Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Augmented by youths from a second high school game in Cambridge, the mob sent at least seven persons, including two Cambridge policemen, to the hospital...
...strikes me that in the proper protection of the life and safety of our citizens and our guests within the geographical confines of our City," DeGuglielmo continued in the letter, "their life and liberty must be protected from displays of mob violence...
...authorities in the Boston School System, so far as I have been able to determine, make no attempt to supervise this large mob which they foisted upon the citizens of Cambridge," DeGuglielmo's letter said...
Repulsed by police with staves, the mob stormed the headquarters of All India Radio, invaded other nearby government buildings and residences, including the home of Congress Party President K. Kamaraj Nadar (he escaped through a back door). Other demonstrators set fire to 56 cars and buses and 26 motor scooters. In desperation, the police broke out rifles, began firing down Parliament Street to frighten away the rioters. In the melee, eight persons were killed, 111 injured...
...seem to have all the answers." Finally giving up, he shouted: "When I was a student at Berkeley, I was both tougher and more courteous than you are today." While some students continued to hoot, others yelled for quiet. Cops formed a wedge to lead McNamara through the mob, then took him away through underground food tunnels. In his wake, scuffles broke out between his defenders and detractors...