Have you ever been in a riot?

[LostInAnomie]

If so, what started it? What did you do? What was the end result?

[Zoigal]

1. Not a full blown one,,,

but kind of mini riots..once in the Zocalo in Mexico City...a Communist group that
got a bit out of hand and started yelling "Gringos, go home" type of comments.

During a teachers' strike in Oregon. Lot of people got arrested, and some were
roughed up. Watching both escalate was a bit scary.

[ruiner4u]

2. Kinda...

Here in cincy we had a minor one a few years ago.. I was working nights within the "city of" and had to carry a letter from my boss at night to show the cops in case i was stopped going home <after curfew and all>...

What started it? A white cop shot and killed a black youth who showed a gun...

End result? very very bad race relations...

[Bjornsdotter]

3. Yeah, sorta

...high school football game, didn't go well with our arch enemy. There were Chicago Mounted Police and officers everywhere during the game.

End result....some were arrested, lots were beat up and we mooned the opposing team on the Kennedy on the way home.

Cheers

[Ptah]

4. No, however, I was one of about 250,000

in Washington DC when Nixon surrounded the whitehouse with city buses.

back in the day.

[petronius]

5. I was around a bunch of them when I was an undergrad at Cal

They started for a variety of reasons - I generally stood around with my :WTF: expression.

End results were pretty much all the same: yelling, broken glass, burning trash cans, occasional tear gas, and much cracking of heads...

[datasuspect]

6. back when the bulls won all those championships

mid 90s

[flying rabbit]

7. Yep, KU KState riot in Manhattan KS

Happened every time they played the toilet bowl there. Got laid in an alley by a hot wildcat fan. Not a bad night-the hangover was, well, intense.

[Blue-Jay]

8. Not on purpose.

I was just trying to walk home at the time.

[rug]

9. Technically it was an affray.

At Columbia Point, Boston at a May Day demonstration in 1975. It was attacked by the antibusing crowd that was throwing rocks all year at school buses that were desegregating South Boston schools. Four of us were arrested.

The charge was "Concerned in Affray".

Massachusetts is quaint.

Interesting weekend. The next day the NLF took Saigon.

[krispos42]

10. Sorta

UConn basketball (not sure of the gender) in the NCAA tourney. The Huskies win. Students turn out to celebrate. Things start getting rowdy in the quad. Bonfire. Furniture. Garbage cans. Mattresses. The riot police start gathering on the periphery. Girls are flashing their bras. Someone blasts "Welcome to the Jungle" from a dorm window (the dorm was nicknamed "The Jungle"). I'm in the crowd, observing the chaos and eyeing the girls. Got my dorm key firmly in my hand.

Finally the students start tearing down trees with the intention of tossing them in the fire. Police start moving in. Shields, helmets, batons in a line move towards the bonfire. Students run like hell inside. Confusion at the doors for a minute or two as inebriated students try to queue up and tackle the stairs.

Police hold the quad while the firemen put out the bonfire, then they withdraw.


SOP for sports celebrations. The students get really destructive during Spring Weekend, and the police get really busy with the pepper spray in response. For God sake, don't park your car in the X-Lot during that time, unless you like automobile flambé.

[BlueCollar]

11. several

during the early-mid seventies when I lived in England I used to go to Saturday Football matches.

I'd hang out in the stands with whatever team was playing at home. In London there was always a home game or two or three to pick from. Visiting fans would try to take over that section of the stadium that was occupied.

Lots of fists and feet flying...result was bloody noses etc...

Millwall and West Ham fans were the worst but almost every club had it's "firm"

I have no idea what the hell motivated me to engage in that type of behaviour.

[Alexander]

17. Reminds me of the movie "Green Street Hooligans"...

A film with Elijah Wood about FC firms.

"I have no idea what the hell motivated me to engage in that type of behaviour."

That's pretty much the moral of the story.

[stuntcat]

12. Riot.

I love that word :headbang: :headbang:
I've never been in one, I'd just get trampled.

[Roon]

13. MLK parade here in Denver

I just ran around watching every thing, I didn't do anything destructive. Rocks through the windows,innocent bystanders attacked, robbed liquor store. Tear gas, mace, fun fun!!

[trof]

14. I was in a Panty Raid many years ago.

Didn't quite rise to the level of riot though.

[Midlodemocrat]

15. Yup. Miami - 1980 after the death of McDuffie at the hands

of four cops. Inadvertently got caught in Overton when the riots spread to there. Pretty scary stuff, that's for sure.

[Inchworm]

16. I also was in the 1980 Miami riots indirectly

I lived in Dania at the time and was playing around the Ft Lauderdale airport as a kid. Hmm.. I was 11 years old I guess.

2 grown men stopped their car on Perimeter Road and got out with baseball bats. I ran like a scalded dog with them in chase. I made it to the neighborhood where houses were and screamed bloody murder. The 2 still chased me until I ran to a man mowing his lawn. They retreated and I about pissed myself.

Not at all fun then...

:hi:

[Left Is Write]

18. No, but I might have caused a couple.

:P

[AngryAmish]

19. Gulf War I - outside Sonic Youth/Public Enemy concert

People said the police went nuts on some protesters.

Well, if they did they had it coming. They stopped traffic and were using a bullhorn at 11 pm on a Sunday night. A lot of people live in that neighborhood and were probably asleep. I wasn't in the riot (I was sitting on the sidelines waiting for my ride). So a few kids from the suburbs got tuned up, big deal. John Cusack made a big deal out of it in the press and the arrestees got money. Jerks.

[Withywindle]

20. Yup - Tompkins Square Park, NYC, August 1988

Huge (I mean, with helicopters) dust-up between cops and anti-gentrification squatters/anarchists. Tons of beatings and many blocks impassable.

The most "fun" part from my POV? I'd been at the demonstration briefly but ducked into a bar with a friend I had no business trying to go drink-for-drink with (about exactly twice my weight) and was SHITFACED. The gods protect drunks, children, and idiots and I was all three.