The (unlawful) retaliation for an injustice that the affected person carries out himself.
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Examples for "street justice"
Examples for "street justice"
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He liked to refer to it as ' street justice'.
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Some instant street justice keeps everyone on their toes.
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Most bystanders pretend not to notice, accustomed to this sort of " street justice".
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A few days later, someone shot him in the face-probablyas an act of revenge or street justice, police theorize.
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Foster thought this was frontier justice and urged another objection.
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Quinn, a passionate advocate for the mentally ill, and Bo, the defense attorney with a unique sense of frontier justice.
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They threw at and near batters regularly with a frontier justice mentality, the kind of machismo that mostly had disappeared from the game.
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"I'll settle for frontier justice and getting the hell away."