Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country's worst race riot...
...Cops are coming!" somebody yells, 400 policement, clad in storm helmets and gas masks, armed with rifles and riot sticks, charge University Hall in systematic thrusts. State police drag bloodied protesters out of the building, where they will arrest nearly 300. "If you don't stay there I'll break your fuckin head," a cop shouts. Still the students chant. "Smash ROTC...
DIED. Emmitt Douglas, 55, civil rights activist and president of the Louisiana National Association for the Advancement of Colored People since 1968, who in 1956 initiated the lawsuit that desegregated Baton Rouge schools, and in 1971 was charged with inciting to riot during a demonstration against the shooting of two young blacks by white policemen; of a heart attack; in New Roads...
Cornell safety officers, wearing riot helmets and armed with pistols, forced their way into the president's office and ejected the students, who did not resist. Rhodes, who was not in his office at the time of the takeover, ordered the officers to eviet the students, a University spokesman said, adding that the students will be prosecuted for violating the campus code of conduct...
Suddenly, two local officials entered the room and ordered the unionists to leave. They refused-and were immediately attacked by 200 riot police. At least 26 of the 40 or so people who were in the group were beaten, some severely enough to need hospitalization. One of the most seriously injured was local Solidarity Leader Jan Rulewski...