public violence

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public violence - a public act of violence by an unruly mob

violence, force - an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"

race riot - a riot caused by hatred for one another of members of different races in the same community

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A total of 189 arrests have been effected since Sunday for criminal acts including public violence, malicious damage to property and theft.

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Apart from the complaints against police officials, 178 complaints were made against public violence, 135 against illegal occupation of land, 92 against drug abuse, 85 against threats, 83 against cases of fraud, 61 pertaining to missing persons, 53 against robberies, 52 against snatching, 45 against theft and 22 against kidnapping.

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Such news has nothing to do with reality and aims to incite public violence," the authority's chairman Mohab Mamish stated.

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By focusing on the similarities between different generations and the things that cause public violence, we might just have a chance of fixing it.

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It was one of the worst outbursts of public violence in the city's history, and it was sparked by the arrival of the head of a growing campaign to end the Boer War - the future Liberal prime minister David Lloyd George.

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The dozens in court yesterday are accused of "committing public violence".

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Biti was charged with public violence and infringing on the country's electoral act when he unofficially announced the results of the just ended elections.

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Twenty-seven members of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have appeared in a Zimbabwe court on public violence charges.

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TWENTY-SEVEN members of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change appeared in a Zimbabwe court on public violence charges yesterday after their landslide defeat in the country's election.