Latest Riots News

Violent clashes break out in Dublin after knife attack that injured 3 children, one seriously

Nov. 24, 2023 00:11 AM EST

LONDON (AP) — Violent clashes broke out in central Dublin on Thursday evening, with vehicles torched and riot police attacked, after a 5-year-old girl was seriously injured in a knife attack earlier in the day that also saw a woman and two other young children hospitalized. Irish...

Ohio man sentenced to nearly 5 years in prison for attacks on police during Capitol riot

Nov. 16, 2023 17:38 PM EST

An Ohio man who repeatedly attacked police officers as he joined a mob of Donald Trump supporters in storming the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Thursday to nearly five years in prison. Kenneth Joseph Owen Thomas has acted as a “one-man misinformation machine” since the Jan. 6,...

The police officer suspected in French teen's killing that set off riots has been freed during probe

Nov. 15, 2023 15:28 PM EST

PARIS (AP) — A police officer being investigated in the killing of a 17-year-old of North African origin that touched off riots around France was freed from jail Wednesday while the probe continues. The prosecutor’s office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, where Nahel Merzouk was...

Former Fox News reporter says in lawsuit he was fired after challenging Jan. 6 coverage

Nov. 13, 2023 21:26 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Fox News reporter says in a lawsuit he was targeted and fired for pushing back against false claims about the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In the suit moved to federal court Monday, producer Jason Donner said he was part of a “purge” of...

Detainees burn bedsheets during South Carolina jail riot, more than a dozen charged

Nov. 13, 2023 15:22 PM EST

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — More than a dozen detainees are facing charges after a fiery riot at a South Carolina jail that is already subject to a federal civil rights investigation, authorities said. The Richland County Sheriff’s Department and Columbia Fire Department responded to a...

Ex-State Department official sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison for Capitol riot attacks

Nov. 03, 2023 21:05 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Marine Corps veteran who served as a politically appointed State Department official in former President Donald Trump's administration was sentenced on Friday to nearly six years in prison for attacking police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. ...

Israeli envoy to Russia says Tel Aviv passengers hid from weekend airport riot in terminal

Nov. 01, 2023 10:59 AM EDT

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Israel’s ambassador to Moscow gave new details Wednesday of the weekend riot at an airport in southern Russia when a flight from Tel Aviv landed there, saying some of the passengers had to hide in the terminal before being flown by helicopter to safety. ...

Two Missouri men accused of assaulting officers during riot at the U.S. Capitol charged

Oct. 31, 2023 10:40 AM EDT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Two Missouri men accused of assaulting police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot, including pushing bike racks that were being used as barricades into a police line, have been charged. Jared Luther Owens, 41, of Farmington, and Jason William Wallis, 49, of St....

Maryland police officer suspended after arrest on Capitol riot charges

Oct. 20, 2023 16:08 PM EDT

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A Maryland police officer who fatally shot a stabbing suspect earlier this year was arrested Thursday on charges that he assaulted police during a mob's Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Montgomery County Police Department said in a news...

Brazil's Bolsonaro should be charged with attempting to stage a coup, congressional panel says

Oct. 18, 2023 22:44 PM EDT

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian congressional panel on Wednesday accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of instigating the country’s Jan. 8 riots and recommended that he be charged with attempting to stage a coup. An inquiry panel of senators and representatives mostly allied...