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...breaking windows and computers. When the police showed up, they were immediately on the defensive. Two squad cars were overturned and trashed, as were five police motorcycles. The police called in reinforcements, and five workers ended up getting beaten badly, an eyewitness said. (Dongguan police declined comment on the riot.) The violence lasted for more than an hour before police restored order...
Thailand appeared to be bracing for a crackdown on anti-government protesters occupying Bangkok's two main airports on Friday evening, as riot police gathered near the airfields and a government spokesman claimed the administration had international support to use force against the demonstrators...
...factions in the PNTL that have not forgotten the fighting. "They are trying to work together now, whereas in 2006 they may have been trying to shoot each other." All the same, he worries that the force lacks the cohesion to deal impartially with a large protest or riot, an ever-present threat...
...Police went to arrest the offender and were pelted with eggs, chunks of concrete and balloons filled with paint and urine. The police responded by charging into the crowd, clubbing bystanders and yelling "Kill! Kill!" in what one report later termed a "police riot." Across the country, Americans watching on television gave their verdict: Serves the damn hippies right. Democrats, who had won seven of the previous nine presidential elections, went on to lose seven of the next...
...laughed incredulously at the slow but steady stream of “Bushisms.” Little did we know that gems like “I know how hard it is to put food on your family” were only the beginning of an eight-year laugh riot! But after eight years of State of the Union addresses where nuclear was pronounced as an arbitrary sequence of three syllables, we have become accustomed to seeing the presidential office as part-king, part-jester. The idea of the United States President as a somewhat lovable buffoon remains firmly ensconced...