He's been arrested for mugging'.

A small industrial town where a passerby has summoned the police to a mugging in a dirty alley.

I actually have very little cash in my wallet right now, if any of you are thinking of mugging me.

Maybe they exaggerated their style because they thought that they were not considered to be quite civilized, and they transferred that generational attitude or anxiety onto us, the next generation, so much so that when I was growing up, if ever on the television news or radio a report came up about a black person committing some crime a mugging, a murder, a burglary we winced along with our parents, because they were letting the side down.