Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When you are dealing with a riot, a police officer's role really gets reduced to command, control and contain. Over the course of a career, a police officer gets involved in command and control maybe 10% of the time. The rest of the time you are responding to calls for service, whether you are dealing with disturbances, abandoned vehicles, sanitation violations or traffic control...
Throughout that evening and during the next 48 hours, Bonfante, Willwerth and seven other TIME correspondents, reporters and photographers spread out across Los Angeles to record what would become the worst U.S. rioting since the 1965 Watts disturbances. Their reporting, most of it gathered under high- adrenaline conditions, is the basis for our cover stories this week. Correspondent Jeanne McDowell, covering the antiriot mobilization at city hall, managed to grab a personal interview with Mayor Tom Bradley by posting herself near the entrance to his office there. Correspondent Sylvester Monroe, who has covered the Rodney King story throughout...
...have to riot to show our anger," read the placards. "we do not have to shout tobe heard...
...Trace must name himself after being told that his parents disappeared "without a trace". Violet stays awake nights with the memory of her mother, who threw herself into a well. And Dorcas, Joe Trace's mistress, is orphaned when her parents perish during an East St. Louis riot. Slavery has taken their mothers, and its legacy of oppression has made them reject mothering: "the important thing ... was to never never have children. Whatever happened, no small dark foot would rest no another while a mouth said Mama...
...this is a complete, hermetic world, an American world that Disney reflects and helped create. And like a pop Chartres, Euro Disney offers an overwhelming wealth of instructive ornament, commandeering the eye and the mind to ensure that visitors breathe, eat, buy and damn well dream Disney. But the riot of detail is also part of the show, maybe the best part. At other parks -- Great Adventure, Magic Mountain, Universal Studios Florida -- the rides are the attraction; with Disney, the park is the ride...