Thesaurus / riot
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The officers are hard to identify because they’re wearing riot gear, but Rojas later confirmed in court documents that he arrested Ramirez.
OFFICERS WHO WROTE MULTIPLE SEDITIOUS LANGUAGE TICKETS HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF OTHER VIOLATIONSKARA GRANTOCTOBER 14, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOLook at the impeachment, the Kavanaugh hearing, the protests that turned into riots that turned into autonomous zones where people got shot.
UNDECIDED VOTERS WEIGH IN: “I HONESTLY DON’T KNOW”NICK FOURIEZOSOCTOBER 14, 2020OZYThe vice president then segued to attacking the riots and violence that broke out in some cities amid otherwise peaceful protests against racial injustice.
VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE: HIGHLIGHTS AND FACT-CHECKSCOLBY ITKOWITZ, ANNE GEARAN, MATT VISER, FELICIA SONMEZ, JOHN WAGNEROCTOBER 8, 2020WASHINGTON POSTSo when they both read him the riot act in this episode, and then Emily follows it up with the world’s most chilling, “Go home, Christopher,” it’s immensely satisfying.
EVERY EPISODE OF GILMORE GIRLS, RANKEDCONSTANCE GRADYOCTOBER 6, 2020VOXIt predicted the imminent arrest of Hillary Clinton and warned of “massive riots.”
AS QANON GREW, FACEBOOK AND TWITTER MISSED YEARS OF WARNING SIGNS ABOUT THE CONSPIRACY THEORY’S VIOLENT NATURECRAIG TIMBERG, ELIZABETH DWOSKINOCTOBER 1, 2020WASHINGTON POSTWe simply don’t know if Wasow’s findings — which come from, after all, just one study — apply to all riots or the past week’s events.
VIOLENT PROTESTS AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY IN THE ’60S AND ’90S CHANGED PUBLIC OPINIONGERMAN LOPEZAUGUST 28, 2020VOXThe exertions of the city authorities, who had notice of the meditated riot, were unable to prevent or quell it.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELLMonsieur de Tressan was here, as ill-luck would have it, and Gaubert implored him to send soldiers thither to quell the riot.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIA special assistant of the United States marshal was killed, but the object of the riot was not effected.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELLSeven months later Captain Preston and other soldiers implicated in the riot were tried before a Boston jury.
THE EVE OF THE REVOLUTIONCARL BECKERWORDS RELATED TO RIOT
- agitation
- ailment
- anxiety
- anxiousness
- bedlam
- bustle
- commotion
- confusion
- disorder
- disquiet
- disquietude
- distress
- disturbance
- dither
- ferment
- flap
- flurry
- free-for-all
- fuss
- hassle
- hectic
- hubbub
- lather
- mix up
- noise
- pandemonium
- pother
- restiveness
- restlessness
- riot
- row
- ruckus
- stir
- strife
- to-do
- topsy-turvy
- trouble
- tumult
- turbulence
- unrest
- uproar
- violence
- whirl
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