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Rodney King, Key Figure In LA riots, Dies At 47
Associated PressRodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers led to some of the nation's most destructive race riots, has died at age 47. His death was confirmed to The Associate Press by Suzanne Wickham of Harper...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War
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300 Arrested at Occupy Protests in Oakland
OAKLAND—
Dozens of police maintained a late-night guard around City Hall in Oakland, California, following daylong protests that resulted in 300 arrests. Earlier, Occupy Oakland demonstrators broke into the historic building and burned a U.S. flag,...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Jeff Thomason, Arts, New York City, Activism
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Nights of rioting test Sweden's reputation for tolerance
LONDON -- Residents of Stockholm braced for more violence Friday after five consecutive nights of rioting that have rocked the Swedish capital and shaken the Scandinavian country’s self-image as a tolerant, liberal place. Since Sunday, sections of...
Tags: China, North Korea, Arts and Culture, Shootings, Aftonbladet (newspaper)
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Rioting raises questions about Sweden's liberal immigration policy and its inequality
Associated Press WriterHUSBY, Sweden (AP) — Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during rioting in several largely...Tags: Government, Migration, Shootings, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Immigration
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In Britain, terrorism suspected in man's hacking death
LONDON — As bystanders watched in horror, a man was hacked to death in broad daylight on a London street Wednesday and two suspects were shot and wounded by police, who are investigating the incident as a likely terrorist attack. The two...
Tags: David Cameron, Terrorism, Television Networks, Labor Legislation, Witnesses
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Rioting youths set fires, attack police, in Stockholm suburb, angered over police shooting
Associated PressSTOCKHOLM (AP) — Gangs of youth angered by the police shooting death of an elderly man in a mainly immigrant neighborhood hurled rocks at police and set cars and buildings on fire in a Stockholm suburb early Monday, forcing the evacuation of an...Tags: Shootings, Immigration, Stockholm (Sweden), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Panelists at IUSB discussion recall the rioting of 1967
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- Charlotte Pfeifer was a 20-year-old wife and mother when she watched part of the city burn. Pfeifer, a former member of the South Bend Common Council, on Thursday recalled her memories of civil rights unrest in South Bend in 1967, when...Tags: Justice and Rights, Civil Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Indiana University South Bend, Shootings
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Women's prayer at Western Wall sparks protest
JERUSALEM -- Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews flooded into the Old City’s Western Wall Plaza early Friday in a boisterous and sometimes violent protest against a group of female activists exercising a newly court-affirmed right to pray at the holy...
Tags: Christian Orthodoxy, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Feminism, Judaism, Religious Texts
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Probe set for LAPD response to party near USC
The first time the two Los Angeles Police Department officers walked to the backyard of an off-campus house party near USC, they had no problem with the crowd as they told the organizer to turn off the music and begin shutting down the party. The...
Tags: Minority Groups, Safety of Citizens, Government, Social Issues, Politics
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Black USC students accuse LAPD of bias after party clash
The Los Angeles Police Department opened an internal investigation into its response at an off-campus house party near USC amid complaints from some students that the department showed racial bias and used heavy-handed tactics. The incident occurred...
Tags: Government, Safety of Citizens, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Racism
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Thousands in Russia demand new elections, release of prisoners
This post has been corrected. See bottom for details. MOSCOW — In the biggest show of opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin since last May, thousands of demonstrators gathered Monday near the Kremlin to demand an immediate release of...
Tags: Embezzlement, Political Dissent, Russia, Activism, Pakistan
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France approves same-sex marriage
PARIS — The French Parliament on Tuesday approved a bill allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt, voting after months of often angry debate and sometimes violent protests in the streets. Members of the Socialist government chanted "Equality,...
Tags: Government, AIDS, Paris (France), Marriage, Family
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