Word: mobbing
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...wearing coats and ties at dinner.In the decade following its construction, Quincy’s sixth floor balcony became a place for staging rallies, according to Busch. “Our causes weren’t exactly noble,” Busch said, recalling Quincy students leading a mob of 1,500 undergraduates in the yard to protest the administration’s 1960 decision to transition from papyrus diplomas in Latin to paper certificates in English. As the first residents established a fledgling House culture, Quincy’s underlying diversity continued to form the basis of its identity...
...this year, for the fourth time in a row since Cronulla, violent nationalism came to the fore. The flag - my flag - was the emblem of choice for drunken nationalist outbursts across the nation; in Wollongong, south of Sydney, Australia Day violence was the worst police had ever seen, with mobs of drunken, flag-clad teenagers brawling in the streets. In Manly, in north Sydney, an 80-strong flag-waving mob harassed and assaulted nonwhite passers-by and shop owners, jumped on cars and chanted "Aussie pride...
Afghanistan is in an uproar following U.S. airstrikes that may have killed more than 100 civilians in the western part of the country. Reports from Farah province said that on Thursday a mob of several hundred protesters chanted anti-American slogans and threw rocks outside at provincial governor's office before being disbursed by police gunfire. In Kabul, outraged lawmakers called for new laws to clamp down on foreign military operations. Ahead of talks with President Obama in Washington, Afghan President Hamid Karzai bluntly said the deaths were "unjustifiable and unacceptable...
...think Lee Harvey Oswald had this big a crowd trailing him." - On the mob that surrounded him following his announcement that he was leaving the Republican Party to become a Democrat (Politico, April...
...Monday, the court ruled on a petition filed by Jakia Nasim Ahesan, the widow of Ehsan Jafri, a legislator belonging to the Congress Party who was killed along with 38 people by a mob at his home in Ahmadabad, Gujarat's largest city. Ahesan accused Modi and 62 others of hatching a "well-executed and sinister criminal conspiracy" to effect a "deliberate and intentional failure" of the state government to protect the life and property of its citizens. Says New Delhi-based political analyst Amulya Ganguli: "Modi tried his best to scuttle the investigation - some 2,000 cases were closed...