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BART officials said Saturday that they will investigate the actions of one of the transit agency's police officers after a video surfaced showing the officer striking a passenger - apparently Oscar Grant - minutes before the unarmed young man was fatally shot by another officer early on New Year's Day. The cell phone video, one of a handful that have surfaced, aired Friday night on KTVU-TV. It shows a male BART police officer walking over to three men lined up against a wall near a female officer, and then striking one in the face. The victim of the punch -...

SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) -- FOX 35 is investigating reports of an inmate riot at a federal prison in Sumter County. Early reports indicate that there are mass casualties involving gun shot wounds at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex, which is located approximately 50 miles northwest of Orlando and 35 miles south of Ocala. FOX 35 has a crew headed to the scene for more information and we will bring you more updates as they are confirmed. Coleman Federal Correctional Complex is located just south of the central Florida town of Coleman, off of Highway 301. The...

China fears riots will spread as boom goes sour Today millions will leave the cities to return to their rural family homes for the new year celebrations. But this year Beijing hopes the newly jobless revellers will stay there - to prevent a fresh wave of unrest in the cities Tania Branigan in Dongguan Sunday 25 January 2009 They surged into the grimy streets around the factory: first scores, then hundreds, then more than a thousand, as word spread and tension loaded the stale, grey air. The boldest overturned a police van and smashed up motorcycles, then tore through the...

SACRAMENTO – The former BART police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man on New Year’s Day will be exonerated, his lawyer said Wednesday, as newly released documents allege that the victim was shot while his hands were behind his back. Former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle is a “fine young man” who will be cleared of murder charges in the shooting death of 22-year-old Oscar Grant III, said attorney Christopher Miller. Grant was one of several passengers detained by BART police at the Fruitvale station, following New Year’s Eve celebrations and a reported fight. Several well-circulated videos show...

OAKLAND – Johannes Mehserle, the former BART police officer involved in the fatal New Year’s Day shooting of an unarmed 22-year-old, was arrested without incident Tuesday evening in Nevada, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. The Oakland Police Department informed the Nevada authorities Tuesday morning that an arrest warrant for homicide from Alameda County was pending against the 27-year-old Mehserle, and that he was believed to be in the Zephyr Cove area of Lake Tahoe, according to a statement by Douglas County Undersheriff Paul Howell. Widely circulated amateur videos of the incident at Oakland’s Fruitvale station, showing Mehserle shooting...

The man who organized Wednesday's BART police protest said he broke down in tears when he saw his peaceful march turn violent as some participants began throwing bottles, spitting on police cars and setting small fires. Evan Shamar said he left the demonstration and saw the mayhem get worse on television. "I was devastated by it," said Shamar, 24, the organizer and a photographer who lives in Oakland. "I worked diligently for the past 72 hours, and for it to be destroyed by a group of anarchists was extremely upsetting. I felt like my integrity had been compromised." Shamar and...

OAKLAND, Calif. — Protests over the fatal shooting of an unarmed man by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer turned violent Wednesday night with windows broken, fires set and train stations closed. A few hundred protesters took the streets of downtown Oakland to condemn the shooting and call for criminal charges against 27-year-old officer Johannes Mehserle. Oakland police reported at least 15 arrests.

01-04) 19:38 PST Oakland -- BART's police chief asked for patience from the public on Sunday after video footage surfaced showing one of his officers fatally shooting an unarmed man who was on the ground on a station platform on New Year's Day, and after an attorney for the dead man's family said he planned to sue the transit agency for $25 million.

Marfa, Texas – Border Patrol agents from Marfa, Texas Friday responded to a request for assistance at the Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos, Texas. An uprising of prisoners was underway at the prison that had escalated to the level of a riot. Approximately 30 Marfa Sector Border Patrol Agents responded and provided perimeter security to aid in the prevention of prisoner escapes from the facility and to end the situation peaceably after approximately 17 hours. The Marfa Sector Special Response Team was activated and responded to the prison with a variety of specialized skills and equipment. They had an...

The rioting began in Athens late on Saturday soon after the shooting in the central Exarchia district, where youths threw petrol bombs at police, burnt dozens of cars and smashed shop windows. It quickly spread to Greece's second largest city of Thessaloniki and other towns in northern Greece. Cities on the holiday islands of Crete and Corfu also saw protests at the shooting, which prompted Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos to offer his resignation. Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, whose fragile government has been rocked by a series of scandals, rejected it, a ministry spokeswoman said.

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Gansu Locked Down After Riots 2008-11-21 Local officials and residents say a curfew has been imposed on Longnan city following two days of violence between police and protesters. RFA Volunteer A police officer kicks a protestor restrained by two fellow officers in Longnan, Gansu province. HONG KONG—Authorities in the northwestern Chinese province of Gansu have imposed a curfew on some districts of Longnan city following two days of violence between security forces and local residents resisting eviction. "The whole area is under curfew," a local official who declined to be identified said. "Any groups of more than three people will...

China fears job riotsStory Highlights China warns of labor unrest and more layoffs during economic crisis BEIJING, China (CNN) -- China's job outlook is "grim," and the global financial crisis could cause more layoffs and more labor unrest until the country's economic stimulus package kicks in next year, the nation's minister of human resources and social security said Thursday. Thousands of graduates crowd a jobs fair in Nanjing but vacancies are becoming harder to find. 1 of 2 The stimulus package, unveiled earlier this month, will pump $585 billion into rebuilding communities destroyed by the May earthquake, constructing railways, housing,...

Hundreds of homosexual activists rushed out of bars and swarmed a group of Christians who were singing songs in San Francisco's Castro District – and some even threatened to kill the worshippers. Warning: Video may contain offensive language)

Tehran, 10 Nov. (AKI) - More than 30,000 police agents and members of the security forces were expected to take part in a series of anti-riot drills in the Iranian capital, Tehran, from Monday. During the drills, eight roads will be closed to traffic to facilitate the movement of the security forces over the next week. The drills' aim was for the country to "be ready to confront the psychological aggression of the enemy," said recently ousted Interior Minister Ali Kordan. Kordan also spoke about the "cultural aggression" of some religious minorities such as the Bahai and the Wahabis. He...

JONESBORO, AR (KAIT) - Region 8 News has received reports of some riot-like activity in Jonesboro. It happened at The Grove apartment complex just off the Arkansas State University campus on North Caraway. Officers from Jonesboro, Brookland, Bay, Craighead County Sheriff's Department and the State Police all responded to this incident. From what we've been told, at least one police officer has been injured. Region 8 News has a live truck on the way to the scene and will bring you the latest on kait8.com and on KAIT as it happens.

The original 8 minute video was removed for a music copyright. The counter went from 1000 to well over 300,000 with the counter stuck various times in 3 weeks from the time we started promoting it. This is the new location for it so save it before it gets removed again, with the Obama supporter being mutilated in Pittsburgh this video will have added impact. If someone can remake the video with original music to prevent it from being pulled again that would be a big help.

Police departments in cities across the country are beefing up their ranks for Election Day, preparing for possible civil unrest and riots after the historic presidential contest. Public safety officials said in interviews with The Hill that the election, which will end with either the nation’s first black president or its first female vice president, demanded a stronger police presence. Some worry that if Barack Obama loses and there is suspicion of foul play in the election, violence could ensue in cities with large black populations. Others based the need for enhanced patrols on past riots in urban areas (following...

Jews and Arabs rioted in the mixed Jewish-Arab Israeli city of Akko over Yom Kippur. The riots started Wednesday night when an Arab man drove through the Jewish sector of the city and was confronted by Jewish youths who said he was deliberately desecrating the holiday by driving, smoking and playing loud music. The ensuing riots between Jewish and Arab youths resulted in extensive damage to property throughout the town in northern Israel. Some fresh clashes continued on Friday, but the deployment of hundreds of police officers in Akko helpes restore calm. Other mixed Jewish-Arab cities in Israel, including Jaffa,...

This guy Bob Parks asks a good question. Is the mere fact that Obama is the nominee, and therefore, must necessarily either win or lose the election, mean that blacks will riot? I think we could be screwed either way. Newsweek agrees we could have a problem come November 5.

If Barack Obama loses the 2008 election, liberal hell will break loose. Seven weeks before the 2008 presidential election, liberals are warning America that if Barack Obama loses, it is because Americans are racist. Of course, that this means that Democrats (and independents) are racist, since Republicans will vote Republican regardless of the race of the Democrat, is an irony apparently lost on the Democrats making these charges. That an Obama loss will be due to racism is becoming as normative a liberal belief as “Bush Lied, People Died,” a belief has generated intense rage among many liberals. But “Obama...

Riot police quell two separate large protests in China Fri Sep 5, 8:07 AM ET China dispatched large numbers of soldiers and armed riot police to quell two major protests, officials and a rights group said Friday, in the latest public discontent to rock the communist nation. In central Hunan province Thursday, 5,000 soldiers and armed police converged on a furious crowd of up to 10,000 demanding money back from an alleged fundraising fraud, the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said. In a separate protest Thursday, up to 10,000 people gathered around a factory in the...

black and Asian youths fight it out in broad daylight on the streets of London. The terrifying scenes were captured by a photographer who had been waiting in the street to take a photo of the actress Julie Christie, who lives nearby. Instead he was faced with a brutal illustration of life in modern Britain as gang warfare erupted around him in broad daylight.

Day 2 Day: TuesdayArrests: None Video Pictures Minn. GOP Delegates' Bus Tires Slashed Minnesota delegates spent their day on the second day of Republican National Convention in meetings and at a reception in their honor. The Minnesota delegates got a late start because someone slashed the tires on two of their buses. Minnesota Republican Party Chair Ron Carey said, "It's a shame that people want to deny us a chance to exercise our 1st amendment rights." Day: TuesdayTime: approx. 8:30Protesters: 4000 Video Pictures Journalist rescues pol, wife, six delegates from thugs So, we get out of the thick of the...

Just thought I would post t this as a reminder of multiculturalism in action. The UK did it's annual celebration of culture with it's 'Notting Hill Carnival' last week, and which inevitably, as it does every year, ended up in a riot. Click picture for video of footage Allegedly Conservative Mayor, Boris Johnson said: "I have watched the Notting Hill Carnival go from strength to strength each year to become an internationally acclaimed event, Nothing beats the sounds of the steel pans, the aroma of delicious Caribbean food and the dazzling colours of the costume parade." What Mr Johnson forgot...

THEY HELD A RIOT & NOBODY CAMEPosted: 5:54 am August 27, 2008 DENVER NEVER was so much hype created by so few to simulate the appearance of so many. The hard-core left vowed to turn out 50,000 protesters for the Democratic National Convention this week. They pledged to "Re-create '68" and cause the kind of tear-gas-infused revolutionary havoc that marked the DNC in Chicago four decades ago. Police prepared for the worst riots. Media from around the world anticipated the best pictures. But when rhetorical push came to real-life shove, the nostalgic, Marxadoring organizers of Re-create '68 seem to have...

----snip Villanueva was reportedly shooting dice with friends in Henri Bourassa Park in the ethnically-diverse borough when police attempted to make a routine arrest. Montreal police say about 20 youths then surrounded them -- several of them reportedly rushing at police. ----snip Villanueva's death triggered an angry and violent response Sunday night. Vehicles were set on fire and there was widespread looting and violence targeting police and emergency service workers. One police officer was shot in the leg, while another officer and an ambulance technician received minor injuries. The technician was struck in the head with a bottle, said CTV...

Hundreds of riot police chased a group of roving youths early Monday after a night of rioting and vandalism in a North Montreal neighbourhood set off by the fatal police shooting of an 18-year-old man over the weekend. The park is in a predominantly Haitian neighbourhood where tensions between police and young people run high, according to residents. "The police are always creeping around here, hassling people," one unidentified youth told CBC News as he stood in front of a looted butcher shop. The violence began after a Sunday afternoon protest at Henri Bourassa Park, the site of Saturday's police...

Stranded air passengers 'clash with police in China' 2 hours, 8 minutes ago Angry passengers scuffled with police in an airport in southwest China on Tuesday, smashing computers and desks after they were stranded overnight, allegedly without food or lodging, state media said. More than 170 passengers were holed up at an airport in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, after three China Southern Airlines flights were delayed late Monday due to bad weather, the Xinhua news agency reported. Some passengers were told to go to a hotel by themselves but ended up being rejected once they arrived, it said.

Riot in Guangdong after a man beaten death By boxun Jul 17, 2008 - 4:07:10 PM Huizhou, Guangdong: On the night of 17th, angered crowds destroyed police cars after an innocent man beaten death. The source said three policemen were killed in te riot. The maa was a passenger of motorcycle taxi, he was stopped by police and asked to pay 200 Yuan. He refused to pay, then the police took him to a police station where he was beaten to death.

Denver—With a recent move to relegate peaceful protestors beneath the Denver homeless population, Re-create 68 has now vowed that there will indeed be “a bloodbath” at the Democratic National Convention should they try to keep them fenced in. The American Civil Liberties Union and several advocacy groups have filed an amended complaint to their lawsuit, stating that their First Amendment rights have been violated by security restrictions. “What the hell do they think we are? Barnyard animals,” asked Tom Mestnik, a member of The Re-create ’68 Alliance, an umbrella group organizing the protesters. “They’re giving the homeless a free pass...

Syria's government has blamed prisoners serving sentences for extremism and terror for clashes with jail guards that left several inmates dead. Prisoners say the unrest began early on Saturday when guards began beating the mainly Islamist inmates in their cells. The government has denied this, saying the guards intervened to stop violence begun by inmates during an inspection. It remains unclear how many detainees were killed and injured in the unrest. A human rights group said 25 were dead. The Islamist prisoners were also reported to have taken a large number of other inmates hostage but it is not clear...

Anarchists Announce Plans On-Air to Foil RNC Convention Goers Last Edited: Sunday, 06 Jul 2008, 9:41 PM CDT Created: Sunday, 06 Jul 2008, 9:08 PM CDT RNC Welcoming Committee a.k.a. Anarchist group ST. PAUL -- An anarchist group threatening to crash the Republican National Convention has taken to the airwaves. Ironically calling themselves the “RNC Welcoming Committee,” members of the group shared plans to wreak havoc during the RNC. Their plans include blocking bridges into St. Paul. Those plans, called “Swarm, Seize and Stay,” call for members to try and cut off convention-goers and delegates from the arena.

U.S. Forest Service officers pointed weapons at children and fired rubber bullets and pepper spray balls at Rainbow Family members while making arrests Thursday evening, according to witnesses. "They were so violent, like dogs," Robert Parker told reporter Deborah Stevens of the libertarian-oriented, Round Rock, Texas-based We the People Radio Network [www.wtprn.com] after the incident. "People yelled at them, 'You're shooting children,'" Parker said during an interview on the network's "Rule of Law Show." About 7,000 people have arrived at the gathering near Big Sandy in the Wind River Mountains for the annual Gathering of the Tribes, a seven-day event...

Girl's death sparks rioting in China: reports By Chris Buckley Sat Jun 28, 3:50 PM ET Rioters torched a police building and vehicles in southwest China on Saturday, in unrest triggered by allegations of a cover-up over a girl's death, according to Chinese accounts on the Internet. The reports of the clash in Weng'an County, Guizhou province, could not be immediately verified and government and police did not answer phone calls in the early hours of Sunday. But the accounts spreading on the Internet, despite China's state censorship, depicted a violent outburst involving thousands of people and lasting several hours.

Mob of young men attacks Man's skull fractured during beating; another attacked, robbed Police suspect a mob of 20 to 30 young men who brutally attacked a motorist in Mount Clemens on Saturday may also be responsible for at least two other violent crimes that took place the same night. Four people were taken into custody for questioning and police Sunday were hoping to interview a man who was beaten unconscious during the ordeal and was hospitalized with a fractured skull. "This certainly was a frightening incident," Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel said. The trouble began late Saturday and into...

Several violent attacks in Mt. Clemens have investigators looking for a gang of young men. As FOX 2's Amy Lange reports, police are now releasing surveillance video of the suspects

Four of eight people charged with felonies in connection with a Feb. 15 riot at The Evergreen State College have been accepted into a diversion program that could allow them to plead guilty to misdemeanors, court papers state. The charges will be reduced only if the four complete the program and pay Evergreen back a total of $44,694 for damage caused during the riot, court papers state. Criminal charges against a fifth person, Chase Hill, will be dropped if he completes the program, called Friendship Diversion Services, court papers state. He must pay Evergreen $541 in restitution as part of...

The ACLU of Colorado filed a lawsuit against the city of Denver today to try to force the city to disclose what kind of police equipment it is buying in preparation for the Democratic National Convention this August. Denver turned down the ACLU's request for the information about the purchase of police equipment earlier this year, saying that disclosure "could potentially disclose tactical security information of the Denver Police Department which would be contrary to the public interest." the city is actually going to spend closer to half of the $50 million on equipment and the rest on personnel. But...

BERIANE, Algeria (Reuters) - Hundreds of Algerian security forces were deployed in the town of Beriane on Sunday to try to end three nights of clashes between Arabs and minority Berbers, the worst urban unrest in the OPEC producer in months. Residents said two people, including a 67-year-old, man have been killed and dozens made homeless since the disturbances involving rival gangs of hooded young men broke out in this north Saharan town of about 35,000 on Thursday evening. "They burn our houses, steal and kill. The hatred has made them blind," Slimane Baaziz, 51, a member of the Mozabite...

A fight between rival groups of black and Latino students at Locke High School quickly escalated into a campus-wide melee Friday, with as many as 600 students brawling until police restored calm with billy clubs. The troubled campus in South Los Angeles was locked down after the fight broke out at 12:55 p.m., as students returned from lunch to their fifth-period classes. Overwhelmed school officials called Los Angeles police for help, but students and faculty said it took about half an hour before dozens of officers, many in riot gear, restored order. "The kids were crazy, running from place to...

(IsraelNN.com) Having just completed an anti-Israel rally near the town of Tzipori, in the Lower Galilee, hundreds of Arabs clashed violently with a group of Jews celebrating Independence Day. In the ensuing riot, five police officers were injured The Arabs demanded that the Jews lower their flag, which led to a heated exchange. and six rioters were arrested. Two Arab Members of Knesset who took part in the rally and ensuing violence were lightly injured, as well. Both police and Arab MK Mohammad Barakeh (Hadash) confirmed that the violence started when members of a youth movement dedicated to reviving Zionism...

Rioting lesbians have stormed a speech by "Born Gay Hoax" author Ryan Sorba on the campus of Smith College in Massachusetts, shutting down his address, according to two major pro-family organizations, Americans for Truth and Mass Resistance. "Beware lesbians with frying pans (if you care about free speech)," AFT said in his announcement. "Lesbian activists at Smith College just couldn't stand by and let a young critic explain his views about the supposed innateness of homosexuality – so they stormed Ryan Sorba's speech on the 'Born Gay Hoax' and forced him to end it prematurely." "Thus they decided for everyone...

My e-mail box is over-flowing with alarming news from Pa. where the Gathering of Eagles witnessed a 14-year old boy attacked by Peace Thugs. This news is so disturbing and so typical, that a website has now been established to document this intensifying level of violence against patriotic Americans. Peace Thugs Exposed! Dan Maloney, my friend and GOE NY Coordinator writes about this outrage. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Iraq War Veteran and Family Assaulted! April 22, 2008 Peace Fascists, College Professors and Hillary Supporters assault Iraqi War Veteran and Family while citizens do nothing to intervene. Edinboro, PA, Apr. 22 For the second...

World Bank president calls for action as food prices cause rioting Jenny Booth The president of the World Bank has called for immediate action to deal with rapidly rising food prices that have caused hunger and deadly violence and threatened the economic stability of the world's poorest countries. A doubling of food prices over the last two years was potentially pushing 100 million people deeper into long-term poverty, said Robert Zoellick. “We have to put our money where our mouth is now, so that we can put food into hungry mouths. It is as stark as that,” Mr Zoellick said...

On his Fox News radio show, Tom Sullivan predicted that African-Americans would be rioting in the streets similar to what happened after the O.J. trial in the 1990s...What if Barack Obama is not -- does not win the Democratic nomination, or he does win it, and loses in the presidential race against John McCain? Is black America going to...

About 20,000 workers rioted over high food prices and low wages on Saturday close to the Bangladesh capital Dhaka, police said, amid spreading global unrest over soaring grocery costs. Food riots seem to be happening around the world on a near-daily basis lately. U.N. peacekeepers fired rubber bullets and tear gas at an angry mob that tried to storm the National Palace in the Hatian capital, Port-au-Prince today. Riots began in Haiti last Wednesday and five people have already been killed in the violence. The UN secretary general has warned that millions of people are at risk of starvation as...

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 Illinois 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 explosively as they did before the 1992 riots. "This administration was colorblind in its incompetence," Obama said at a conference of black clergy, "but the poverty and the hopelessness was there long before the hurricane. "All the...

BOCA RATON — A crowd of more than 500 people waiting for hours this morning for housing voucher applications were dispersed by police in riot gear at the Boca Raton Housing Authority when the applications ran out sooner than expected. The action prompted complaints that officers used excessive tactics and housing authority officials were incompetent in their planning. VideoSpecial video report Special video report Residents cry foul PhotosPhoto gallery Police respond to scene Police respond to scene More local news Latest breaking news, photos and all of today's Post stories. Share This Story Two people were arrested and six to...