extort

[English4everyone]

Sometimes some people attack passengers on the street with a knife / gun and threaten the poor passengers to give them their money. First what word is used to refer to these people? Second what is this action? Is it "extort"?

 

[emsr2d2]

It's an armed mugging.
The people are armed muggers.

The verb is "to mug". See the verb definitions here.