In May 1953, an inter-ethnic riot arose due to southern newspapers misreporting on the nature of a disagreement between northern and southern politicians in the House of Representatives.

The Met had previously used an on-site Designated Senior Officer in policing the Notting Hill Carnival, to decide whether to employ baton rounds should a riot develop, but the situation never arose.

Meanwhile, also in the summer of 1866, a riot broke out in New Orleans when radicals, with strong opposition from conservatives, sought to re-convene the Louisiana Convention of 1864.

*" 13 killed as paratroops break riot " from The Guardian, Monday 31 January 1972

Nitrian monks came from the desert and instigated a riot against Orestes among the population of Alexandria.

In the United States, hate speech is protected as a civil right ( aside from usual exceptions to free speech, such as defamation, incitement to riot, and fighting words ).

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.

* 1946 – In San Francisco Bay, U. S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz federal prison.

* 1969 – People's Park: California Governor Ronald Reagan has an impromptu student park owned by University of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot called Bloody Thursday.

The direct ancestor to the shotgun, the blunderbuss, was also used in a similar variety of roles from self defence to riot control.

There, the Lutheran majority barred the Catholic residents of the Swabian town from holding an annual Markus procession, which provoked a riot.

The events of the riot were long omitted from local and state history ; " The Tulsa race riot of 1921 was rarely mentioned in history books, classrooms or even in private.

Since 1915, the Ku Klux Klan was growing in urban chapters across the Midwest, particularly since veterans had been returning from the war ; it made its first major appearance in Oklahoma later that year on August 12, 1921, less than three months after the riot.

* February 18 – A jury finds the Chicago Seven defendants not guilty of conspiring to incite a riot, in charges stemming from the violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

The extraordinary potential of radio news showed itself in 1930, when CBS suddenly found itself with a live telephone connection to a prisoner called " The Deacon " who described, from the inside and in real time, a riot and conflagration at the Ohio State Penitentiary ; for CBS, it was " a shocking journalistic coup.

It is Wahn which causes the riot in Act 2 — a sequence of events arising from a case of mistaken identity, which can be seen as a form of self-delusion.

After a riot in Bristol in 1980, Powell asserted that the media were ignoring similar events in south London and Birmingham, and claimed: " Far less than the foreseeable New Commonwealth and Pakistan ethnic proportion would be sufficient to constitute a dominant political force in the United Kingdom able to extract from a government and the main parties terms calculated to render its influence still more impregnable.

The first type, riot shields, are used for riot control and can be made from metal or polymers such as polycarbonate Lexan or Makrolon or boPET Mylar.

When his workmen arrived to dismantle the cross, they were prevented from doing so by the people of the city, who " organised a small riot " and they were forced to abandon their task.

A police captain from Hyde Park lost an arm in the riot.

Another example of this pacification can be taken from the years revolving around 1896 in which the British empire destroyed large amounts of grain and food stocks, suppressing a riot being formed by the Ndeblee tribe.

Around 9 p. m. a team from the Special Operations Group of the Tasmania Police had arrived and were eventually able to assist in removing the policemen from the ditch to safety by using the cover of darkness, riot shields and bulletproof jackets.

On Fructidor 10 and 11 ( 27 August and 28 August 1796 ), when the prisoners were removed from Paris, there were tentative efforts at a riot with a view to rescue, but these were easily suppressed.

Trouble once again erupted in the town, when England were knocked out of the 2006 world cup by Portugal, and there were clashes between riot police and fans from England and Portugal.

In April 1873, white militia from Winn Parish joined in the Colfax Massacre in neighboring Grant Parish, putting down what they called a riot by freedmen as an aftermath to the disputed gubernatorial election of 1872.

Lilburne took up their cause, assisted by his friend, John Wildman, and headed a riot ( 19 October 1650 ), by means of which the commoners sought to obtain possession of the disputed lands.

A cricket match in 1776 between men from the Kent and Essex sides of the Thames allegedly ended in bloodshed when guns were seized from the guardroom ; it was reported that an Essex man was shot dead, an elderly invalid was bayonetted and a sergeant was shot trying to quell the riot, but this account is disputed.

The site of the Babri Mosque which was surrounded on all sides by Mata Sita Rasoi ( Lord Rama's wife Sita Devi's Kitchen-actually a Temple and other Temples of Hanuman ) and the disputed structure sharing walls with Sita and Hanuman Mandir was destroyed when a political rally developed into a riot involving 150, 000 people.

An opposition rally of 1, 000 people in Balykchy on election day was broken up by riot police.

2008 riot in Mongolia | Violent protests that followed the June 2008 election resulted in damage to MPRP Headquarters

* 2006 – Protesters demanding a new election in Belarus, following the rigged Belarusian presidential election, 2006, clash with riot police.

There was a general riot by the Ghibelline party in Rome when news of his election got out, but peace was maintained by the aid of King Ladislaus of Naples, who hastened to Rome with a band of soldiers to assist the Pope in suppressing the insurrection.

Four years later, with the new Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in attendance on the eve of a general election, a riot broke out on Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day.

Three days later, after a protracted count which saw presidential results in Kibaki's Central Kenya come in last, allegedly inflated, in a cloud of suspicion and rising tensions, amid vehement protests by Raila's ODM, overnight re-tallying of results and chaotic scenes, all beamed live on TV, at the national tallying center at the Kenyatta International Conference Center in Nairobi, riot police eventually sealed off the tallying Center ahead of the result announcement, evicted party agents, observers and the media, and moved the Chairman of the Electoral Commission, Samuel Kivuitu, to another room where Kivuitu went on to declare Kibaki the winner by 4, 584, 721 votes to Odinga's 4, 352, 993, placing Kibaki ahead of Odinga by about 232, 000 votes in the hotly contested election with Kalonzo Musyoka a distant third.

The media captured the events and reactions at the time thus :" Previously regarded as a gentlemanly leader with a passion for golf, Kibaki has revealed a steely side. With a reputation as a mild-mannered, old-school gentleman ,... Kibaki, 76, showed a steely core by swearing himself in within an hour of being pronounced victor in an election denounced as fraudulent by opposition challenger Raila Odinga and questioned by international and Kenyan observers. Odinga's supporters said he would be declared president at a rival ceremony on Monday, but police banned the event hundreds of riot police sealed off the proposed venue, Uhuru Park for several days.

Critics allege that Penelas ' failure to intervene in the Dade County ballot controversy, including failing to provide adequate security at the Dade County Building during the Brooks Brothers riot, was a contributing factor to George W. Bush's ultimate victory in the controversial election.

The same election also resulted in a major race riot in Kuala Lumpur.

Shepshed had a riot on election day in 1868, two hundred policemen were brought into the village the next day and 33 arrests were made ( 13 of the rioters being sentenced to 3 months imprisonment ).

He joined with Orangemen and Protestants who had deserted Whiteway's government in the wake of the riot to create a new party, the Reform Party as a Protestant Rights organization and swept to power in the 1885 election making Thorburn the new premier.

One example is the riot in 2006 following the general election in the Solomon Islands.

During the 2000 election, Sweeney allegedly helped earn his nickname from President Bush, " Congressman Kickass ," by organizing the so-called Brooks Brothers riot that disrupted the Florida elections commissioners.

The Plug Uglies were the central figures in the first election riot in Baltimore in October 1855.

Following the " Hard Hat riot " of May 8, 1970, Brennan was wooed by the Nixon administration as a potential supporter in the 1972 presidential election.

On October 30, a Congolese army officer, alleged to have been drunk, shot and killed two election officials in the town of Fataki, which provoked a riot.

The election sparked a riot on 14 December, which resulted in the military being called out.

The reaction to the riot was felt throughout the United States and led to the Republican Party taking control of both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate in the United States House election, 1866.

His victory was marred by a riot that erupted when a group of students marching to city hall to protest Hawrelak's re-election victory were met by a mob loyal to the mayor, leading the Edmonton Journal-which was regularly critical of Hawrelak-to speculate that the mob was organized by the same people who " toured meetings during the recent election campaign with the sole purpose of preventing anti-Hawrelak candidates from speaking ".