Protesters came out across the world’s largest country to demand clean elections and to say what, only one week ago, was unsayable. “Russia Without Putin” was the favorite chant of thousands of demonstrators who marched within earshot of the Kremlin in the largest pro-democracy demonstration since Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000. From Vladivostok [...]
Tag: Riot
December 11, 2011
December 10, 2011
Riot theory is relative | Philip Meyer
Journalists who report major stories need major tools. That’s what I told my colleagues at the Detroit Free Press in 1967 when we gathered in the newsroom to plan our investigation into the causes of five days of rioting that led to 43 deaths. The tool we chose in Detroit was quantitative survey research, to [...]
November 30, 2011
Occupy LA eviction begins as police move in
Police in riot gear close in on anti-Wall Street activists in Los Angeles early on Wednesday Link to this video Police in riot gear have moved into the Occupy LA encampment outside City Hall to enforce the mayor’s order to evict protesters who have been camped out for the past eight weeks. Hundreds of activists, [...]
November 30, 2011
Occupy LA protesters evicted
Police in riot gear close in on anti-Wall Street activists in Los Angeles early on Wednesday. The eviction came after after LA’s mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, announced last week that he wanted protesters to leave by Monday or face forcible removal. Hundreds of Occupy LA activists crowded the area around City Hall as police moved into [...]
November 30, 2011
Los Angeles police dismantle Occupy protesters’ tents
November 30, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Los Angeles police dismantle Occupy protesters’ tents 30 Nov 2011 More than 100 Los Angeles police officers, including dozens in white protective suits, surrounded the Occupy L.A. camp on the City Hall lawn early Wednesday and began to dismantle tents and other shelters. Officers in riot gear and armed [...]
November 29, 2011
Police hold off on eviction of Los Angeles Occupy camp
November 29, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Police hold off on eviction of Los Angeles Occupy camp 28 Nov 2011 Police in riot gear closed in before dawn on Monday on anti-Wall Street activists in Los Angeles who defied a midnight deadline to vacate a camp outside City Hall, but stopped short of clearing the encampment. [...]
November 24, 2011
Military police try to halt Cairo skirmishes
November 23, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Military police try to halt Cairo skirmishes 23 Nov 2011 Military police poured into Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Wednesday in hopes of stopping clashes between protesters and police, as the Egyptian government said a truce had been declared through a group of clerics. The truce lasted about three hours. [...]
November 16, 2011
New York Police in Riot Gear Clear ‘Occupy’ Protesters From Zuccotti Park
November 16, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis New York Police in Riot Gear Clear ‘Occupy’ Protesters From Zuccotti Park 15 Nov 2011 New York City police in riot gear swept into a Lower Manhattan park early today to remove Occupy Wall Street demonstrators who had been camping there for more than eight weeks to protest income [...]
November 16, 2011
November 15, 2011
Camp cleared at Occupy Oakland
14 November 2011 Last updated at 22:22 GMT Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Police dismantle Oakland Occupy tents in Oakland’s Frank Ogawa Plaza Police have shut down a camp set up by Occupy protesters in Oakland’s Frank Ogawa Plaza, dismantling tents and arresting 32 people. The raid comes after police issued [...]
November 14, 2011
Police move in on Occupy Portland
14 November 2011 Last updated at 01:32 GMT Occupy Wall Street is in its second month of protest against corporate greed and economic inequality Occupy protesters and police in riot gear confronted each other in central Portland in the US state of Oregon. Up to 1,000 protesters remained near fenced-off parks which the mayor had [...]
November 11, 2011
Dozens of Occupy protesters arrested at Berkeley
November 10, 2011 by walden9 ShareThis Dozens of Occupy protesters arrested at Berkeley 10 Nov 2011 Dozens of people were arrested during Occupy demonstrations at the University of California, Berkeley campus, as authorities twice clashed with protesters trying to set up encampments. The bulk of the arrests came Wednesday night, as authorities in riot gear confronted [...]
November 8, 2011
Liberian Vote on Schedule Despite Killing at Opposition Protest
At least one person is dead in Liberia after fighting between riot police and supporters of an opposition candidate who is boycotting Tuesday’s presidential runoff election over allegations of vote fraud. Liberia’s government says that poll will go ahead as scheduled. Liberian riot police stormed the headquarters of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change party, [...]
October 30, 2011
Police arrest Occupy protesters in Denver
Police in riot gear fired pepper balls and mace into a crowd of economic protesters in Denver on Saturday and arrested 20 after some people entered the grounds of the State Capitol, police said. Denver Police Spokesman Lieutenant Matt Murray said about 2,000 demonstrators from Occupy Wall Street protests against economic inequality marched peacefully through [...]