| Faced with escalating riots, the Italian police unleashed water cannon, plastic bullets and 12-inch truncheons. |
|
| I was walking in a duffel coat and a meat wagon started driving slowly next to me with all the intimidating truncheons and so on. |
|
| Outside the wall, commandos beat truncheons against their shields and police dogs barked. |
|
| The images of violence did not depict skinhead thugs battling with the police and their truncheons. |
|
| Mobile police units used water cannon and truncheons to counter the right-wing rioters, who threw stones and bottles. |
|
| Too many of them jumped me, pinning me with claws and weight so they could use their saps and truncheons until I was in no condition to struggle. |
|
| Thousands of protestors attempted to march on the US embassy in Beirut, but were beaten back by police using tear gas and truncheons. |
|
| Police used truncheons to beat them back, but no major injuries were reported. |
|
| Police in riot gear and carrying truncheons pushed them back, and several were arrested. |
|
| According to the organisers of the meeting, police employed truncheons and pepper spray in the course of their intervention. |
|
| The deal was signed while hundreds of police armed with truncheons and riot equipment remained on standby outside the hotel. |
|
| He was taken to a police station where he was beaten with truncheons, punched and kicked. |
|
| Ten policemen, waving truncheons a little too enthusiastically, have closed the road so that the dialogue can be recorded. |
|
| The demonstrators were attacked by the police, who employed tear gas and truncheons and beat and arrested a number of the protesters. |
|
| The truncheons behind the shield bearing the duke's Arms refer to his office as Earl Marshal. |
|
| Fear, however, is an entirely normal reaction, especially when smoke is thick, truncheons are swinging and the air unbreathable. |
|
| Special units of the police attacked pickets and demonstrators with water cannon and truncheons. |
|
| Over 80 police and soldiers used truncheons, tear gas and a water cannon on protestors, including women and children. |
|
| The women described being beaten, hit with rifle butts, rubber truncheons and belts as well as being held face down and stamped on. |
|
| They were supported by mounted police also wielding truncheons, and by police with dogs. |
|
|
|
| In Algiers, the capital, only a few hundred protesters braved rain and police truncheons to shout anti-Bouteflika slogans. |
|
| It is, though, an unfortunate fact that the slogans and truncheons conceal the real alternatives. |
|
| He was as a result beaten very badly by police using truncheons, arrested and brought to the nearest police station. |
|
| In 2005, the National Commissioner of Police received 336 reports on the use of truncheons. |
|
| The police used truncheons and tear gas, while paramilitary groups of religious fanatics attacked the protesters, including women, with metal chains. |
|
| In France in May 1968, the gendarmerie and the police used water cannon, tear gas and truncheons to put down three-week-long Sorbonne riots, injuring nearly 400 persons. |
|
| Armed with truncheons and tear gas, police repeatedly attacked the 200,000 demonstrators who had come from all over the world to protest the summit proceedings. |
|
| Armed with truncheons, soldiers force rioters to step back and they bring several captives back behind their lines. |
|
| The police reportedly used truncheons, water cannons and tear gas, causing dozens of injuries. |
|
| If they carry arms such as truncheons, it should not be done in an ostentatious or provocative manner. |
|
| Police continue to employ narrow clubs known as truncheons, nightsticks, or billies in controlling prisoners and crowds. |
|
| Some are dressed in inconspicuous street clothes, others wear black balaclavas and are armed with truncheons, while one is wearing a uniform and a police helmet. |
|
| This ranged from slaps with the flat of the hand to punches, kicks or being struck with truncheons or heavy books during interrogations. |
|
| He was beaten with belts, truncheons and sticks, kicked in the head and stabbed in the foot with a knife. |
|
| In January 2004, at a correctional institution in Kostanai province, on the instructions of a supervisor, three prison guards beat five prisoners with rubber truncheons and with their arms and legs. |
|
| The Court found that the use of truncheons had no basis in law. |
|
| Nonlethal weapons include electronic devices, chemical agents, and a variety of different striking instruments, such as straight, side-handle, and collapsible batons and an array of saps, truncheons, and clubs. |
|
| On January 7, approximately 60 FESCI members attacked members of the General Association of Students in Cote d'Ivoire, a rival student union, with truncheons, iron bars, and stones. |
|
| Hundreds of police carrying short and long riot shields, organised in snatch-squad units, targeted unarmed miners with truncheons, and inflicted serious injuries, particularly to the head. |
|
| But late in the evening a police charge with truncheons, accompanied by barrages of tear-gas, volleys of birdshot, plastic bullets and percussion rounds, cleared the square. |
|
|
|
| Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons. |
|
| The rare truncheons and their even rarer predecessors, the tipstaves, pictured here, would have enthralled him. |
|
| The witness confirmed that a few kicks and slaps in the faces of the Roma inhabitants had taken place but stated that he did not recall that truncheons were used on them. |
|
| This chapter furthermore includes provisions on the concrete use of specific forcible means such as firearms, truncheons and gas, and the use of police dogs. |
|
| The officers, who carried shields and truncheons but not firearms, used martial arts such as ju-jitsu and capoeira to immobilise demonstrators spoiling for a fight. |
|
| The riot was finally put down by troops and police acting with truncheons. |
|
