Heracleides of Pontus asserts that the crowd watching the play tried to stone Aeschylus.

City authorities tried to find an ordinance forbidding it, to the joy of the crowd, they were unsuccessful.

Latest history says ( Vladimir Dedijer ) that the person who's being arrested is Ferdinand Behr, German by nationality who tried to save Gavrilo's life not to be beaten by the crowd.

But instead of paying up, local police officers panicked and tried to get rid of Miss Phombeya ( now visibly parading her anger in front of the verandah restaurant ) in the process hurting her toe ; whereupon a crowd soon gathered outside Ryall's Hotel and quickly the mood shifted from the ' hurting toe ' to protesting the imprisonment of Banda and other local leaders by the federation government.

The police tried to restrain some of the crowd, and knocked a few people down, which incited bystanders even more.

The sheriff went outside and tried to talk the crowd into going home, but to no avail.

The chief of police, John A. Gustafson, later claimed that he tried to talk the crowd into going home.

The Czech rector Karel Domin gave a speech to urge the crowd to attack, while the outnumbered German students tried to resist.

At the hotel in Boston, the rabid crowd clawed at the newlyweds, Burton's coat was ripped and Taylor's ear was bloodied when someone tried to steal one of her earrings.

The band's frontman Fred Durst claimed the band had attempted to take precautions that fell on deaf ears, " We begged, we screamed, we sent letters, we tried to take precautions, because we are Limp Bizkit, we know we cause this big emotional blister of a crowd ".

The arena's organist tried to calm down the crowd by playing the Star Spangled Banner.

The National Guard under Lafayette tried to disperse the crowd without the use of violence.

Afterward, a crowd of 5-6 thousand persons gathered around and while chanting bhajans and raising religious slogans tried to enter the mosque but were deferred.

The head of the Detroit militia, himself, tried to prevent the boat leaving at swordpoint and the U. S. marshal's force was reported to have fired into the air, but the local crowd supported the Patriot movement and the boat was taken to Gibraltar.

Even so, the first two officers who tried to surrender were killed by Indians, and after Scott had personally waved a white flag ( actually Totten's white cravat ), excited Indians continued to fire from the heights into the crowd of Americans on the river bank below for several minutes.

Caray and Piersall, via the public address system, tried to calm the crowd and implored them to return to their seats, in vain.

When the other Frenchmen tried to avenge their comrade the Sicilian crowd fell upon them, killing them all.

In panic many Poles tried to escape, but the Germans immediately opened fire with machine guns into the crowd: this lasted over 10 minutes and ended only when some German soldiers were wounded by mistake.

He generally tried to force the action in his bouts, a crowd pleasing style which won him many supporters.

On one occasion in July 1962 this led to a riot in London's Trafalgar Square, when Jordan tried to address a crowd while standing in front of a large banner which read: “ Free Britain from Jewish Control ”.

He was tried at the High Court of Justiciary on 5 July 1736, where a majority of witnesses testified that Porteous had personally fired into the crowd on 14 April, although sixteen others said they had not seen him do so.

He was tried at the High Court of Justiciary on 5 July 1736, where a majority of witnesses testified that Porteous had personally fired into the crowd on 14 April, although sixteen others said they had not seen him do so.

Bradna and the ushers unsuccessfully tried to maintain some order as the panicked crowd tried to flee the big top.

Later, protestors surrounded a police car and attempted to overturn it, but were met by gunshots in the air, and quickly afterwards, shots into the crowd itself.

All went home happy except the Newport police, who feared that the throng departing at 6:35 might meet head-on the night crowd drawing nigh, and those deprived of their happy hour at the cocktail bar.

With minimal police training, their main role was to increase the strength of police posts, where they functioned as sentries, guards, escorts for government agents, reinforcement to the regular police, and crowd control, and mounted a determined counter-insurgency campaign.

* 1976 – Soweto uprising: a non-violent march by 15, 000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.

Some English players later expressed fears that a large-scale riot could break out and that the police would not be able to stop the irate home crowd, who were worried that Woodfull or Bradman could be killed, from attacking them.

The police fire into the crowd.

Having been tipped off by the arrival of police and helicopters that a bombing suspect was inside, a restless crowd began to gather outside the jail.

Within minutes, between 100 and 150 people had congregated outside, some after they were released from inside the Stonewall, and some after noticing the police cars and the crowd.

Although the police forcefully pushed or kicked some patrons out of the bar, some customers released by the police performed for the crowd by posing and saluting the police in an exaggerated fashion.

" Coins sailed through the air towards the police as the crowd shouted " Pigs!

" Beer cans were thrown and the police lashed out, dispersing some of the crowd, who found a construction site nearby with stacks of bricks.

Some in the crowd were hospitalized, and four police officers were injured.

Kick lines and police chases waxed and waned ; when police captured demonstrators, whom the majority of witnesses described as " sissies " or " swishes ", the crowd surged to recapture them.

; 1866: An angry crowd in London, protesting against John Russell's resignation as Prime Minister, is barred from Hyde Park by the police ; they tear down iron railings and trample on flower beds.

* A huge crowd at the Welsh Grand National at Ely Racecourse, Cardiff, almost overwhelms police trying to keep out gatecrashers.

The night of the Haymarket Riot in 1886, Harrison walked unmolested through the crowd of anarchists and advised the police to leave the demonstrators alone.

When the first patrol wagon arrived, Inspector Pine recalled that the crowd — most of whom were homosexual — had grown to at least ten times the number of people who were arrested, and they all became very quiet.

" Pennies, then beer bottles, were thrown at the wagon as a rumor spread through the crowd that patrons still inside the bar were being beaten.

" After an officer picked her up and heaved her into the back of the wagon, the crowd became a mob and went " berserk ": " It was at that moment that the scene became explosive ".

" An amazing crowd of 362 kids showed up with homemade cars built of orange crates, sheet tin, wagon and baby-buggy wheels ...."

: He dispersed the crowd very simply by telling them he'd send for the pie wagon and take them all down to the station house if they didn't twenty-three skidoo.