Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reports Photographer Bailey: "One problem was that the mobs weren't exactly anxious to have their pictures taken showing them looting. They didn't want the cops to look at the press later and say, 'Oh, there's that guy.' I would say things like, 'Beautiful baby, beautiful . . . Man, where is the next action?' And usually I'd get by." But Kane and Bailey had a few close calls under sniper fire. At one point Bailey was hit in the back by a brick and his camera was taken away...
Rocks and bottles flew. Looting, at first dared by only a few, became a mob delirium as big crowds now gathered, ranging through the West Side, then spilling across Woodward Avenue into the East Side. Arsonists lobbed Molotov cocktails at newly pillaged stores. Fires started in the shops, spread swiftly to homes and apartments. Snipers took up posts in windows and on rooftops. For four days and into the fifth, mobs stole, burned and killed as a force of some 15,000 city and state police, National Guardsmen and federal troops fought to smother the fire. The city was almost...
...glass are the robust sounds of fresh life, the cries of something newborn." In Detroit, they proved to be-with the rattling of gunfire-the sounds of death. Throughout the Detroit riot there was-as in Newark-a spectacularly perverse mood of gaiety and light-hearted abandon in the mob-a "carnival spirit," as a shocked Mayor Cavanagh called it, echoing the words used by New Jersey's Governor Richard Hughes after he toured stricken Newark three weeks...
Speaking in Boston at the 44th annual convention of the nation's Mayors, Humphrey said that "there can be no freedom, no equal opportunity, no social justice, in an environment of mob rule and criminal behavior...
...Vernon, N.Y. -- A ban on liquor and a curfew were imposed after two nights of mob disorder...