1.   Demonstrators ripped down imperial statues.

2.   Organizers broadcast repeated appeals for calm over loudspeakers, while police countered with accusations that the demonstrators had ripped up paving and attacked officers.

3.   In a traditional Jewish mourning ritual, demonstrators ripped their shirt collars and read prayers.

4.   Syrian demonstrators ripped the flag from the U.S. Embassy in Damascus and burned it.

5.   The tear gas was used after authorities said the demonstrators ripped cobblestones from the street and hurled them at police lines.