Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrive. Between 6 and 8, trucks brought 3,000 blue-uniformed agents de ville, armed with revolvers and batons, and khaki-clad Gardes Mobiles in steel helmets, carrying rifles. Nearby subway stations were closed and guarded by groups of cops from the Service d'Ordre, the dreaded riot squad of the Prefecture of Police; under their capes they hid Tommy guns...
...clock the Communists had lost the battle. An envoy came from party headquarters and ordered the demonstrators to evacuate. The ringleaders retired immediately; the police continued to scuffle with laggards, but by 10 France's worst riot since the war was over...
...They talk about us treating the nigger bad in the South. Why, in Chicago 20 years ago, they killed more Negroes in one riot than we have killed in the South since Reconstruction. In Detroit three years ago, they killed 300 niggers. They said they killed 30, but I have the figures...
...people unaccustomed to it. There is no fear of arbitrary police action. This is not true in the Soviet zone." A British observer was sarcastic: "Germans in the American zone now understand that, by & large, their first and only duty is to cause no trouble, feed themselves without a riot, and get on with the business of living any way they can. The other term for that is, I suppose, 'the American way of life...
...near free-for-all Yard riot, precipitated by taunting high school youths and water-throwing Freshmen, was broken up at 11:30 o'clock last night by Yard police, who dispersed an angry crowd congregated around the south entrance of Thayer Hall. In addition the police rescued a Strans Hall proctor from possible mob violence...