Word: rioting
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...gangs of black youths who were menacing black and white passersby. The bullyboys turned on the cops and stewards, showering them with stones, bricks and bottles. Then an order went out: "Move forward! Plenty of noise, lads." Phalanxes of goggled police, whooping and beating their 5-ft. plastic riot shields with batons, charged through mobs of petrified teenagers. When the battle ended half an hour later, the day's injuries totaled 233, including 170 police. Scotland Yard tallied 56 arrests for the two-day carnival, most of them young blacks...
...kind of violence that Britons had come to expect in Northern Ireland but not in their own traditionally peaceful streets. But this summer has changed that, as poor, unemployed blacks and whites have turned their frustration on one another-and the police. For British cops, the Netting Hill riot was their third violent racial clash in as many weeks. The earlier fights, in which 115 cops were injured, were provoked by demonstrations of Britain's National Front, a 4,500-member neofascist organization that wants to send the country's 2 million black and Asian immigrants back...
...this month to Jewish, Nazi or black groups, because Marquette Park is already booked up with sport and youth events, and "traffic problems" would result. More important, as the Marquette area's deputy chief of patrol Charles Pepp admitted, "a march could very well precipitate a major race riot...
...trimmed lawns and well-maintained bungalows, one of the last white enclaves in the city. Not coincidentally, it is also the site of the headquarters of Collin's Nazi party. Last summer, during a civil rights march there, 16 citizens and 16 police were injured in the ensuing riot. Lately crowds of up to 1,500 beer-swigging white youths have swarmed around the park, brandishing baseball bats, stones and bottles, and attacking black motorists. Most black leaders have given up attempts to integrate the park...
...gang of youths wheeled up to the apartment buildings, picked a few fights with young gypsies, and wound up kicking in the door of an elderly couple. Later, a 70-car caravan of hooligans headed toward the area, only to meet a cordon of police armed for a riot. Brandishing clubs and bicycle chains, the youths battled police for an hour...