Word: rioted
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...news! A small group of self-proclaimed anarchists, calling themselves Funk the War, peeled away from a peaceful protest on the streets of St. Paul and erupted into violence. They pounded cars, smashed windows, hurled bottles and pushed a flaming garbage bin into a police car. Police in riot gear broke up the melee with tear gas and arrested as many as 100 people...
...morning of Aug. 29, just hours after they had been expelled from Government House, riot police armed with shields pushed their way back in. In a tacit acknowledgment that there's no easy solution to this stand-off, Samak, who has rejected the activists' calls to resign, ordered a royal event originally scheduled to take place at Government House the following day to be moved to another venue. Meanwhile, PAD protestors have set up washing lines and police have even trucked in portable toilets in an effort to keep the area clean. The grounds, though, have already been marred...
...Mayor Chris Doherty, who just wrapped a public service announcement on littering, starring himself and Office actor Brian Baumgartner (accountant Kevin Malone), agrees the show has been great for tourism. "The stars are here all the time," he says. "It's a riot. They love it." And Scranton needs all the love it can get: after the coal mining industry started to dry up in the 1950s - around the time Biden's family left for the greener pastures of Delaware - it fell into a deep depression and has only just begun to crawl out. "When the city started to decline...
...learned that the degrees they were paying for were not recognized by Beijing's Ministry of Education. Chinese employers typically will not even interview students from unaccredited universities. When word got out, outraged students went on a rampage, setting furniture on fire and trashing classrooms. According to an eyewitness, riot police had to be called in to restore order...
...World War.'' The immediate justification for the new state of emergency was the preparation for a series of strikes, demonstrations and vigils by antiapartheid groups to commemorate the tenth anniversary of a June 1976 uprising in Soweto, the sprawling township outside Johannesburg that houses some 2 million blacks. That riot touched off a year of protests in which more than 600 people died, and has become a milestone in the struggle for black rights. Two weeks ago, Law and Order Minister Louis LeGrange issued a blanket ban on all meetings commemorating the Soweto uprising. The activists, comprising hundreds of black...