Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Owner of the Harvard Book Store Frank Kramer remembers watching student protests, storm troopers coming to break up a riot, and "people [on the street] going up and down, breaking windows, left and right...
Other protests did not end so peacefully. Just two days before the 1972 takeover, anti-war demonstrators marched to the Center for International Affairs building on Divinity Avenue in Cambridge. The protestors ransacked the building, breaking windows and causing over $20,000 in damages. A squad of 50 riot police ended the protest by using tear gas to clear the Square of protestors...
Around 3 a.m., students got word that thepolice were massing for attack. Most collected onthe first floor, packed shoulder to shoulder inthe hallways. Then police wearing riot helmetsbegan to batter down the door, removing the chainwith a special...
...police were required to do crowd control even before University Hall was cleared. One of those doing crowd control April 9 was Doherty, who was a part of Somerville police's Tactical Police Force (TPF), a unit specially trained in riot control...
...China from spinning into chaos. But that slant requires a selective recall. The movement was initially a peaceful call for reform. But Deng Xiaoping didn't get that. Soon after the demonstrations began, he ordered the People's Daily to tar the movement as "a planned conspiracy" and "a riot," transforming China's idealistic young into enemies of the state. With that error, Deng lost the ability to compromise...