http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/riot/ en-us Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:39:11 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410185/posts MANCHESTER – Police charged six Hesser College students with felony riot early Tuesday morning when confronted with 50 screaming students while answering a call about an out-of-control fight, police said. The incident took place during finals week, and the six students, three of them women, appeared in Manchester District Court Tuesday. Five face additional misdemeanors such as assault or resisting arrest. All were held on $1,000 cash or surety bail. They were forbidden from returning to the Hesser College campus unless allowed by college authorities. Police Chief David Mara said he is satisfied with the way police acted, but several... New Hampshire Union Leader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410185/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:39:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396233/posts Store management called Upland police at 2:44 a.m., asking for assistance in dealing with customers who were “fighting inside,” said Lt. Jim Etchason. About 300 people were in the store, which had remained open all night as a security precaution after a Wal-Mart worker on Long Island, N.Y., was trampled to death last year on Black Friday when a surging, impatient crowd rushed the doors after the store opened. But in Upland, employees said, customers began tearing into merchandise that had been shrink-wrapped and were supposed to be opened at 5 a.m. “This was without a doubt the worst I’ve... L.A. Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396233/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:09:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388533/posts It seems like there was a bit of a kerfuffle in Paris that has him fuming mad. An internet marketing company decided to stage a promotional stunt: they were going to drive a bus through the city throwing money at passers-by. The event was advertised heavily (Duh - it's a marketing company) and attracted large crowds. So large, in fact, that police became nervous at the size of the crowd, estimated at 7,000 strong, and its composition — young, low-income males from bad parts of Paris' suburbs. Given the risk of violence and traffic chaos caused by the crowd, the... National Post [Canada] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388533/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:36:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382420/posts Neo-Nazis took to the streets in Arizona and Minnesota this weekend, a new boldness that officials say echoes the homegrown terrorism of the 1990s. James Verini talks to the extremists leading the charge. A year after President Obama's election, hate groups are feeling bolder than they have in over a decade, and their usually insular anger is beginning to spill into the public realm. This weekend, the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi organization, held rallies in Arizona and Minnesota. Those demonstrations came on the heels of similar actions in Southern California, where epithet-spewing white supremacists were forced to disband by... Daily Beast http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382420/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 21:29:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378986/posts Yesterday marked the 30th anniver sary of the capture by Khomeinist "stu dents" of the US Embassy in Tehran, triggering the 444-day hostage crisis. The Iranian public seized the chance to reject the regime -- even as the surviving hostage-takers have largely come to regret their actions. For months, Iran's state-controlled media had tried to build up the day as a "turning point" for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's troubled second term. The occasion was supposed to highlight Ahmadinejad's "victory over the American Great Satan" and Washington's implicit acceptance of Iran's nuclear project in recent talks in Geneva and Vienna. NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378986/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:43:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2364603/posts VIEWED from the outside, things have been going quite well for Russia recently. The United States has scrapped, at least for now, the plan to base missile defense sites in Poland and the Czech Republic. Germany and Russia seem to have overcome opposition in Europe to their Nord Stream pipeline, despite fears that it will solidify Russia’s dominance of the European natural gas supplies. Oil prices have recovered from the disastrously low — for Russia — levels of last winter. And, far from buckling under pressure from the United States over sanctions against Iran, Russian leaders felt confident enough to... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2364603/posts#comment Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:52:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362988/posts Seems like a shame that only the early birds might get to read this thread..as in the replies: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362878/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362988/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:17:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356901/posts DETROIT (WXYZ) - Thousands of people jammed into Cobo Hall and lined up around the building to seek out housing aid from the federal government. It quickly turned into a mess with reports of fights and nearly a stampede. People started lining up around midnight, but the real chaos broke out near the front entrance that leads to the ballroom. Thousands of people jammed into too tight of a space. There were reports of fights and people passing out in the crowd. wxyz.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356901/posts#comment Wed, 7 Oct 2009 17:59:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349146/posts Is this week's revelation that water ice is more prevalent on the moon than scientists expected a "game-changer" for future spaceflight, as some experts think? Actually, the rules of the game for going beyond Earth orbit haven't changed - but the latest findings could bring new attention to options in the old playbooks. cosmic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349146/posts#comment Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:44:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348165/posts Here are some stories from a student news outlet, about the riot police on the U of Pitt campus. http://www.pittbriefly.com/ PittBriefly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348165/posts#comment Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:29:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335535/posts China to send 'harmony makers' to Urumqi 7,000 officials being sent to Urumqi after last week's deadly protests "Harmony makers" meant to ease tensions after demonstrators clashed with police Demonstrators were demanding better police protection after attacks Han Chinese accuse Uyghurs of attacking people using hypodermic needles (CNN) -- China is sending 7,000 officials to the western city of Urumqi after last week's deadly protests over a strange series of syringe stabbings, state-run media reported. The officials, known as "harmony makers," are meant to ease tensions after demonstrators, demanding better police protection, clashed with police for two days. The unrest... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335535/posts#comment Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:02:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333773/posts Ninety people have been arrested after fighting erupted at a right-wing protest in a busy shopping street. A planned demonstration in Birmingham against Islamic fundamentalism, by The English Defence League, resulted in angry clashes with anti-fascist campaigners. Gangs of men and youths hurled bottles at one another and pelted riot police with bricks as trouble erupted in the New Street area of the city, close to the main train station. The disorder, which involved around 250 people, spilled onto the adjoining Bennetts Hill - a street lined with a number of pubs popular with shoppers. Sky News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333773/posts#comment Mon, 7 Sep 2009 07:09:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333741/posts Birmingham’s top Muslim leader urged his followers to “vent their feelings” against anti-Islamic protesters during a weekend rally that ended in violence and dozens of arrests, The Times can reveal. Muslims were encouraged by the Birmingham Central Mosque to counter-demonstrate during Saturday’s protest in the city, which was organised by the right-wing English Defence League (EDL). It is understood that Muslims were encouraged to confront the protest against the advice given by the West Midlands Police to community leaders to stop their followers from attending. Times on line http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333741/posts#comment Mon, 7 Sep 2009 04:55:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332094/posts Thomas Fitzgerald never knew what hit him. One minute he was riding home from his night-shift job and stopping his bike at Broad and South Streets to watch a mob scene that appeared to be getting out of control. The next, he told a Philadelphia judge yesterday, he was waking up four days later from a medically induced coma, with his hearing impaired and his memory scrambled. Two other witnesses yesterday helped piece together Fitzgerald's lost minutes as they described how, about 11:30 p.m. May 30, the 53-year-old bicyclist was set upon by eight young males, beaten, and left unconscious... Philly.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332094/posts#comment Fri, 4 Sep 2009 14:38:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321535/posts Indian villagers have gone on the rampage after police tried to enforce a ban on an annual stone-pelting ritual that often leaves people dead or injured, a local official said. Officers trying to uphold the ban in two villages in Madhya Pradesh were subjected to a hail of stones themselves on Friday and were forced to withdraw, Nikunj Srivastava, a district civil servant, told AFP. The angry mob then got their way and the centuries-old ritual went ahead as usual, causing at least two serious injuries. "As soon as the festival started and villagers from both sides came to know... watoday.com.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321535/posts#comment Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:42:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2323728/posts MARION, Ala. – Two Alabama families that had been fighting for years turned their feud into a full-scale riot Monday outside a small-town city hall, with up to 150 screaming people hurling tire irons and wielding baseball bats. Eight people were arrested, and at least four were hurt, Trooper John Reese said. Two were taken to hospitals. The town's police chief was hit in the head with a crowbar but was OK. The two- or three-year-old feud apparently prompted a fight earlier in the day at a high school, after a window was shot out of a home Sunday night.... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2323728/posts#comment Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:49:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321923/posts BURGIN, Ky. (AP) - Rioting inmates started several fires at a central Ky. prison, and damage to several buildings was so extensive that officials have to bus some of the facility's 1,200 prisoners elsewhere, police said Saturday. State police Lt. David Jude said firefighters had extinguished the blazes set at the medium-security Northpoint Training Center in a rural area 30 miles south of Lexington. Buses started to transport the first prisoners shortly after 6 a.m., but it wasn't immediately known where they were going and whether all the inmates would have to be moved. "To me it would seem like... Breitbart (AP) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321923/posts#comment Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:25:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321516/posts (English-language translation) SAN JUAN - A long riot left an undetermined number of people injured, including police officers, on busy Universidad Avenue in Río Piedras early Friday morning. The [Commonwealth] Police [Department] released a brief report about the incident in which it is mentioned that five San Juan municipal police officers were injured, but no mention is made of how many civilians were hurt during the brawl in which officers several times threw tear-gas bombs at the mob which, in turn, threw cans and stones at police. Sergeant Wilberto Soto with the Municipal Police told Commonwealth Police officers that the... El Vocero de Puerto Rico (Spanish-language article) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321516/posts#comment Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:24:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315560/posts PARIS — Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School will be the site of a National Guard riot control drill Thursday morning to prepare in the event of a panic over distribution of serum to treat the swine flu. The school on Route 26 at the Paris-Norway town line has been designated by state officials as a distribution site for the H1N1 flu vaccine. The drill is to prepare for a worst-case scenario should the serum have to be transported from Augusta and people rush to get it. On Thursday morning, four or five National Guard Humvees will travel from Augusta to... Sun Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315560/posts#comment Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:32:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2314843/posts Obama Says Bush Ignoring 'Quiet Riot' Among BlacksTuesday, June 05, 2007 HAMPTON, Virginia — Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Tuesday that the Bush administration has done nothing to defuse a "quiet riot" among blacks that threatens to erupt just as riots in Los Angeles did 15 years ago. The first-term senator said that with black people from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast still displaced 20 months after Hurricane Katrina, frustration and resentments are building. "This administration was colorblind in its incompetence," Obama said at a conference of black clergy, "but the poverty and the hopelessness was there long... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2314843/posts#comment Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:23:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312265/posts Hundreds Hurt in 11-Hour California Prison RiotSOLOMON MOORE Published: August 9, 2009 LOS ANGELES — Rioting inmates smashed and burned a large California prison on Saturday night and Sunday morning, injuring 250 prisoners and hospitalizing 55. The 11-hour riot, at the Reception Center West at the California Institution for Men in Chino, about 40 miles east of Los Angeles, broke down along racial lines, with black prison gangs fighting Latino gangs in hand-to-hand combat, the authorities said. No prison employees were injured, no deaths were reported, and no inmates escaped, state officials said. But 10 of the 33 prisons in... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312265/posts#comment Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:37:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309686/posts Police called to Rep. Murphy's town hall @ 11:22 am by Eric Zimmermann Protesters at one of Rep. Chris Murphy's (D-Conn.) constituent meetings yesterday were so unruly that police were called to the scene. Murphy was greeting constituents at a Stop & Shop grocery store in Simsbury, Conn., when protesters showed up chanting "No national healthcare!" and "Dump Chris Dodd!" the Boston Herald Reports. Finally, the store's management become so concerned at the protester's behavior that they called the police. No word on whether anyone was arrested, though the Herald reports the management simply wanted the boisterous protesters removed from... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309686/posts#comment Thu, 6 Aug 2009 16:20:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306602/posts KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysian riot police fired tear gas and water cannons in clashes with several thousand antigovernment demonstrators who gathered in Kuala Lumpur Saturday to protest a long-standing law allowing detention without trial, raising the stakes in a long-running struggle for political power in the resource-rich but divided country. The law, known as the Internal Security Act, enables Malaysian authorities to detain indefinitely persons they consider to be security risks. In the past, al Qaeda-linked terrorists have been held under the provision. But opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and human rights activists say the law is also being used to... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306602/posts#comment Sun, 2 Aug 2009 18:47:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294042/posts Civilian Airports Commandeered, More Than 10,000 Paramilitary Police Diverted to Xinjiang to Maintain Security By chinafreepress.org (translation) Jul 10, 2009 - 4:26:58 AM (Image) Civilian Airports Commandeered, More Than 10,000 Paramilitary Police Diverted to Xinjiang to Maintain Security Boxun reports that regional airports and airliners have been commandeered in transporting 14,000 paramilitary police officers and troops from Jiangsu, Henan and Fujian provinces to Xinjiang following last week's violent uprising. A correspondent in Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport confirmed that flights were cancelled while the military deployment took place. Boxun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294042/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:57:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2293251/posts It wasn't your usual Saturday afternoon lunch at the Jack in the Box on North Grand Avenue on Saturday. Upon learning of his termination with the restaurant, a Jack in the Box employee went on a tirade, destroying two cash registers, a breakfast menu board, a drive thru headset, a milkshake mixer--- even two customer's meals. The 20-year-old employee was charged with criminal mischief greater than $1,500, which is a state jail felony. No one was injured in the employee's ‘rampage.’ KXII http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2293251/posts#comment Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:41:29 GMT