Despite measures such as high visibility police patrols and setting up a homophobic attack hotline, police said it was decided the lay-bys should be closed in the interests of public safety to prevent further violence.
I've kept them more or less in check, thinking they might affront people of color in this whole public desire to do some cultural exchanges - lay bridges across raging waters, and all that.
Clinton, however, expressed confidence that U.S. diplomatic efforts will survive the leak of the documents, whose authenticity she would not confirm but which lay out in detail the diplomatic sausage-making that is usually hidden from public view.
Ms Rousseff has said that any pay rises will be limited to the lowest paid, or tied to productivity and that public money would be better directed to helping private companies avoid lay-offs.