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Contents 1 Town and Gown 2 Cronulla riots 3 The police typically use non-lethal weapons is POV? 4 counter-demonstration 5 major changes

[edit] Town and Gown

can someone explain what Town and Gown has to do with riots? its linked on the bottom. JoshDinger 00:40, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cronulla riots

How were the Cronulla riots not mostly or even entirely racially motivated? This needs to be expanded and explained, or the reference removed.--JackSlack 23:52, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The police typically use non-lethal weapons is POV?

"The police typically use non-lethal weapons" I think this is highly inaccurate as in many cases the use of so-called non-lethal weapons has resulted in fatalities of rioters or people involved even in a non violent demonstration (march etc) (i think rubber bullets are not strictly non-lethal!). Eg during protests demonstrations and riots against the 1968 Olympic Games of Mexico more than 200 people were killed in Mexico City alone(Tlatelolco Massacre), this cannot be considered collateral damage. I don't think it's about each one's political view, riots do occur due to social disaccord, opression and poverty, so the article indeed needs to be expanded.

[edit] counter-demonstration

why does "counter-demonstration" link here? if nobody objects I will create a section under the main Demonstration article and change the redirect to there, tho mentioning that clashes between demonstrators and counter-demonstrators are often the cause of riots. --Black Butterfly 20:43, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] major changes

Have re-written large parts of the article. Some things to bear in mind:

• Wikipedia is NOT the place for discussion of the role of the police with regards to anything other than riots. statements such as "the police, in their role protecting private property / citizens' rights" (I forget specific text) are not useful
• Nor is it a battleground on whether police actions during riots are justified. present information, do not judge.
• Nor is this article a place to archive racial and religious conflict in South Asia.

I have re-written large parts of the intro in accordance with the first two points, and removed part of the list of riots with regard to the last (have retained the section but removed most entries - please don't read anything into what entries were removed and which were kept, it was largely random).

Hopefully this should go some way towards improving the status of this article. --Black Butterfly 20:07, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, the countering riot police part seems like more of a guide on how to do it.

You probably should rid of that

Have moved the content into the police response section as it seemed more appropriate there; also re-worded parts of it.

In future, if you want an article editing, please do it yourself - that's what makes wikipedia work :). --Black Butterfly 12:37, 10 January 2007 (UTC)