Sentence examples for rioters from inspiring English sources

The crime in this troubling work of art is not being perpetrated by "rioters", but by the police.

I'm not saying it lightly, I'm just saying someone would have got seriously, seriously hurt if [the rioters] had come back after they'd been chased away.

"Should we worry that the rioters were eight times more likely than the average Londoner to be stopped and searched, when the research found young rioters were 22 times more likely than their peers to have been convicted of a crime?" she asked.

"I believe the fact that one in five rioters in London were gang members is significant," she said.

The home secretary said aspects of the study's methodology concerned her, saying the research was disproportionately weighted towards London, focused too heavily on rioters and underplayed the role of criminality.

Given the accuracy of the masonry and missiles being directed at the police lines you could have been forgiven for thinking that some of the Ardoyne rioters would be ideal candidates for the javelin, discus and shot put teams of the British Olympic team for London 2012 … if of course they were ever prepared to join any entity with the word "British" in it.

This was when the term "French intifada" was first widely used by the media and by the rioters themselves.

The BBC has pulled a film about the experiences of rioters during last summer's disturbances just hours before it was due to be broadcast after a ruling from a judge.

May rejected rioters' assertions that the unrest was linked to alienation from the police or the government, dismissing concerns raised in the research report as "excuses".

Sometimes he would turn up drenched in the purple dye used by the army to identify rioters, and always he would be loquacious; eager for debate.

He said there were also issues in the second film, such as police officers talking about how rioters used BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) to communicate.