(1) Witnesses reported Uighur rioters attacking Han Chinese people and state television showed them attacking passing vehicles.
(2) Rioters revealed that a complex mix of grievances brought them on to the streets but analysts appointed by the LSE identified distrust and antipathy toward police as a key driving force.
(3) A young unemployed father of two said he had begun his day buying shoes in JD Sports in town when rioters stormed the shop.
(4) Freddie Gray protests sweep US from Baltimore to New York – as it happened Read more Protests over the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray spread across the US overnight as the city at the centre of the storm used national guard troops to help maintain a curfew and authorities were forced into an apparent backdown after holding suspected rioters for days without charge.
(5) Britain's most senior prosecutor has questioned whether heavy sentences given to last summer's rioters worked as an effective deterrence, challenging the received wisdom from senior judges and politicians.
(6) As rioters continued to torch vehicles and stone police lines several officers were injured by projectiles.
(7) • Most prosecutors – in contrast to Starmer – fully endorsed the sentencing approach by judges that saw rioters receive an average sentence of 16.8 months, making the penalties four and half times longer than the average jail term for similar offences in 2010.
(8) Saunders also attacked a branch of Tesco with a shovel and handed out looted property to other rioters.
(9) All the evidence suggests rioters were generally poorer than the country at large, and educated to a lower level.
(10) The August rioters were ethnically mixed, but most shared an experience of economic deprivation.
(11) Early today rioters burned the main train station in Tunis to the ground.
(12) An estimated 2,000 people gathered in Summerfield Park, near Winson Green, to show unity and solidarity against the rioters.
(13) Nevertheless, the figures will come as a fillip to European leaders after a turbulent spring when the eurozone was threatened with collapse as the single currency was hammered on the financial markets and rioters took to the streets of Athens to protest at austerity measures.
(14) I don't believe the anger many of these rioters were displaying was wrong: Their actions were wrong, but for many, the anger came from a very real disempowerment.
(15) The prime minister said the government will review whether it is possible to stop suspected rioters spreading online messages, in his opening statement during a Commons debate on Thursday on the widespread civil disorder for which MPs were recalled from their summer recess.
(16) Some of the rioters at the embassy on Tuesday held aloft pictures of the Quds Force commander, Qassem Suleimani, around whom a personality cult is developing.
(17) It initially suggested the alleged rioters were dead, but then ran a correction saying they were only wounded.
(18) Rioters are seen smashing up parts of the building to create missiles to hurl at police officers guarding a sectarian boundary close to the Catholic Short Strand area.
(19) Approximately 20 police officers with riot gear and batons entered the kettle shortly before 8pm, with police officers saying it could be another five or six hours before the rioters were dispersed.
(20) More than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed by rioters.
Rooter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.