The shooting last Sunday set off three days of protests by people who felt that the shooting was an unfair and unnecessary use of police force.
The killing of Peter Fechter set off five days of riotous demonstrations by West Berliners, many of whom were bitterly resentful because no Americans went to the aid of the wounded refugee.
The scene plays twice in the film: once near the beginning, just before the story flashes back to events set off four days earlier, and again near the end, when that story comes full circle.
The year before, a one-paragraph item in Newsweek alleging that guards at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, had flushed a Koran down the toilet set off three days of riots that left 14 people dead in Afghanistan.
The decision set off three days of rioting, which left 53 people dead, about 2,500 injured and more than $400 million in property damage, mostly in the South-Central neighborhood.
The pre-dawn raid by hard-line security forces and vigilantes, which came hours after students rallied against the banning of a liberal newspaper, set off six days of nationwide protests by tens of thousands of students -- the worst unrest in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
In the summer of 1965, a hostile encounter between police officers and an African-American family set off six days of protests in South Central Los Angeles, which would be known as the Watts Riot, resulting in the deaths of 34 people, almost 4,000 arrests, and more than $40 million in property damage.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban attacked Afghan police posts in a violent and long-contested corner of southern Afghanistan, setting off two days of clashes that left at least six police officers dead, Afghan officials said Tuesday, though the American-led coalition played down the violence as little more than "drive-by shootings".
In his fury, he shoots into the street and hits a driver who ploughs into some schoolchildren, setting off three days of riots in which many are killed.
