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  • 21Dead Rabbits Riot — Part of History of New York City (1855 1897) View of fight between two gangs, the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery …

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  • 221967 Detroit riot — West Grand Blvd. at 12th Street in Detroit forty years later. The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street riot, was a civil disturbance in Detroit, Michigan, that began in the early morning hours of Sunday, July 23, 1967. The… …

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  • 23New York City Police Riot — of 1857 Part of History of New York City (1855–1897) Municipal and Metropolitan police fight in front of New …

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  • 241981 Brixton riot — See also: 1981 England riots and Brixton Riots 1981 Brixton Riots Bloody Saturday Police block the access to the main area of rioting. Image: Kim Aldis …

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  • 25Crown Heights riot — The Crown Heights Riot was a three day riot in the United States that occurred August 19–21, 1991. It took place in the Crown Heights neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Crown Heights was and currently remains a primarily West… …

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  • 26Reveillon riot — The Réveillon Riot occurred on 28 April 1789 [ [http://www.safarix.com/0131930370/app02lev1sec1 SafariX Textbooks Online SafariX is now CourseSmart ] ] in the St. Antoine district of Paris where a factory which produced luxury wallpaper was owned …

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  • 27Tompkins Square Park Riot (1988) — The Tompkins Square Park Riot occurred on August 6 ndash;August 7 1988 in New York City s Tompkins Square Park. Groups of drug pushers, homeless people and young people known as skinheads had largely taken over the East Village park, but the… …

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  • 28New Mexico State Penitentiary riot — The New Mexico Penitentiary Riot, which took place on February 2 and 3, 1980, in the state s maximum security prison south of Santa Fe, was one of the most violent prison riots in the history of the American correctional system: 33 inmates died… …

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  • 29Police riot — A police riot is a term used for the wrongful, disproportionate, unlawful, and illegitimate use of force by a group of police against a group of civilians. In recent incidents, the term often describes a situation where police, clad in riot gear… …

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  • 30Prison riot — A prison riot is a type of incident that occurs in the prison environment. It usually refers to a temporary event that is not a routine part of the everyday operation of the prison that involves an act of concerted defiance or disorder by a group …

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