More “Protest” vs. “Riot”
You’re not gonna believe this. In the very same article in the NYT, there’s the “Jews protest/blacks riot” distinction.
The lede of today’s dispatch reads:
A day after a protest by hundreds of Hasidic Jews over a 75-year-old man’s arrest, in which, the authorities said, two officers were assaulted, two police cars were damaged and two dozen bonfires were set, the police commissioner said yesterday that his department’s conduct had been appropriate.
Scroll down some paragraphs, and you find:
In December 1978, hundreds of residents took to the streets to protest the fatal stabbing of an elderly Jewish man, sparking riots that left at least 70 people injured, most of them police officers. Demonstrators stormed the 66th Precinct station house, fighting with officers and damaging property in the worst unrest the city had seen since riots in the 1960’s.
Within the very same paragraph, Jews protest (in a way that “sparked riots” — by whom, nobody apparently knows) and blacks riot!
April 6th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Passover rap
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Matzah what’s up with it?
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