Word: rioting
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...said in a Feb. 20 Washington Post story. "They wrote what they wanted, what would get more papers sold. Our intention was to give up guns, to get some jobs, to better ourselves. They portrayed us as hard-core criminal gang members who are ready to incite a riot...
...Times news story, headlined "job Opportunities Bring out Young people (and their Idealism) in Riot Area," and subsequent editorial pointed out that, although the jobs involved a two-hour commute from South-Central L.A., more than 600 people turned out to interview for them...
Peter MacDonald's 14-year effort to build an independent Navajo Nation for America's largest Indian tribe was hobbled by repeated run-ins with the law. His latest setback: a 14 1/2-year sentence from a Phoenix federal judge for his role in a 1989 riot at the tribe's Window Rock, Arizona, headquarters, where two of his supporters were killed. MacDonald, 64, will serve the term concurrently with previous sentences: five years from a 1992 federal racketeering case and seven years from a 1990 case in which he was convicted by a tribal court of accepting kickbacks and bribes...
...done in so little time. Referring to the violence that shattered Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict, he preferred to call it a "revolt," knowing full well that the word expressed a more powerful image of response to racial repression than the term most commonly used, "riot." On the other hand, he earned the outrage of many black coaches and educators by supporting a proposition that requires minimum standards of academic performance in exchange for athletic eligibility. Many African- American athletes fell below that threshold. But Ashe also realized the role in which numerous black college athletes are cast...
Williams staged what amounted to a dress rehearsal for full-scale riot control in December when 300 officers quelled a random looting and rock- throwing melee at the corner of Florence and Normandie, where last spring's violence broke out. Moving swiftly, the cops cordoned off the area and made 60 arrests. To assert control without using clubs, some officers carried newly acquired 37-mm gas guns that shoot foam-rubber bullets...