, Asantehene and his call on the Police Service to act, attests to the seriousness of this cancer of political vigilantism in Ghana. (ghanapoliticsonline.com)
It's a film that centers on vigilantism on the U.S. - Mexican border and deep within Mexico itself, where some citizens take up arms against the drug cartels that murder people willy - nilly, often with macabre exhibitionism. (vulture.com)
On behalf of the Advisory Board of the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO), I welcome you to this media briefing about political party vigilantism in Ghana. (citifmonline.com)