Nearly three decades later, that area of Kansas City, the boyhood home of Walt Disney and the site of brutal riots after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, has hundreds of new homes, a library, two shopping malls and a less than stratospheric crime rate.
Headlines from Africa in 2008 recounted brutal riots in Kenya, a war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and election-driven chaos in Zimbabwe.
First, the spontaneous applause that broke out when the CRS, France's once infamous brutal riot police, passed in a phalanx of trucks.
Brutal, despairing riots swept across the ancient working-class neighborhoods near here less than a year ago, and vast public dollars devoted to sport could appear grotesque.
The brutal race riots in New York, vigorous opposition to the draft, and fierce partisan division between Republicans and Democrats over the Emancipation Proclamation contradict the notion that during the Civil War the North was united in opposing slavery.
The emotional pitch of World War I did not abate with the armistice, and rampant inflation, unemployment, massive and violent strikes, and brutal race riots in the United States contributed to a sense of fear and foreboding in 1919.
Mr. Scorsese only scrapes the surface of just how brutal this riot became, with mobs hanging, mutilating and even setting on fire men and women alike.
Months after he became chief minister, Gujarat erupted in brutal Hindu-Muslim riots that killed more than 1,000 people, most of them Muslims.
For many years, from Emancipation through the imposition of onerous racial restrictions by the Wilson Administration, climaxing in a brutal, white-sparked riot following the First World War, the upper stratum of the city's black population held to a proto-Harlem Renaissance ideal: demonstrate how civilized, intelligent, and accomplished we are, and racism will fade away.
Now the paper discusses whether to deem the outcry over a seemingly innocent young man's brutal killing a "#Riot, #Uprising, or #Disturbance"—though why the hashtags are essential here is beyond me.
The toughest of the latest sentences stemmed from the deadliest episode of the Meiktila riots: a brutal mob attack on an Islamic school that killed 36 people.
