2:30 PM Warsaw Poland
It has been several days of non violent standoff in Warsaw and the authorities have grown quite impatient with the whole situation, so today they decide to march on the growing movement in the park. Police spend the day preparing riot shields and bringing fire trucks and Armored Riot Control Vehicles to the scene. Seeing this, the gathered crowd realizes that Police will raid the park incredibly soon and 180 leave immediately not wanting to be arrested or even in the area when the raid goes down.
7:00 PM
The raid that Police had been preparing for all day was now ready, things started out business as usual, a group of 7 officers began to silently approach the gates of the park preparing to take down any guards that the protesters may have set up. They quickly took down the first three guards and had them detained at the fence. They were preparing to peacefully remove them from the park when a college student ran up to the cops with what looked to them like a butterfly knife (it was just a pen shaped like one). The officers would act far too quickly however and would end up tackling and beating the 19 year old with riot control batons. Seeing this about 20 crowd members would become enraged and rush towards the officers starting off a massive riot.
9:00
In just two hours, what could have been a mostly peaceful removal of the disruptive crowd has now turned into a full blown riot. Police have now begun throwing tear gas and shooting off rubber bullets and pressurized water from their armored trucks. Meanwhile the protesters now turned rioters have begun throwing flaming bottles of vodka and other makeshift projectiles. Worse yet, since this was all on live television, there are some who not only agree with the rioters, but have now joined them. This coupled with the opportunists who have taken this new riot as an excuse to burn and loot have brought the estimated number of rioters to nearly 8000, outnumbering the entire Warsaw Police force nearly 3 to 1.
10:00
Riots in Warsaw have now become a national story for nearly every broadcaster in Poland/Ukraine. Warsaw requests aid from any nearby cities or for Ukraine to send National Guard reserves to help quell the riots. Recordings of several Poles beating a Russian man within an inch of his life outside of a grocery store and Warsaw Police forcing several rioters to open mace (pepper spray) in their open mouths and shooting captured rioters with entire magazines of rubber bullets have surfaced on the internet. It seems that years of bitter hatred between Poles and Ukrainians ever since the days of Old Lunoria are being released all at once and the violence does not appear to have an end in sight.
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