Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the seizure of University Hall in April of 1969, Hall he was a "sympathetic" witness "that got too close to the action" as the building was being cleared by the police riot force...
...standing on the steps of a freshman dorm when he was "accosted by some five or six riot police holding 'Nigger sticks'...poised and raised for the downward swing," he says...
Calling in the Riot Force...
Dressed in riot gear, the police officersbarreled through groups of students that hadsurrounded the building...
Students in University Hall joined hands in anattempts to block the entrances, but the policeknocked back the protesters with billy clubs,beginning a sweeping attack that many latercondemned as a police riot...