riot

They made one last charge for the airport, and when the riot police blocked them again a melee ensued.

And this is the prevailing attitude that white St. Louis fears the most: an all out riot, anarchy, lawlessness, disorder.

Riot police eventually converged from the flanks, hundreds at first, then hundreds more, with shields and batons.

The riot police advanced on the crowd and the crowd gave some ground but did not retreat.

A battalion of riot police armed with shotguns  arrived on the scene.

The exertions of the city authorities, who had notice of the meditated riot, were unable to prevent or quell it.

Monsieur de Tressan was here, as ill-luck would have it, and Gaubert implored him to send soldiers thither to quell the riot.

A special assistant of the United States marshal was killed, but the object of the riot was not effected.

Seven months later Captain Preston and other soldiers implicated in the riot were tried before a Boston jury.

The Italian ecclesiastic Gavazzi, lectured at Quebec, and gave rise to a riot.