Did you mean vigilantes? If so, according to Random House, a vigilante is a individual or group attempting to enforce law and punish offenders without legal authority. For example, if I saw you liter and kicked you for littering, then I enacted vigilante justice instead of calling the cops.
He got beaten by vigilanties who thought he assaulted Tamika. He lived and in the end of the book he carried on in life busting an awesome poem. He laughed at the night.