#9
This picture was taken at the Amona outpost, West Bank, when armed-to-the-teeth riot police raided the unarmed shanty-town to evict the settlers.
#8
This was taken during the protests in Greece after their economy collapsed back in spring of 2010. When their government agreed to severe austerity
measures that cut wages and benefits to public servants, and raised taxes on the rest of the citizens, but left the higher-ups largely untouched, the
protests quickly turned into full-blown riots.
#7
This is Ahn Sang-gyu, a South Korean bee farmer in a 2006 protest about a territorial dispute between Japan and Korea. He says he chose to cover
himself with "187,000 bees to represent the 187,000 square meter dimensions of the islets" in contention.
#6
Though it looks like he's caught in the middle of a 12 hit combo -- just after landing the fireball but right before the flying dragon kick -- this is
actually a man in the midst of firebombing an empty policetruck during the anti-Mubarak riots in Egypt.
#5
The context is unclear even in the original Al Jazeera photo, so we can't say if he caused that explosion, or if he just sort of appears out of the
ether whenever there is an explosion.
#4
This is yet a third Egyptian protester who decided to pull a dukes of Hazzard on these riot police
#3
This dairy farmer was protesting the EU headquarters in Brussels over rapidly falling milk prices.
#2
This image was taken in South Korea during the APEC protests in 2005, when thousands of union workers tried to storm a meeting of the Pacific Rim
leaders to protest a bill that opened their rice markets to foreign powers.
#1
It was at the 2001 Summit of the Americas in Quebec City that he captured a true "Canuck Rioteer"
I added the last one, but you can see the full photo outlines here:
www.cracked.com...edit on 7-4-2011 by CanadianDream420 because: (no
reason given)