All posts tagged "Violent Clashes"

Critics of former President Donald Trump have been warning that his violent rhetoric — for example, suggesting that former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley deserves to be executed and joking about a violent attack on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi — could have real-life consequences. Liberal Philadelphia Inquirer opinion columnist Will Bunch cites a recent incident in New Mexico as an example.

In that state, Ryan Martinez — a 23-year-old Trump supporter — got into a heated argument at a Native American rally, where he was a counterdemonstrator.

After someone knocked a red MAGA hat off Martinez's head, Bunch notes in his October 1 column, the New Mexico resident "pulled out a handgun and began shooting, striking and wounding an out-of-state environmental activist and member of the Hopi tribe named Jacob Johns."...

The Guardian reported on Friday that a second Iraq War veteran is in intensive care in an Oakland Hospital, with a lacerated spleen allegedly resulting from a beating by police during the protests on Wednesday night.

ATHENS (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied in front of the Greek parliament on Thursday after violent clashes the previous day as a general strike continued against a deeply unpopular austerity law expected to be approved later in the evening.

WASHINGTON – The United States on Monday ordered all non-essential staff to leave Libya and warned US nationals to avoid travel to the north African country as anti-government protests raged.