Word: rioting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...officer, about 15 feet from the nearest protester, idly drew his nightstick. A photographer rushed close to him, knelt and made ready to photograph the riot-ready policeman with nightstick drawn. The officer, noticing the man with the camera, quickly slid his baton back into his belt before the photographer could click the shutter open...
Police surrounded the scene. For the first time, they appeared in riot helmets. They stretched Nike golf gloves over their baton hands as they moved out from the yellow school buses toward the intersection. Thirty-five protesters linked arms in the center of the street...
Behind a surgical mask to filter the odor, police chief Willie Huff tells two officers in latex gloves to use riot shields and ease Big Earl to the floor while the others wrap blankets around him and slide him outside. A tall man, Huff cautiously leads the charge, clutching Earl, hoping not to hurt him and praying not to get sued. He knows mental patients don't belong in small-town jails, but where else can they go? What else...
PHIL JACKSON So there was a little riot. He's still ubercoach. Too bad he didn't run Bradley's campaign...
...time that decision came down, the rise and rise of Napster had made My.MP3.com look like a littering violation in the middle of a full-scale riot. And Robertson, because he disavows the Napster free-for-all and sees a future in which record companies get paid for online distribution, has suddenly become a man the music industry can do business with. The settlement deal MP3.com cut with Warner and BMG two weeks ago--whereby Robertson will pay $100 million in damages and get a license to run My.MP3.com in return--is only the beginning of a beautiful friendship...