Although some black leaders, including Jesse Jackson, blamed the city authorities for not having supervised the club properly, the race riot that might once have been expected never occurred.

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Critics have drawn parallels between Posh's Riot Club and the real-life Bullingdon Club (past members include David Cameron, George Osborne and Boris Johnson).

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After Honecker was removed in East Germany, 10, 000 citizens staged a pro-democracy demonstration in the Czechoslovakian capital until club-wielding riot police brought it to a violent end.

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The turmoil in Port Said, located on the Mediterranean coast at the mouth of the Suez Canal, started on Jan. 26, after a court issued death sentences against 21 defendants mostly Port Said residents for involvement in a deadly soccer riot in the city in February 2012 that killed 74 people, mostly fans of a rival Cairo soccer club, Al-Ahly.

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