The police then again charged the mob, and a number of serious scuffles occurred, but all the people were eventually cleared off the grounds.
It seems that Sri Lanka and the US are currently engaged in a serious diplomatic scuffle in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
There were no figures on injuries but Klitschko said several protesters had been hurt, while police said at least 10 of their officers had suffered serious injuries in the scuffles.
There were no serious disturbances, and barely any scuffles, to disrupt an event that had the rare distinction, for a deceased prime minister, of the attendance at the cathedral of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, who were among the 2,300 invited guests at the funeral.
The McKinley scuffle was the only serious incident reported.
Once minor scuffles had escalated into serious public order offences in slow-burning fashion, stewards left matters in the hands of the police, who arrived with batons but were then driven back when confronted at a gangway as they tried to restore some measure of control.
Despite his drug use and intermittent scuffles, Mr. Comello had no serious run-ins with the law before this year.
There have been scuffles at recent demonstrations but serious trouble has been avoided largely by scheduling rival protests on different days or different places.
Teenagers at one maximum-security center in Kansas City could recall only three scuffles in the last year, none serious.
The whole spirit was one of ebullient contempt for the pretensions of power; an action that, despite some scuffles and arrests, resulted in no serious injuries, or even any serious property damage.
One day, I watched as a small scuffle grew into something that sounded extremely serious.
