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A courtroom brawl aborted Tuesday's sentencing of the West Philadelphia man who had just been found guilty of felony murder in the 2013 robbery of a special-needs man for his brand-new Beats by Dre headphones. The chaos erupted when Arkel Garcia, 21, stood to be sentenced to a mandatory life sentence for the Nov. 30, 2013, shooting death of Christian Massey. Garcia stood up suddenly and the heavy wooden courtroom chair he had been using tipped over behind him, next to Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Robert Castelli. When Castelli righted the chair and pushed it close behind Garcia, the convicted man...

(Reuters) - "State of Chaos", was how one South African newspaper described the images of police and politicians trading blows at the opening of parliament, a damning assessment of the country's democracy twenty years after apartheid. President Jacob Zuma walked down the red carpet outside parliament in Cape Town on Thursday evening as a brass band blasted out South Africa's national freedom anthem, Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika, and cannons fired off a 21-gun salute. But the pomp and ceremony was short-lived. Zuma had barely started his State of the Nation address inside parliament when lawmakers from the far-left Economic Freedom Fighters...

Cheektowaga police have arrested seven people after a brawl broke out at the Walden Galleria Mall in suburban Buffalo. The Associated Press reported that the fight broke out Wednesday afternoon in front of Dick's Sporting Goods, after which it spread to a nearby coat store. As the fight began, one onlooker recorded it on his cell phone and uploaded it to YouTube. You can watch the full video below. Police eventually broke up the brawl and arrested five men and two women. They are: Charles Kelly, 20; Isaiah Sanders, 22; Isaiah Dunston, 22; Devon Skipper, 21; Samuel Cornish, 22; Ashley...

Security staff desperately tried to separate fighting groups at the Selfridges entrance on the lower level of the Bullring Shopping Centre in Birmingham. This is the moment a fight broke out in front of horrified shoppers at the Bullring Shopping Centre in Birmingham. Security staff at the store appear to come under attack from a group of men throwing punches near to the entrance to Selfridges. During the brawl the outnumbered security staff try bravely to stop the outbreak of violence, reports the Birmingham Mail. One man was arrested and has since been handed a police caution. The incident was...