riot
Example Sentences
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Police also began to work directly with increasingly active neighborhood organizations that sprang up while city life frayed after the George Floyd riots.
At 10:51 a.m. on Saturday, the Minneapolis Police Department received a report that “Border Patrol/ICE agents were lining up wearing riot gear and masks.”
“We respect that Second Amendment right, but those rights don’t count when you riot and assault, delay, obstruct, and impede law enforcement officers — and most especially when you mean to do that beforehand,” he said.
From Salon
He covered war, famine, riots and assassinations, the Bhopal gas tragedy and the Indian army's storming of the Sikh Golden Temple.
From BBC
Nationwide rallies against the rising cost of living erupted in Tehran on December 28, beginning as peaceful demonstrations before turning into what officials describe as "foreign-instigated riots" that included killings and vandalism.
From Barron's
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