Student riot

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Student riots, college riots, or campus riots are riots precipitated by students, generally from a college, university, or other school. Those riots often occur after football games, and can be seen as a form of hooliganism; however, sports are not always the cause of such riots. Generally speaking, while college riots were political in nature in the 1960s and the 1970s, riots can also be result of peaceful demonstration oppressed by the authorities. Although sometimes students and alcohol [1] combine to fuel college riots in recent years.

When college students gather this way, often they refuse to disperse when police come around and order them to disperse, and the result is, sometimes, the students will clash with the police. Results of student riots tend to include one or more of the following: broken storefront windows, burning furniture, overturned cars, general vandalism of property, injured police or bystanders (occasionally), arrested rioters or bystanders.

The riot can be combined with general strike, student strike and wider national protests.

The following are few examples of the student riot and demonstrations

• French May.
• German student movement.
• Tlatelolco massacre of students at Mexico.
• Opposition to the Vietnam War which started by students.