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2006 Brussels riots

On Belgian RTBF radio, Brussels's mayor Freddy Thielemans thanked the family of the late Fayçal Chaaban for helping to try to calm down the rioters.

2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot

Riot police eventually managed to push the rioters away from Georgia, onto Granville Street and Robson Street, where the rioters then caused further substantial damage, breaking the windows of several shops and looting, such as a Future Shop, a Sears and a Chapters bookstore.

Andrew Gilchrist

During the crisis, the Military Attache to the Embassy; Lt Colonel Bill Becke and Major Rory Walker paraded in front of the rioters, the latter playing the bagpipes, which pacified the unruly mob.

Camp Jackson Affair

The Camp Jackson Affair was an incident in the American Civil War on 10 May 1861, when Union military forces captured a force pro-secession state militia at Camp Jackson, just outside Saint Louis, Missouri, and subsequently clashed with pro-secession rioters in the city.

Cincinnati riots of 1884

The French author Victor Hugo even compared the riot to the storming of the Bastille, calling the rioters champions of justice and heroes.

Dan Man

Dan Man memorialized the events of that night in a song called "Albert Street", which sympathized with the rioters and blamed sitting Prime Minister Said Musa and the ruling People's United Party for the troubles of City residents.

Derek Wilford

Saville suggested Wilford “wanted to demonstrate the way to deal with rioters in Londonderry was not for soldiers to shelter behind barricades like (as he put it) Aunt Sallies while being stoned, as he perceived the local troops had been doing, but instead to go aggressively after rioters, as he and his soldiers had been doing in Belfast”.

Gordon Riots

The riots destroyed the popularity of radical politician John Wilkes, who led troops against the rioters.

Hong Kong 1956 riots

Colonial Secretary Edgeworth B. David ordered extra manpower from the British Forces Hong Kong, including armoured troops of 7th Hussars, to reinforce the Hong Kong Police on dispersing all rioters.

Kfar Uria

In the 1929 Palestine riots Arab rioters from Jerusalem attacked Kfar Uria.

Lobotomia

Along with the bands: Cólera, Garotos Podres, Ratos de Porão, Armagedom, Virus 27, Grinders, Rioters, Auschwitz, the album became an icon in the history of Brazilian punk.

Lucy Parsons

While it is commonly accepted by nearly all biographical accounts (including those of the Lucy Parsons Center, the IWW, and Joe Knowles) that Parsons joined the Communist Party in 1939, there is some dispute, notably in Gale Ahrens' essay "Lucy Parsons: Mystery Revolutionist, More Dangerous Than A Thousand Rioters", which can be found in the anthology Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality, Solidarity.

Malari incident

The riots were brought to an end the next day, when KKO, RPKAD, and Kostrad forces fired upon the rioters.

Muhammad al-Yaqoubi

On August 18, 2011, al-Yaqoubi led prayers from a stage in Summerfield Park, Winson Green, Birmingham to some 20,000 people who gathered to remember three men killed while attempting to protect their neighbourhood from rioters and looters during the England riots.

Namantar Andolan

Beed town: Upper caste rioters attempted to burn the Muslim residences

S.P.Q.R.: 2,000 and a Half Years Ago

However the Senate being in power has the better of the rioters and Caesar together with Antonio and the rebels are crucified along the Via Appia.

Strike Back: Vengeance

In one such instance locals portrayed a group of rioters in the township of Langa in Cape Town.


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