Sentence examples for armed riots from inspiring English sources

He also advised James Meredith, the black student who desegregated the University of Mississippi and whose continued presence on campus required the government to call out the National Guard and units of the 82nd Airborne Division to quell armed riots.

Not far away, heavily armed riot police officers were maintaining their own roadblocks.

Then on Wednesday, thousands of people began massing in Bishkek, where they were met by heavily armed riot police officers.

Some marchers headed towards the presidential palace, but found their way barred by barbed wire and armed riot police.

Witnesses in Tripoli interviewed by telephone on Sunday night said protesters were converging on the capital's central Green Square and clashing with the heavily armed riot police.

Then, in December, investigators accompanied by squads of heavily armed riot police officers raided as many as seven rights groups, including four backed by American government funds.

Apparently enraged by the speech, protesters converged on Green Square soon after and clashed with heavily armed riot police officers for several hours, witnesses in Tripoli said by telephone.

Video broadcast on Russian television showed heavily armed riot police officers pulling men out of the market and pushing them into waiting buses.

In July 2005, he came under fire when armed riot police brutally broke up an illegal techno-music festival, injuring dozens of participants and policemen.

Armed riot police moved in to restore order with teargas, armoured vehicles and road blocks, according to a foreign student in Xinjiang.

And in December it culminated in raids by squads of heavily armed riot police officers that shut down a handful of foreign-financed nonprofit organizations, including the four American groups, seizing money, files and computers.