"It was a bunch of drunk, emotional people on a rampage". Dozens of young men burned two LAPD patrol cars, damaged at least 74 other vehicles at nearby auto dealerships, tore branches from trees, hurled road-construction barriers through store windows and set fire to trash cans.
Twelve firefighters, one emergency medical technician, one fire patrol officer and three police officers were treated at local hospitals for minor injuries including smoke inhalation, burns and bruises, officials said.
QUSRA, West Bank — In this Palestinian village where a mosque was defaced and cars were burned, young men now patrol nightly against settler intruders.
In the day's battles in Tepatepec, one policeman was shot, seven people -- including police officers and protesters -- were injured and possibly a dozen police patrol cars were burned, said the state government spokesman, Luis Kaim.
An antenna tower lies on its side crushing a lonely burned-out patrol car.
Stones are thrown, tires are burned, gasoline bombs are hurled at patrolling soldiers.
To the south, another patrol was removing two other freshly burned tankers from the highway, clearing the lanes so traffic could pass.
A passing patrol discovered that the village had been burned and abandoned because of an attack of crop pestilence and human disease.
One day, seven years after arriving in Borneo, Oerip returned from patrol to find his home had been burned down.
But Mr Sarkozy, citing statistics that show 30 police patrols are stoned and as many cars burned every night on France's low-income housing estates, is unrepentant.
