A father who blamed police when his daughter was one of three schoolgirls to run away to Syria once joined a flag-burning crowd alongside convicted terrorists chanting "jihad".
Britain's embassy in Tehran has often been the scene of drama in the tense and troubled relationship between the two countries, and yesterday's attack by a furious, flag-burning crowd was a familiar experience, though no less unpleasant for those caught up in it.
Racing car sprays burning fuel into crowd Jump to media player Several people have been hurt after a car sprayed burning fuel into the crowd at an event in Australia.
For example, for weeks Verificado had been receiving messages about a video, in circulation on WhatsApp, of a crowd burning a man alive in the southern state of Tabasco.
That uncertainty dissipated an hour later, when a smaller youth faction began running through the crowd, burning flags and exploding aerosol cans.
Yet soon America's TV screens were full of burning police cars, crowds coughing on tear gas, and young black men throwing bricks and smashing shops.
However, the mood has turned nastier in the last week, with crowds burning Ukrainian flags, and many speaking about a "point of no return".
On October 29th, in a military-style operation, some 4,000 police, clubs banging on riot shields and backed by tear-gas, water cannon and helicopters, inched their way through barricades of burning buses and crowds of chanting protesters.
City officials were worried about a reprise of the 2009 riots that erupted in downtown Oakland, with crowds burning cars and smashing storefronts after Mr. Grant's shooting, which was captured on cellphone video and widely disseminated on the Internet.
Sound-systems enabled spontaneous raves amid the cops and burning benches, with crowds bobbing in time to the wacky syncopated beats and pitch-shifted vocals of Major Lazer's Pon De Floor.
One died in a gunfight after officers tried to stop the crowd from burning one house.
