Even as protests have rippled out from Ferguson, few out-of-town demonstrators have journeyed north from Los Angeles to show solidarity.
That night, rumors spread that police were going to clear out groups of out-of-town demonstrators who were camped out in Potomac Park near the monuments and that they would flee to the college campuses.
Smoke was rising over many towns where demonstrators had lit fires in the streets and police used tear gas and water cannon.
In some towns, angry demonstrators looted stores and clashed with security forces, resulting in the death of a police officer.
The unstinting pressure — "Wanted" signs bearing her photo posted up around town, throngs of demonstrators amassed outside the places where she worked — often drove Wicklund to tears.
Across town, pro-Chávez demonstrators came out for a rally today that had been planned weeks ago to celebrate Mr. Chávez's 1998 election.
As agitation with the holding center increased, Martu tried to reassure his neighbors, but, a couple of hours after Fahnbulleh left for Clara Town, hundreds of demonstrators pushed through the gates and stormed the schoolhouse.
Crackdown From Rangoon to Mandalay and down the Irrawaddy river to the small town of Pakokku, demonstrators and politicians were rounded up in the crackdown against the greatest challenge to the 400,000-strong army's hegemony in a generation.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — When protests erupted in March in the forlorn Syrian border town of Dara'a, demonstrators burned the president's portraits, then set ablaze an unlikely target: the local office of the country's largest mobile phone company, Syriatel, whose owner sits at the nexus of anger and power in a restive country.
Only in Baniyas and Jassem, a town near Dara'a, were demonstrators able to mass in larger protests.
At one point Mr Wang emerged onto People's Square in the centre of town to address the demonstrators, promising harsh treatment for the perpetrators of the stabbings.
