were rioting
riot
That man told him that people were rioting outside and that people were in danger of being hurt. | Ese hombre le dijo que la gente estaba alborotando fuera y que podían resultar heridos. |
A bleeding man came stumbling into our office shouting that the police were rioting in the Castro. | De pronto, en nuestra oficina entró un hombre trastabillando, sangrando y gritando que la policía estaba cometiendo desmanes en el Castro. |
This, however, did not prevent thirteen of them from spending the greater part of the next night in calabooses, to which they had been taken by the police, from houses of ill-fame, where they were rioting and fighting. | Esto no evitó, sin embargo, que trece de ellos pasaran la próxima noche en la cárcel donde fueron llevados por la policía habiéndolos sacado de las casas de mala fama donde estuvieron alborotándose y peleándose. |
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