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Several potentially violent episodes after the rally never got off the ground. The White House and Lafayette Park across the street were sealed off by a cordon of empty buses. Demonstrators let the air out of some bus tires, and tried unsuccessfully to tip over one of the buses...
Youths shouting "Seig Heil" pushed a coffin over the bus cordon, near the Executive Office Building, while two blocks away demonstrators sat in the street blocking traffic and threw bottles at police...
...week, Rojas quickly claimed victory-but then so did Pastrana. When Lleras Restrepo announced that the close vote would take several days to tally, Rojas charged "bald robbery," and thousands of Rojistas swarmed into Bogota's main intersection. Lleras Restrepo declared a state of siege and threw a cordon of troops around Rojas' house as "protection." After a few tense hours, well-trained riot police managed to clear the streets with no fatalities and few injuries. At week's end Pastrana led by 66,000 votes. The slim margin surprised those who had speculated that the slow...
Also before midnight, three students carrying a conscious but injured boy to Stillman Infiimary in Holyoke Center were let through the police cordon on Holyoke St. Within 15 yards of the infirmary entrance, they were stopped by about six police, according to the students. one of whom shoved his club into the injured boy's groin. The group ran into the infirmary, dragging the boy with them...
...yellow Ford tried to leave the empty Square, police formed a cordon forcing the car to a halt. A dozen police opened the doors, pulled out the driver, and beat and kicked him before letting him walk...