In 1952, A group of farmers "arrested" the town's sheriff while he was attempting to evict a widow from her farm at the behest of a local insurance company.

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FalcorFallacy on July 5th, 2021 at 16:48 UTC »

When the Ziegenhardt sister looked out of the window that morning and saw all of the police cars, she rushed to the telephone. Within minutes, nearly two dozen farmers had arrived and the Ziegenhardt brothers let them inside the fort. The men leaned on the fence and heckled police. Meanwhile phones were ringing off the hook across the county, and other farmers jumped in their trucks and raced to the fort. - Story

idolatrous on July 5th, 2021 at 18:51 UTC »

This is similar to the story of how we got the verb boycott. Captain Charles Boycott was an Irish land agent tasked with evicting farm tenants when a harvest was low in 1880. The workers decided to ostracise him and refused to interact - stable hands wouldn't help with his horses, post workers refused to deliver his post. He was stopped from doing his job by non-violent means. Such means became known as the verb 'to boycott'

Sandman1031 on July 5th, 2021 at 20:58 UTC »

In the Great Depression, there were things called Penny Auctions. When a property was foreclosed on, the bank would hold an auction on the property. The locals would show up, guns in hand, and threatened anyone who would dare bid on it. The family that had been foreclosed on would pay very little to get their property back free and clear.