Police fired tear gas and beat back crowds with batons.
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Police officers used batons and pepper spray to disperse protesters.
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Where are the women who defied convention and police batons?
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Palestinian police dispersed the crowd with electric shockers and batons.
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Spanish police wielded batons at crowds attempting to vote. Oct.
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One man sustained deep cuts on the head from batons.
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The police retaliated by using their batons and pepper spray.
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Police fired tear gas and hit some protesters with batons.
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Security forces also hit some protesters with batons, Reuters reported.
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Footage shared online showed officers with batons clashing with crowds.
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Police with riot gear and batons begin forming containment lines.
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Police sprayed students with mace and beat them with batons.
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Many orchestras pass their batons from one conductor to another.
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What is needed is empathy, not restrictions, tasers, and batons.
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The police assaulted worshippers with batons, according to Ramees, the cleric.
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Officers pulled people to the ground and struck them with batons.
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Police have wielded tear gas, rubber bullets, and batons against participants.
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Fuck, it's those vanity batons with their dumbells again, you think.
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Using their batons, they smashed out one of the car's windows.
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Riot police struck protesters with batons as they fled the area.
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Why is it that batons were so popular in the 90s?
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Bands performed period-appropriate music inside as cheerleaders twirled their batons.
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He was allegedly punched, hung upside down, and beaten with batons.
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I saw so many police just charging at people with batons.
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Correction officers already carry batons and chemical agents like pepper spray.
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Police officers tackled him, tasered him and hit him with batons.
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Seven, actually ... plus a bunch of pepper spray and some batons.
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They beat people with batons, fired rubber bullets and wounded pensioners.
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The protester, Kayvan Sabeghi, said the police beat him with batons.
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Try it after the fried panisse: falafel batons of ineffable daintiness.
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Riot police in helmets and carrying batons earlier fired pepper spray.
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Hundreds were injured when police used batons and rubber bullets on voters.
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The company specializes in high-voltage stun batons and various bludgeons. Cool!
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Police used pepper spray, tear gas and batons to force crowds back.
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Police armed with pepper spray and batons moved in to disperse them.
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All wear thick arm-length gloves and carry batons and plastic shields.
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Several demonstrators were beaten by police with batons, a Reuters witness said.
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Brazilian peacekeepers jumped out of their vehicles with batons and riot shields.
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Police used tear gas and water cannon as well as their batons.
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Put the Robocop outfits, guns and batons down, this is not helping.
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Then officers in body armor, carrying shields and batons, arrived to help.
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Police broke the demonstrations up using water canon, batons and tear gas.
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His wife pointed to her back to show where the batons fell.
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At 10pm they cleared the station with a liberal use of batons.
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Police officers braced for the impact, swatting the air with wooden batons.
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I twirled batons, I was in the dance classes, I studied dance.
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At least four officers begin to attack her with batons and shields.
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A circus performer wandered around on the red carpet, juggling glowing batons.
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Police responded with pepper spray and batons, claiming the demonstrators were rioting.
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Security guards patrolled the narrow aisles unobtrusively but carried batons and handcuffs.
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The tarot deck is emblazoned with Italian suits: cups, swords, batons and coins.
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Several of the men who have been shot have slingshots and wooden batons.
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They have batons and shields and helmets all the way around the building.
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"We were preparing for them to use pepper spray and batons," she said.
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Police told Reuters they had to use teargas and batons in extreme cases.
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"Batons and hand-to-hand fighting always results in serious injury," he said.
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Police used pepper spray and batons on the protesters, arresting 40 of them.
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They were hit on the back and buttocks with batons and gun barrels.
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French cops typically respond with tear gas or by thwacking troublemakers with batons.
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Police advanced toward the protesters, holding up handguns and batons as a warning.
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Police used pepper spray, tear gas and batons to force the crowds back.
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Some cops advanced on the crowd with batons in hand, yelling homophobic insults.
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The police dispersed the crowds from the streets using pepper spray and batons.
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One man was arrested for selling 20 extendible batons and 10 stun guns.
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During the street clashes, riot police used batons to force back the crowd.
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It came with overcooked woody batons called 'fries'— how can someone mess up fries?
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He raises his arms and they raise their batons, beating him from all sides.
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Officers can be seen using their batons to push in and contain the crowd.
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Some protesters said they were hit by rubber bullets and others beaten with batons.
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We have spoken to activists who went up against batons, tear gas, and bullets.
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Finally, the NYPD came in with batons and started beating kids, so we split.
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It came with overcooked woody batons called "fries"—how can someone mess up fries?
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Security officials — wielding assault rifles, batons and shields — have held drills across the country.
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Officers used batons to push back the separatists and to keep the groups apart.
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MET ORCHESTRA, MAY 31 Sometimes conductors drop their batons — or, more likely, throw them.
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On Thursday, Sudanese security forces used teargas and batons to disperse thousands of protesters.
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They saw helmeted Chinese troops undergoing exercises, some armed with rifles, shields and batons.
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Riot police used tear gas canisters, water cannons and batons to disperse the intruders.
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Their cries were met with batons, lashes, acid thrown in their faces and imprisonment.
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Those practices included beating devotees with batons after asking them to remove their clothes.
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Some were punched or hit with batons or had their faces held to the ground.
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Reinforcements came in hard, firing tear gas and pepper spray before charging protesters with batons.
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Scores of police officers, clad in riot gear and clutching batons, separated the two groups.
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Minor scuffles broke out as some protesters hurled bottles at police, some armed with batons.
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Scores of protesters were arrested, sometimes after being beaten with batons and bloodied by police.
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From 2008 to 2015, dog bites and use of batons and pepper spray remained steady.
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So when makeup artist Troy Surratt showed me his Smoky Eye Batons, I was skeptical.
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There, the protesters engaged in several skirmishes with riot officers, who hit them with batons.
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She projects a macho persona, speaking in a booming voice and wielding batons or whips.
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Salim Alaradi was repeatedly punched, hung upside down, and beaten with batons, his lawyer said.
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Demonstrator Spiwe Moyo, 47, told CNN police used batons to beat her at the square.
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Demonstrators regularly face tear gas, batons and water cannons at the hands of the police.
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Details: Per Reuters, police used tear gas and batons on activists to disperse them Sunday.
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For days, rioters burned cars and buildings; some came armed with spears, batons and axes.
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For days, rioters burned cars and buildings; some came armed with spears, batons and axes.
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Police, who have beaten protesters on the ground with batons, say they have shown restraint.
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Inside might be rajas, batons of chile with stray seeds still clinging like unfinished thoughts.
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They then pulled some protesters onto the ground, beating them with batons and making arrests.
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At one point, a video showed, officers ran through the crowd, swinging batons and making arrests.
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A crowd of protesters waving Turkish flags was dispersed with police dogs, batons and water cannons.
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The real history goes back 30,703 years to these phallic batons from the Upper Paleolithic period.
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Seconds later, the police begin pummelling the protesters with batons, randomly dragging activists from the crowd.
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Still, scores of protesters were arrested, sometimes after being beaten with batons and bloodied by police.
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Protesters threw umbrellas and hardhats at police, who retaliated by swinging batons and firing pepper spray.
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Dozens of protesters hurled bricks and bottles at police who responded with pepper spray and batons.
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Police in riot gear wielded batons to clear the street minutes later and free trapped officers.
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The cells held men and women, who screamed as they were beaten with fists and batons.
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"There were about four policemen on either boy, each beating them up with batons," she said.
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Police officers responded with batons and pepper spray, and three officers and one journalist were injured.
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A majority of the deaths involved other types of force such as batons or pepper spray.
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They were stopped by officers who struck them with batons and doused them with pepper spray.
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The Greek authorities used tear gas, batons, stun grenades and rubber bullets to repel the migrants.
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A dance troupe stormed in, banging drums, chanting and waving flaming batons and giant red hearts.
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Policemen wielding batons had to escort the referee out of the stadium amid fans shouting threats.
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Puerto Rican police officers were also filmed beating nonviolent protesters with extendable batons on multiple occasions.
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But if they drew batons and charged those in the camp, I didn't see it. Confrontational?
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A recording of the beating showed King being struck by police batons more than 50 times.
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They rapped on the seats using batons or flashlights, causing the riders to stir from sleep.
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Other videos showed riot police breaking windows of closed shops, and striking parked motorcycles with batons.
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The clip, taken by a reporter from The Oregonian, shows officers standing shoulder-to-shoulder, holding batons.
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Police used pepper spray, tear gas and batons to force crowds back, while some individuals were chased.
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Going back to these "phallic batons," have the staples of sex toys stayed pretty much the same?
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He said troops could help protect the border agents with shields and batons, but would be unarmed.
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Far-right group C14 said police had surrounded its protesters, attacking them with batons and tear gas.
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One video sees a circle of smiley-face emoji cops beating a cell phone with their batons.
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Scuffles also broke out later in the day with police using their batons to contain the fighting.
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Osmond has since returned with two large batons—one of dried mugwort and one of dried wormwood.
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Police fired tear gas canisters and used batons to beat protesters who hurled rocks back at them.
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Following the march, a group of assailants were videotaped attacking subway passengers with batons and other weapons.
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She said female Houthi supporters "attacked us with electric shock batons and clubs, supported by armed men".
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Armed with riot gear and batons, authorities were met with resistance and used force to arrest protesters.
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Footage taken by local reporters show police rushing civilians with batons and shoving journalists covering the demonstrations.
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Some ransacked a Doctors of the World medical clinic, taking knives and dismantling beds to fashion batons.
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The cops reportedly used stun guns and batons to disperse the protesters, who threw rocks in retaliation.
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The police hit unarmed protesters with batons and fired rubber bullets at individuals or crowds without warning.
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It said the police used batons and tear gas to foil them, arresting at least 40 people.
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Police on bikes and motorcycles had to break up the crowd; There was pepper spray and batons.
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Recently, Mr. Mnangagwa's forces used tear gas, batons and whips to crush protests over deteriorating economic conditions.
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Then, a group of men dressed in black rushed in, tackling people and beating them with batons.
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Police, some wearing riot gear and carrying batons, quickly surrounded them and ordered them to come out.
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The gathering was quickly broken up by riot police, who used water cannons, batons and tear gas.
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In went a potato, out came a dozen or so perfectly thick batons with sharp, square edges.
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As the security forces confronted other protesters with batons, some retaliated by throwing rocks and glass bottles.
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CCTV footage shows police in riot gear striking Ramees and another cleric, M.S.M Nizam, four times with batons.
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Videos from Wednesday's protest showed police spraying tear gas directly into protesters' faces and beating them with batons.
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They hit her with batons and sticks as they attempted to take her camera, which captured the incident.
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Videos from Wednesday's protest showed police spraying tear gas directly into protester's faces and beating them with batons.
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Hong Kong police used tear gas, pepper spray and batons to disperse the crowds, riling the protesters further.
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More officers arrived, and Phounsy was hit with batons, hogtied and put into an ambulance, the family says.
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In Dhaka, the capital, police used tear gas, batons and water cannons to disperse students and frustrated jobseekers.
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They started coming out with batons and riot gear, kicking people off the strip and pushing people around.
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Recent months have seen riot police use tear gas, water cannon and batons to break up street demonstrations.
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Things grew tense, with some protesters throwing bottles and rocks at officers as police fought back with batons.
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Peel the sweet potatoes, if desired, and cut them lengthwise into 83/4-inch-thick batons (fry shapes).
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Defense Technology, which operates under Safariland, offers pepper spray, impact munitions, chemical agent devices, launchers, batons, and others.
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During protests earlier today, police responded with pepper spray and, in some cases, by beating protesters with batons.
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Hundreds of riot police officers used batons and pepper spray to beat back demonstrators who had gathered nearby.
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A group of at least eight police officers pepper sprays him, punches him and beats him with batons.
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This is why it tried to stop the referendum through the indiscriminate use of batons, threats and coercion.
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"We were made to strip of all clothing and shoved up against each other, with batons," he said.
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Videos surfaced on the internet of Iranian authorities beating protesters with electric batons, according to the wire service.
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They showed undercover officers hitting protesters with batons and pinning them to the ground, leaving some bleeding profusely.
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The perimeter is adorned with unicycles, bins crammed with juggling equipment, and a spectrum of hoops and batons.
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The first two hit Mears with pepper spray and batons because, the autopsy report said, he appeared combative.
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It was brutally broken up by police before reaching its destination, with riot squads charging people with batons.
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The same sweet potato batons are tossed in cornstarch and baking soda, and then frozen till rock hard.
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"Batons came into style when I was a child, but of course I could never have one," she sighs.
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And in Wuhan thousands showed they would rather defy police batons and potential imprisonment than choke on bad air.
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Villagers threw bricks at police as they advanced with shields, batons and helmets, firing rubber bullets and using teargas.
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The protests were not taken lightly by the French authorities, who responded in force with tear gas and batons.
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He allegedly resisted arrest, fighting with officers who had to use batons and Tasers to subdue him, Holcombe says.
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Some protesters threw bottles and stones and several demonstrators were beaten by police with batons, a Reuters witness said.
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Riot police, batons at the ready, looked on, nonplussed as hundreds of supporters danced, sang and prayed in defiance.
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It works wonders as a shield against police batons, and I can sit on it to rest, if necessary.
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On one side, there were riot police and their batons; on the other, people throwing rotten eggs at them.
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Other police officers, who had batons but not firearms, happened to be near the scene when the attack began.
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On Saturday, protesters who had surrounded a police station soon vanished when riot officers advanced with shields and batons.
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Tasers are used in situations when subjects would otherwise be wrestled to the ground, hit with batons or shot.
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Settlers and their supporters hurled cinder blocks at the officers, who charged on horseback and beat protesters with batons.
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It did find bias against blacks in every other type of force, like the use of hands or batons.
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Violent clashes erupted that night, with police storming a subway car and hitting passengers with batons and pepper spray.
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It ended with a confrontation between attendees and counter-protesters and law enforcement armed with batons and pepper spray.
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I watched as police sucker punched gangly adolescents and hit them with batons before tossing them into paddy wagons.
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Riot police with batons, shields and masks confronted the migrants through the wire, yelling at them to stay back.
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There, she saw men come in with bruises from being beaten and scars she thought were from electric batons.
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Then, riot police charge into a car and hit four people with batons before dousing them in pepper spray.
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The police, who have used batons, rubber bullets and tear gas against protesters, have faced allegations of excessive force.
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Risking their future, our fellow citizens have braved batons, tear gas, rubber bullets and even slashing by triad members.
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Police were filmed firing tear gas and striking protesters with batons in chaotic scenes in malls across the city.
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Other uniformed and plainclothes officers rush to join the fight, kicking and striking Mr. Grissom with fists and batons.
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Members of Hanoi's mobile police force, in all black uniforms, white gloves, and carrying police batons, guarded the entrances.
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But there was widespread shock when police used batons and rubber bullets on protesters on the day of the vote.
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A group of men wielding broken bottles, pepper spray, batons, and knives attacked several art openings on a Tuesday night.
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Some officers fired tear gas while other flailed their batons at protestors who appeared to be trying to get away.
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Plainclothes officers, in jeans and sneakers and carrying batons and shields, were also deployed, with other reinforcements gathering behind barricades.
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Lustily, though not always in time, they sing "Strike Up the Band" and wave batons with pompoms on the ends.
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Spanish police used batons and rubber bullets to stop people voting in Sunday's referendum, which Madrid had banned as unconstitutional.
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Squad cars trailed the crowd, and officers in riot gear formed a tight line, holding batons and blocking protesters' way.
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Here, the riot police are the ones stopping the protests by locking people up and using water cannons and batons.
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"They were struck with batons mostly in the upper arms and shoulders and lower legs, mostly ankles," said Abdel Rahman.
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About five masked Hamas officers tried to confiscate her phone and beat her with batons, breaking her arm, she said.
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Some opposition supporters still turned up in Harare and were dispersed by police using batons, tear gas and water cannon.
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Dozens were arrested and hundreds were injured, with students telling CNN they were beaten by police with sticks and batons.
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While the elderly implore police officers to put down their pistols and batons, professionals are making donations to the movement.
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The notice suggested the school was spending money on security items like 100 police batons and 30 tear gas launchers.
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Rallies deteriorated into running clashes with police firing tear gas and charging with batons to disperse protesters across the city.
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"They beat me every time I failed to do so using something like sharpened batons," Cheng said in the statement.
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Graphic video footage showed police swinging batons in the station, landing some blows on individuals already lying on the ground.
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Reuters television images showed riot police charging at protesters with batons in central Paris, firing stun grenades and tear gas.
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The notice suggested the school was spending money on security items like 100 police batons and 30 tear gas launchers.
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Officials are investigating what took place after video surfaced showing police officers pummeling two men with batons, fists and feet.
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The officers, who were caught on video pummeling the men with their batons, are being investigated for using excessive force.
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I'd be in my cell, hear batons tap on the floor—clack clack clack—and then two bells like fire alarms.
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"Tasers are not risk free but they are proven safer than batons, fists, take downs, tackles, and impact munitions," said Tuttle.
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The protest was mostly peaceful during the day, but it turned violent overnight, with police trying to clear protesters with batons.
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Law enforcement officers on horseback, armed with tear gas and batons, brutally attacked the demonstrators to drive them back to Selma.
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Several physical altercations, including shoving, could be seen between protesters and police officers, who were using batons to push them back.
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Reporters were pushed toward the exit by officers who beat their shields with their batons in an attempt to intimidate them.
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Riot police in helmets and carrying batons fired pepper spray as the standoff continued into the sweltering heat of the evening.
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Hundreds of people returned to a subway station, where police had hit activists with batons, to protest against heavy-handed tactics.
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Chaos briefly reigned inside the station when riot police charged up the stairs with batons, hitting protesters and using pepper spray.
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At the gate of Zubair field, police beat protesters on their backs and legs with batons and rubber hoses, witnesses said.
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An open umbrella also helps to keep the protester out of reach of police batons on the frontlines of violent clashes.
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Images in the media often show officers clad in black body armor, helmets with face shields, and batons at the ready.
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Surrounded by Stormtroopers wielding stun batons, I single out the group's leader and use the Force to bring him to me.
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Police said two warning shots were fired into the air, with pepper spray and batons also used to disperse the crowd.
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Last week, police deployed tear gas, rubber bullets, and even beat protesters with batons in efforts to forcefully clear the streets.
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For defense against a murderous attack, batons and chairs are better than nothing, but not nearly as effective as a firearm.
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Instead of bluefin tuna, you eat skate, cooked gingerly to keep the appealing gelatinous softness, under celery and batons of apple.
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On one side protesters were yelling and holding signs, and on the other side, the police had shields, helmets and batons.
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This he fails signally to do, and riot police end up stomping into the library, shields and batons at the ready.
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Until Wednesday's army takeover, even minor anti-government protests in Zimbabwe had been met with tear gas, rubber bullets and batons.
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" For example, the report said, when the police "use batons, 0003 percent of the time it is either unnecessary or excessive.
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A Chicago Sun-Times reporter wrote on Twitter that a scuffle broke out, with officers using batons and residents throwing punches.
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After Catalonia's own police force failed to do so, the national forces moved in with batons and rubber bullets, wounding hundreds.
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The police pushed back, hitting the protesters with batons, rubber bullets, pepper spray and more than 150 canisters of tear gas.
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The city would send riot police with shields and batons, as a bloody reminder that the fight would always be unbalanced.
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The pair were forced into the street, beaten with batons and punched by dozens of security officers, according to their organization.
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The carillon can be considered a percussion instrument, given that the batons and pedals respond to how much pressure is applied.
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The audience members were led to their seats not by ushers but by guards with wooden batons hanging from their belts.
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Hundreds of people were injured in the protests, with students telling CNN they were beaten by police with sticks and batons.
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Similar clashes erupted at Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh state, where police used tear gas and charged protesters with batons.
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In clashes with protesters in the last week, officers charged at demonstrators with batons, and fired tear gas to disperse crowds.
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Fans wearing french flags over their faces threw bottles at police officers wielding batons, as trash fires billowed smoke around them.
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Leonardo found that this image was most often reproduced in a cropped version, showing two officers with batons hovering over King.
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Livestream footage showed these supposed protesters assisting the police in arresting other protesters, holding batons and leaving together in a private van.
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Riot police in helmets and carrying batons earlier fired pepper spray as the standoff continued into the sweltering heat of the evening.
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In the day's most violent clashes, police in Burri fired rubber bullets and tear gas and chased demonstrators with batons, witnesses said.
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Witnesses have described police viciously kicking and punching Abdi, and hitting him with batons, with some saying he was also pepper-sprayed.
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Some of the injured had fractured bones after being hit with security forces' batons while and others had been shot, he said.
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A week earlier, officers had fought running battles in the street with protesters, beating some of them with batons and kicking them.
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There was shock at home and abroad when police used batons and rubber bullets on protesters on the day of the vote.
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Officers complain about worn tires, dodgy brakes, and holes in the seats where guns and batons have rubbed impressions into the fabric.
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Batons of steamed carrot, sweet potato or broccoli (they can hold the stem) are great as are avocado, mango and papaya wedges.
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Thick smoke and tear gas could be seen from afar as protesters and police officers clashed, each side using stones and batons.
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A report by the Manchester Evening News suggests the police were striking people "indiscriminately" with batons on their way into the Bernabeu.
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Officers from the Protestant-dominated police force — the Royal Ulster Constabulary — surrounded the demonstrators with batons drawn, cutting off lines of retreat.
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In response to the violence, police donned riot gear and wielded batons before resorting to tear gas to break up the crowd.
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Video footage from Prince Edward subway station in Kowloon showed officers chasing and hitting individuals with batons as they made the arrests.
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Once there, he would execute feverish four-limbed virtuosity with fists over the knoblike keys, called batons, and feet on the pedals.
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Hong Kong: The police went undercover as protesters in August, causing mayhem on the streets, beating demonstrators with batons and arresting them.
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Hong Kong: The police went undercover as protesters in August, causing mayhem on the streets, beating demonstrators with batons and arresting them.
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Police have responded with tear gas, batons, rubber bullets, water cannons, and bean bag rounds, arresting more than 1,300 demonstrators so far.
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Police fired tear gas, water cannons and used batons against protesters who pelted stones, vandalized and set fire to buildings and buses.
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A few minutes after Chamisa entered the party building, police charged the crowd with batons and fired tear gas, causing a stampede.
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Protesting students from the university told CNN they were beaten with batons and sticks, leaving 200 injured according to the university administration.
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The devices became a popular tool for police officers in the 2000s as a less-lethal weapon, like pepper spray or batons.
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Outside the central government offices, riot police beat flag-waving protesters back with batons, leaving several with blood streaming down their foreheads.
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Spain made a conciliatory gesture in apologizing for Sunday's referendum violence, where Spanish police used batons and rubber bullets to stop people voting.
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These include pepper spray, batons, brass knuckles and lipstick stun guns ranging in price from about 200 rupees ($3) to almost 7,000 rupees.
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After issuing orders to the crowd of roughly 1,000 to disperse, police began forcefully and aggressively pushing protesters, checking them with their batons.
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But some opposition supporters still turned up for the protest and were subsequently dispersed by police who used batons, teargas and water cannon.
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Graphic video footage from that incident showed police swinging batons in the station, landing some blows on individuals already lying on the ground.
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Police dispersed protesters peacefully during early demonstrations, but the crackdown escalated on Monday, with police firing tear gas and beating protesters with batons.
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Footage posted on the singer's Twitter account showed dozens of police officers wearing helmets and carrying shields and batons surrounding the singer's car.
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One fellow inmate reported that he heard cries of "no mas!" and others recalled the sickening sound of batons repeatedly striking his body.
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The Chicago protests over Augustus's death turned violent on Saturday as police officers hit protestors with batons and shoved journalists covering the outcry.
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Saw cops hit multiple people hit and knock them down inc my friends, & the state arms them w/ guns & tasers and batons & worse.
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Madrid had banned the vote and sought to thwart it by sending in riot police who use batons and rubber bullets on voters.
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Activists threw bricks, while police used batons, pepper spray, and fired shots in the air as hygiene inspectors tried to remove street vendors.
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The officers were surrounded and drew their batons; they formed a protective circle and retreated back inside as demonstrators shouted expletives at them.
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But the demonstration still went ahead on July 22013, where Russian police arrested nearly 1,300 people and reportedly beat back protesters with batons.
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The batons and pedals tug on wires and levers that control the clappers and merge the notes of the 74 bells into harmony.
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The initial rush devolved into several smaller skirmishes as uniformed police officers, some in helmets and swinging collapsible batons, struggled to restore order.
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And it wasn't uncommon for white military police to take their batons to African-American G.I.s if they refused to leave an establishment.
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Mr. Basquiat's piece shows two red-faced police in blue uniform, one baring pointy teeth, with batons raised over an all-black silhouette.
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It was noticeable, too, that the choir managed fairly well even if the conductors were just waving their batons in an indeterminate fashion.
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Supporters of Khomeini, who had said women should wear the hijab in governmental offices, attacked women who were uncovered with sticks and batons.
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In the early hours, riot police wielding batons and shields chased dozens of protesters as they broke up a siege of police headquarters.
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The cops stood in a row with their feet firmly apart, arms by their sides, batons ready to be brandished at any minute.
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At one point, Reuters reporters, said a car approached the police line, was hit by police batons and in speeding away, hit a woman.
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The government drafted riot police to deal with the illegal protest, with multiple reports of them wielding batons while rounding up hundreds of protesters.
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WWF has provided paramilitary forces with salaries, training, and supplies — including knives, night vision binoculars, riot gear, and batons — and funded raids on villages.
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Two days later, seven journalists were "lathi-charged," or beaten by police batons while covering a student demonstration, in the northeastern state of Assam.
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They have also ordered extra equipment, including 2,500 steel barriers, 16 police motorcycles and 2,000 sets of riot gear with body armor and batons.
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Demonstrators scuffled with riot police, threw stones and eggs at government buildings and set off flares before police used batons to disperse the crowd.
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Activists shared videos on social media showing riot police with batons chasing protesters and throwing stones back at them in Boukidaren, near Al-Hoceima.
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Riot police in helmets and carrying batons fired pepper spray in response in a standoff that lasted into the sweltering heat of the evening.
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WHEN a democracy sends riot police to beat old ladies over the head with batons and stop them voting, something has gone badly wrong.
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What they found instead were Greek riot police wearing helmets and armed with batons and shields formed a human barrier in the small passageway.
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The government deployed Zimbabwe's military, and witnesses said they saw soldiers beating protesters with makeshift batons, while the demonstrators fought back by throwing stones.
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The prisoner said the attackers, armed with batons and three AK-47 rifles, easily overpowered the guards who he said had been drinking heavily.
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Surveillance camera and cellphone recordings of the encounter showing officers kicking Reed and striking him with batons were widely shared online following the incident.
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While he was on the ground, officers kicked and punched him in the face, head and body and beat him with their wooden batons.
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Prisoners were forced to strip naked and run through a gantlet of 30 to 40 corrections officers who took turns beating them with batons.
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Police officers arrived at the area, chased Abdi, and according to witnesses, then pepper-sprayed him and hit him with batons, punches, and kicks.
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Half a dozen police vans with flashing red lights parked near the protesters and riot police officers with helmets, batons and shields stood nearby.
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Three hundred people who were either hit by bullets, beaten with batons, or whipped with long wooden sticks, were in dire need of treatment.
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As soon as he said Imran — an identifiably Muslim name — more than a dozen men began pummelling him with iron rods, hammers, and batons.
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He grabbed my hair and dragged me into the Jeep, his fellow officers began hitting me across the thighs and legs with their batons.
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Opposition supporters, who gathered outside the headquarters of an opposition party in the city center, were met by police carrying riot shields and batons.
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They swung their batons, bashing one "protester" in the head until it oozed fake blood, and then zip-tied the protesters and the journalists.
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Our video team documented how the police there have gone undercover as protesters, hitting demonstrators in the face with batons and arresting them. 8.
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Before the students stood a metal gate, on the other side of which there was the teacher, flanked by two guards with electric batons.
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The women then put themselves in front of the police batons to shield their friend from the blows, shouting at the officers to leave.
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Armed with batons and helmets, police officers formed protective rings around them as they climbed a steep, three-mile trail leading to the temple.
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Over here, we were intellectuals, romantics—we pushed and shoved a little, we imprisoned some, and in extreme cases, we drew out our batons.
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You are reminded of how the batons are often swung with two hands; the arms rise and fall and rise again, with obscene frequency.
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"Officers clad in riot gear used batons against demonstrators," some of whom had been chanting slogans such as "Russia without Putin," Radio Free Europe reports.
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In February, the city announced that it would implement extra firearms training that emphasizes the use of other protective devices, including stun guns and batons.
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Residents angry about the shooting clashed with police, and some in the crowd threw rocks and bottles at officers, who struck protesters with their batons.
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ERC lawmaker Gabriel Rufian called on Monday for the Socialists to "bring politics back to this political conflict and remove judicial robes and police batons".
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The case involved 200 women prisoners, rounded up by Illinois female prison staff who wore helmets and vests, banged batons on cells and yelled obscenities.
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Riot police in helmets and carrying batons fired pepper spray in response in a standoff that was lasting into the sweltering heat of the evening.
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Dastis has defended the actions of Spanish police who used batons and rubber bullets to disperse non-violent protesters at polling stations on Oct. 1.
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There was no immediate report of injuries but TV stations carried footage of police firing tear gas and charging with batons at rock-hurling protesters.
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In rare cases it could be fatal, but the same could be said for Tasers, batons, or as Eric Garner's family can attest, bare hands.
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Scores of riot police tried to disperse the crowds, grappling some people to the ground and beating others with batons near the city's stock exchange.
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"They had thick wooden and rubber batons, whips made from twisted wire, needles to pierce the skin, pliers for pulling out your nails," he said.
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They strapped him to a contraption called a "tiger chair," shocked him with electric batons, beat him with pipes and whipped him with computer cords.
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In 1968 callers recounted how police officers swung batons at participants in a springtime celebration organized by the Youth International Party inside Grand Central Terminal.
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Video footage from Prince Edward subway station in Kowloon showed officers charging into a train and hitting individuals with batons as they made the arrests.
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Famous for his tantrums in rehearsal (breaking and flinging batons, shouting imprecations at musicians he found lazy or unprepared), he was unfailingly kind in person.
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Since January, Mr. Mnangagwa's forces have used tear gas, batons, whips and bullets to crush protests over deteriorating economic conditions, killing at least 17 people.
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Sahiba Mazid, who spoke by telephone from inside one of the university hostels, said many men wearing masks and carrying batons had entered the hostel.
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The women tell the police to leave before the officers grab their friend and drag him onto the sidewalk, where they beat him with batons.
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Prosecutors said Santiago, Morris, Cosman and Lowery beat Moore with fists, boots and batons, while Scott, a sergeant, watched without doing anything to stop them.
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These actions include officer presence, verbal warnings (yelling "stop"), unarmed control (grabs and holds), less lethal weapons (chemical sprays and batons) and, ultimately, lethal force.
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"When I told them there was no one in they started beating me with batons and damaged everything," Raza said, showing bruised forearms and legs.
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Waco Police said numerous weapons were found at the scene, including knives, brass knuckles, batons, tomahawks, chains with padlocks, stun guns, pepper spray and firearms.
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Nadine Bloch, an activist and artist, is running pre-inaugural training on nonviolent protest — complete with mock police officers wielding rolled up newspapers as batons.
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Inmates are made to stand on their knees, beaten with batons and deprived of sleep until they sign the confessions put in front of them.
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Spain has been jolted by the Catalan vote and the Spanish police response to it, with batons and rubber bullets used to prevent people voting.
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"Equal rights for women / Beaten up equally," the lyrics go, sung over footage of Turkish police breaking up an International Women's Day march with batons.
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Radio Television Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Free Press report that police used pepper spray and batons against protesters gathered near the legislative area.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Police beat anti-corruption protesters with batons and fired volleys of tear gas to disperse them in Kenya's capital on Thursday, Reuters witnesses said.
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Spain has been rocked by the Catalan vote and the Spanish police response to it, which saw batons and rubber bullets used to prevent people voting.
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The executive order will also make it easier for police departments to obtain heavy-hitting gear like riot helmets, batons, drones, armored vehicles, helicopters, and explosives.
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Rome police used water cannons and batons to disperse migrants camped out at a local square, injuring at least 13 people, Doctors Without Borders reported Thursday.
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Financial documents show that, over the years, WWF has supplied Indian rangers with hundreds of batons and anti-riot helmets, and night vision binoculars for patrols.
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Hip-hop is an anachronistic but necessary distinction meant to distinguish this auxiliary group from more customary majorettes, women who march before traditional bands twirling batons.
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In a video captured at the scene, Chicago police could be seen swinging their batons at individuals after the crowd shouted and threw bottles at officers.
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About half of that is, according to a CNN report, believed to have gone toward, among other things, an order for 2,000 batons and protective suits.
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Troops from the National Guard fired buckshot and swung batons at students protesting in front of the Supreme Court, and several journalists had their cameras seized.
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Often they end violently, with exchanges between stone-throwing protesters who set up barricades and police forces using water cannons, tear gas, batons and rubber pellets.
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Anger with the police has run high over the force's widespread use of tear gas, pepper spray and batons on demonstrators during five months of protest.
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Protesters blocked off the road in front of the convention site in Burlingame and police used batons to prevent protesters from entering the building, CNN reports.
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The Tuesday night demonstrations involved officers armed with pepper spray and batons confronting the protesters who used luggage carts to barricade entrances to the airport terminal.
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About 900 people were injured when officers used rubber bullets and batons against voters in scenes that shocked Spain and the world, and escalated the dispute.
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Large groups of riot police officers disrupted a rally in the city's financial district around lunchtime on Wednesday, making multiple arrests and beating protesters with batons.
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Riot police officers in Barcelona shoved and struck protesters with batons to keep an angry crowd from advancing on the office of the Spanish government's representative.
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In a six-minute video taken by a passer-by and posted to Instagram, the police are seen pummeling Mr. Grissom with batons and kicking him.
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That violence continued on Sunday, when the student union returned to the streets to support the police, who used tear gas and batons to subdue protesters.
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Five males -- the youngest aged 13 -- were arrested along the protest route for possession of weapons including "extendable batons, hammers, spanners and knuckle dusters," police said.
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As the day wore on, government security forces used water cannons, rubber bullets and batons against protesters, just as they have for the last three months.
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Vibert Jeune spoke passionately as he described policing in his native Guyana, where officers carry batons, and policing in the United States, where they carry guns.
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He argued that pepper spray is a better option than other methods that have been used to control violent crowds, such as batons or tear gas.
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So far the crisis has been largely violence-free, except for the day of the referendum when national police assaulted voters with batons and rubber bullets.
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Friday's protests were patrolled by Catalonia's local police force, unlike during last year's illegal referendum when national officers' use of batons and rubber bullets caused an outcry.
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A good contrast is a 2015 video of officers in Corby, England, wresting a knife from an attacker using only pepper spray and batons at close range.
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He commands the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which dispersed the sit-in, opening fire on large crowds, breaking people's bones with batons and whipping others, witnesses said.
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Los Angeles Police Department officers pulled him from his car, tasered him, kicked him and beat him with batons, breaking his leg and bones in his skull.
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If, in his unplanned second act, Mr. Kaplan was tilting at windmills, at least he was doing so with one of Mahler's batons, which he also owned.
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Like police officers, border hunters will carry pistols with live ammunition, batons, pepper spray and handcuffs, and will also be equipped with night-vision goggles if needed.
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Clad in leather armor and feathered metal helmets, men attacked one another with wooden batons and painted shields as children and women in Roman costumes looked on.
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In a nod to the dollhouse feel, Allumette carries a box of what look like life-sized matchsticks, which look like majorette batons in her tiny hands.
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Now his days are spent trying to climb aboard trucks and trains headed across the English Channel and evading riot police armed with batons and tear gas.
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His cameraman, Arshad Hussein Shah, said he has been injured more times than he can count by security forces, often in scuffles involving batons and rifle butts.
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Protesters in Sheung Shui, not far from the Chinese city of Shenzhen, threw umbrellas and hardhats at police, who retaliated by swinging batons and firing pepper spray.
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Chants of "Russia without Putin" and "Putin resign" echoed through central Moscow as guardsmen clad in riot gear beat back protesters with batons and roughly detained people.
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Street protests and unrest intensified during and after the election, with government forces using rubber bullets, tear gas and batons against opposition protesters, according to several reports.
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According to prosecutors, Santiago, Morris, Cosman and Lowery all beat Moore with fists, boots and batons, while Scott, a sergeant, observed but did nothing to stop them.
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Spanish police launched a violent crackdown in an effort to thwart the referendum, using rubber bullets and batons on voters in scenes that shocked Spain's European neighbors.
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Police said the items found also included batons, bottles and cans presumed to be filled with flammable liquid, containers with unknown powder or chemicals, and gas masks.
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"Juvenile Jazz Bands" (1979) documented the ragtag bunch of children rejected from other marching bands who practiced in deteriorating lots yet wielded batons like exuberant young wizards.
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That confrontation saw police wielding batons at crowds seeking to vote and prompted the then-conservative government to temporarily impose direct rule from Madrid on the region.
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The festival's house band, the Vienna Philharmonic, will give concerts under the batons of Andris Nelsons, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Riccardo Muti, Herbert Blomstedt and Mr. Welser-Möst.
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On Tuesday and Wednesday, police with batons and tear gas wounded and arrested dozens as protesters lit fires and smashed bank facades and ATMs, Reuters journalists saw.
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When security forces cracked down, Amini was there, too, beaten with batons and nursing her concussion in the first courtyard that she could find off the street.
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Revolvers have been replaced by 7013-millimeter semiautomatic pistols, wooden nightsticks have largely given way to expandable batons and uniform slacks have been replaced by cargo pants.
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One of the two carved wooden batons of "Machine Motorisée," from 1933, rotates on an irregular axis and comes a hair's breadth from bumping into another one.
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Barcelona's international airport became a focal point for demonstrators on Monday and at times, riot police charged at crowds using batons and firing foam balls, Reuters reported.
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But protesters ignored the ban and gathered anyway leading police to storm a subway car and hit protesters with batons and pepper spray, The Associated Press reported.
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Miss Missouri Simone Esters put on an incredible show with her twirling batons, but the audience could barely see it because of how poor the lighting was.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean police used teargas, water cannon and batons on Wednesday to disperse opposition youths who demonstrated in the capital against alleged brutality by security agents.
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On the other side of the barricades and beyond the flames of burning debris were lines of riot police, armed with batons, tear gas and rubber bullets.
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In an ostentatious show of force, they lined up along the street to face us, holding their shields and batons aloft so protesters could clearly see them.
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Many ended up clashing with the authorities in Greece as riot police officers with batons, shields and masks tried to block their path, sometimes firing tear gas.
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With a stainless steel case and bracelet, plus a simplified dial that ditches numerals in favor of fat luminous batons, the $19503,400 Sky-Dweller is finally a star.
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With a stainless steel case and bracelet, plus a simplified dial that ditches numerals in favor of fat luminous batons, the $14,400 Sky-Dweller is finally a star.
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And while the protesters often wielded rocks and bottles and sticks, the police forces generally answered with flashbangs, tear gas, water cannon, and batons swung wild and hard.
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There, in a room Gambians nicknamed the "Crocodile Hole", agents electrocuted his genitals, beat him with batons, suffocated him with a plastic bag and broke his right hand.
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Details: Video posted by journalists and activists on social media appeared to show riot police using batons on protesters at the rally, which was not authorized by authorities.
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Protesters threw large objects and bricks pried from the sidewalks at the police, who had initially fired warning shots and then used pepper spray and batons on protesters.
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Seeking to clear streets quicker than before, police fired tear gas and charged with batons at flashpoints from big shopping boulevards to bar-lined streets and railway stations.
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Protesters threw large objects and bricks pried from the sidewalks at the police, who had initially fired warning shots and then used pepper spray and batons on protestors.
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"I thought I was going to die," says Lewis in one unforgettable panel, in a pool of his own blood, as police officers swing their batons around him.
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Cleveland has prepared for the event by buying things like new body armor and batons for police, which it can afford thanks to a $50 million federal grant.
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When it comes to policing, we want to ensure that police officers are not abusing their uniform, badgering people with batons, firing weapons indiscriminately or harassing innocent civilians.
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Several thousand opposition supporters made for Telavi in a convoy of cars and buses, but police blocked the road, beating some activists with batons, a Reuters reporter said.
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Most of the protesters left after officers armed with pepper spray and swinging batons tried to enter the terminal, fighting with demonstrators who barricaded entrances with luggage carts.
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When Mr. Mo's wife joined thousands of other villagers in a protest last year against the plant, she was beaten by the police with electric batons, he said.
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SWEDEN Police in Stockholm wield batons to break up a violent rally by 600 members of the Nordic Resistance Movement, a neofascist group with branches across Northern Europe.
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Police on Thursday swooped on an indoor youth rally by Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party in Islamabad, beating activists with batons and detaining about 40 people.
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We'd dip flatbreads in ful medames—garlicky, lemony mashed fava beans—and dunk the long, flaky batons called jachun in skhug, a cilantro sauce blazing with fresh chiles.
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He — batons are still almost exclusively wielded by men — is a kind of medium between composers, usually from the distant past, and players who actually make the sounds.
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As a group of protesters tried to beak into the building, the police responded with batons, pepper spray and tear gas to disperse tens of thousands of people.
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Riot police with helmets, batons and shields moved in to break up the largely peaceful protest, which shut down city streets and lasted into the early morning today.
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Cops didn't just shut the after-hours party down; they lined up outside to block its exit, batons in hand, and harassed hundreds of patrons attempting to leave.
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He didn't so much walk as shuffle because of injuries to his legs that, like those elsewhere on his body, he said were inflicted by Croatian police batons.
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Police in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, fired tear gas and used batons on Saturday to disperse hundreds of student protesters angered by the traffic deaths of two fellow students.
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When she told me this, she waved her arms in front of her, as if wielding a pair of orange safety batons on the tarmac of her reputation.
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In the village of Kobu in 2003, the court said, at least 49 villagers were rounded up in a banana field and killed with batons, knives and machetes.
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Hours before Allawi's appointment, the blue hats, armed with batons, attacked a skeleton building in Tahrir Square, known as the Turkish Restaurant, that demonstrators have occupied since October.
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Many of the wounded were hit by teargas canisters, the committee said, while witnesses said they saw others being chased by security forces who beat them with batons.
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One afternoon, Wasil and some other boys watched as a squad of about twenty-five French riot police, wielding batons and shields, marched up to the Kids' Café.
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Videos from the scene, which were widely distributed online, appeared to show protesters crying and hugging each other while police officers chased them and threatened them with batons.
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We find a folksy array of batons carried by youth groups, table top sculptures representing heroic workers, gifted to the leader by factories, and patriotic illustrations by schoolchildren.
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By the seventh space I was bored and wished that someone would bring out the batons All in all, I'm not sure whether this show is aptly named.
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She joined others who sang as they marched towards parliament, before police fired volleys of tear gas and officers in riot gear charged the crowd, beating some with batons.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese police fired tear gas, struck demonstrators with batons and arrested several people at a protest against soaring living costs in the center of Khartoum on Tuesday.
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Ronald Purnell struggled for breath in the doorway of a city welfare office on West 14th Street, begging for help as officers kicked him and beat him with batons.
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On Wednesday, police wielding batons and riot shields fired tear gas and rubber bullets at crowds, while protesters used open umbrellas in defense, with some throwing objects at police.
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In the lawsuit, Tornetta says at least two cops unsheathed their batons and began beating him multiple times -- and he suffered serious injuries to his back, skull and face.
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Seeking to clear streets more quickly than before, police fired tear gas and charged with batons at flashpoints from big shopping boulevards to bar-lined streets and railway stations.
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Most of the chaos was centered here in Barcelona, the regional capital, where police fired rubber bullets and used batons on voters trying to enter and defend polling stations.
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Officers reportedly seized items including batons, an air rifle, computer hard drives, and Third Reich propaganda including portraits of Adolf Hitler and Nazi flags, which are illegal in Germany.
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Spanish riot police reportedly used rubber bullets and batons against members of the public trying to vote on Sunday, as well as storming polling stations to seize ballot boxes.
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Men were beaten with batons while they lay on the ground, security agents also used the "falanga" torture, which involves beating the soles of the feet, the report stated.
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The days-long demonstrations took a violent turn last week as authorities beat protesters with batons and shut down mobile internet connections as the unrest spread beyond the capital.
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Philippine police reportedly blasted water cannons and used batons on protesters demonstrating outside of the U.S. Embassy in Manila shortly ahead of President Trump's arrival at the diplomatic compound.
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The confrontation saw police wielding batons at crowds seeking to vote in the banned ballot and prompted the then-conservative to impose direct rule from Madrid on the region.
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They wielded batons and fired rubber bullets in an attempt to close down polling stations and disperse voters — clashes that dominated news coverage, as the vote descended into chaos.
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Police clashed with pro-democracy supporters as recently as Sunday when authorities used batons and tear gas to disperse the crowd which had legally gathered in the financial district.
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In recent days, government forces have used tear gas, water cannons and batons to beat back crowds of demonstrators — attacks that have also injured lawmakers who joined the protests.
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Hundreds of students of Jamia Millia Islamia university protested against the new law, forcing the police to use tear gas and batons to disperse the crowd, the photographer said.
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Dozens of police with batons and shields surrounded and sealed off the Langham Place shopping mall in Kowloon's Tsim Sha Tsui district after black-clad, masked protesters occupied it.
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One day, filing out to the yard, he walked through a gauntlet of correction officers holding wooden batons, their arms sleeved in tattoos—skulls, dragons, spider webs wrapped around elbows.
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On his way out of the prison, Jay rides in the back of a cop car next to two police officers wielding batons and rifles; the riots are still happening.
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Protesters are still angry about that night after video footage showed riot officers charging into a waiting subway carriage and beating people with batons and dousing them with pepper spray.
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Protesters are still angry about that night after video footage showed riot officers charging into a waiting subway carriage and beating people with batons and dousing them with pepper spray.
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What that something would be was literally fought over at the convention in 1968, where one faction enlisted the Chicago police to hit the other over the head with batons.
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But from my vantage point, as the large, peaceful the march moved from the South End and approached the Boston Common, a line of police carrying batons marched towards them.
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And one more reminder that there are MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD — so major you may as well call them majorettes and stick 'em in front of a marching band twirling batons.
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In all, police recovered 480 weapons from the scene: 151 guns, along with assorted knives, brass knuckles, batons, hammers and the bikers' blunt objects of choice -- padlocks wrapped in bandanas.
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Police in Hong Kong fired tear gas and swung batons at protesters on Saturday as thousands gathered to protest a previous attack on demonstrators, defying authorities' warnings not to march.
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Most of the time, you don't have to wait long, though given the Punisher's preferences, a higher percentage of the action this season involves gunfire rather than fists and batons.
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On Saturday evening, riot police stormed onto subway trains, hitting and arresting passengers and protesters with batons, a large barricade was set alight by protesters in a busy shopping district.
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As China was reminded this week, as riot police officers used pepper spray and batons on demonstrators in Hong Kong, the protests have been holding a mirror up to China.
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The police fired in the air, used tear gas and hit demonstrators with batons to disperse them, only for the crowds to assemble again and try to continue their march.
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The first clashes occurred near the site of a flag-raising ceremony, where police rushed protesters, using pepper spray and beating some with batons in a bid to disperse them.
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King subsequently led what was to be a peaceful on March 28, but things quickly disintegrated into window-breaking and a police response with mace, tear gas, batons and brutality.
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On a recent morning outside the university's library, around a dozen students fenced with foam sticks representing the black batons used by police, and practised shielding blows with their backpacks.
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By the second day, Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor ordered police to spray the children with powerful water hoses, hit them with batons, and threaten them with police dogs.
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Footage of the protests, which were held in more than 285 towns and cities, showed the police sometimes using force to disperse rallies, beating participants with batons and dragging them away.
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And under the batons of Mr Koopman and those like him, choirs dramatically shrank, from groups featuring more than 200 singers to finely tuned ensembles of only four singers per part.
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Tension rose as police used pepper spray beat some protesters with batons as they fell to the ground near where officials were preparing a flag-raising ceremony to mark the handover.
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Who can look away from the images of the courageous marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge meeting Alabama's Public Safety Commissioner Theophilus "Bull" Connor's fire hoses, police batons and attack dogs?
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean police fired tear gas and beat up more than a 100 opposition supporters with batons on Friday after they defied a protest ban in central Harare, witnesses said.
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Masked assailants storm Hong Kong metro station with batons in an apparent attack on pro-democracy protestersChina condemns 'intolerable' Hong Kong protesters for targeting its offices in the semi-autonomous city
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During last year's independence vote, Spanish police attempted to shut down impromptu voting stations, provoking an international outcry with the use of batons and rubber bullets in melees that injured dozens.
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Video footage has emerged showing Iranian forces using firearms, water cannons and tear gas to break up protests, in addition to beating demonstrators with batons, according to the human rights organization.
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Two hours later, protesters had gathered at the scene of the fatal shooting on 71st St. and faced off with authorities who used their batons to push back the furious crowds.
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It is not easy though, to avoid retaliating in the face of vicious dogs and water hoses and armed sheriffs with batons bearing down with malice and hate on unarmed protesters.
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AFP journalists also reviewed public documents that showed government agencies overseeing the camps purchased 2,768 police batons, 550 electric cattle prods, 1,367 pairs of handcuffs, and 2,792 cans of pepper spray.
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Footage of the protests, which were held in more than 80 towns and cities, showed the police sometimes using force to disperse rallies, beating participants with batons and dragging them away.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has banned a far-left website after police raids on its supporters early on Friday turned up knives, batons and catapults, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said.
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Students told CNN then that they were beaten by police with sticks and batons, though Delhi Police have said they were unarmed and used minimum force to bring crowds under control.
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This week, Zimbabwean police used batons, tear gas and water cannon to beat up and disperse supporters of the main opposition party trying to listen to a speech by their leader.
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Police accused the protesters of "rioting" and vandalism, and attempted to disperse them using pepper spray and batons while indoors, and firing tear gas and deploying water cannons on the streets.
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Instead, the Pakistani police said on Sunday, they were given an intoxicating drink and then beaten with batons and hacked with knives, leaving 20 of them dead and four others injured.
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The uniforms, which are produced in part from recycled plastic bottles, incorporate a diagonally-draped red sash similar to those used as batons in Ekiden, Japan's famous long distance relay events.
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After his request, policemen in anti-riot gear emerged from the headquarters swinging batons at and kicking Chamorro, his colleagues and reporters who were at the scene to cover the event.
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When months of chaotic demonstrations arose against Mr. Maduro two years ago, it was largely the National Guard that squelched dissent with batons and bullets, with protesters prosecuted in military courts.
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Videos showed police on several occasions pulling unarmed protesters to the ground and beating them with batons, and CNN saw police point guns which fire rubber bullets at journalists and retreating protesters.
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Look closely at Snuggies for the Revolution and you'll find kaleidoscopic rubber bullets, tasers, tear gas, police batons, and grenade launchers emblazoned on what might be the absolute embodiment of American consumerism.
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San Diego (CNN)Police clad in riot gear and wielding batons began dispersing a crowd of Donald Trump supporters and protesters here Friday night after the presumptive GOP nominee held a rally.
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At the time, police used tear gas, pepper spray and batons to deter the activists who were demanding - but ultimately failed to obtain - open nominations in the city's next chief executive election.
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"In reviewing the body camera footage, there is no indication of any use of batons, no choking of Mr. McMillon or any other evidence of excessive use of force," the report said.
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" The definition of weapon is expansive, and includes not just actual guns but also paintball guns, pepper spray, "non-culinary" knives, Tasers, batons, and the broad category "weapons intended for self-defense.
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They told me that border officials pummel them with fists, kick them, use pepper spray, and beat them with batons, often laughing all the while, then push them back to the border.
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There, on April 22010, in a room that Gambians nicknamed the "Crocodile Hole", agents electrocuted his genitals, beat him with batons, suffocated him with a plastic bag and broke his right hand.
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Police used tear gas, batons, and hot water cannons when violence broke out during a procession in the capital Conakry to mark the burial of 11 people killed during protests in October.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Anti-riot police used batons to break up a peaceful march in Zimbabwe's capital on Wednesday, the latest public protest against how President Robert Mugabe's government has handled the economy.
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There were 22019 such instances in 2016, according to the AP. Uses of less-lethal force, such as tear gas, batons or stun guns, were also down in 2018, the AP reported.
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Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain now has a legacy that includes gruesome photographs and videos of policemen confiscating ballot boxes, using tear gas on voters and swatting elderly women with batons.
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That's the one in which audience members are recruited to flagellate a loin-cloth-clad Jesus with bright foam batons, and even that feels far too jolly to be a true sacrilege.
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They proceeded to kick, punch and beat him with batons for what court documents describe as "an extended period," leaving him with five fractured ribs, a collapsed lung and multiple facial fractures.
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Instead, the city descended into unprecedented chaos on Monday, as protesters demonstrating against a controversial extradition bill stormed the government headquarters, and police cleared protesters massed outside with tear gas and batons.
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Photos and videos posted on social media by witnesses showed a chaotic scene of flying fists, feet and police batons — all in the middle of rush hour traffic along stately Embassy Row.
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After running battles with demonstrators over Tuesday night, riot police were seen using batons on some Hong Kongers and wrestling others to the ground near the Chinese territory's stock exchange, per Reuters.
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Almost everyone loves a carrot, from toddlers clutching the little batons to grown-ups at holiday feasts, where a gleaming platter of roasted carrots radiates a deeper, more complex type of sweetness.
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Guaidó later tried to force his way into the legislative chamber by jumping on top of a fence, but was blocked by members of the National Guard branding plastic shields and batons.
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BRENNER, Austria (Reuters) - Austrian police used batons and pepper spray to repel Italian marchers who were protesting on Sunday against plans for tighter anti-migrant checks at the Alpine Brenner Pass border.
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The police used batons to break up skirmishes between supporters of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the regional Trinamool Congress party in Kankinara, on the outskirts of state capital Kolkata.
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Again and again and again and again the officers throw the full weight of themselves behind their weapons, as if their batons were hammers intent on nailing King's body to the concrete.
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Hundreds of police carrying batons and protective shields formed a barrier between Plahotniuc's house and the crowd, who were shouting "Down with the mafia" and "Power to the people, not to the oligarchs".
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With major roads blocked, Hong Kong's traffic and retail industries grounded to a halt, and things took a turn for violence when police eventually intervened after two months with tear gas and batons.
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Congolese troops and U.N. peacekeepers were forced to fire into the air last Wednesday in a nearby town to disperse Hutu and Nande villagers after the two groups clashed with machetes and batons.
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Police hit people with batons, fired rubber bullets into crowds and forcibly removed would-be voters from polling stations in actions that were condemned internationally but were described by the government as "proportionate".
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The video shows 12 Border Patrol agents, who are armed with batons and a Taser, brutally beating and tasing Rojas — who was lying on the ground with his hands cuffed behind his back.
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Dozens of demonstrators and several police officers were injured after police used batons to disperse crowds and, in some cases, beat protesters taking part in what the authorities said was an illegal demonstration.
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Last September, Winston was the center of a dramatic photo from Charlotte, North Carolina, showing him shirtless and with his fist raised, facing a line of police wearing riot gear and holding batons.
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Once you've gone past fists, Tasers, and batons, and gotten to the gun, you are no longer in the realm of trying to preserve the attacker's life; you're trying to preserve your own.
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On Saturday, a largely peaceful demonstration in a town close to the Chinese border turned violent as protesters hurled umbrellas and hardhats at police, who retaliated by swinging batons and firing pepper spray.
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A witness told Reuters that police officers armed with batons and shields had cleared at least one area of the capital where protests were taking place, but that demonstrators remained in other areas.
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Jesus Arteaga, the director of Tachira's police force, told reporters that two police officers had been arrested for injuring Chacon, adding that police had injured two other people at the protest with batons.
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They would issue deliberately confusing commands and when the inmates failed to comply, the guards would pummel and kick them, use their Taser guns, and shove their fingers and batons into their rectums.
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Along with the uniformed officers, masked, plainclothes Hamas enforcers armed with pistols, batons and wooden rods attacked the protesters, according to witnesses, and prevented journalists and human rights workers from documenting the events.
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On Sunday, onlookers captured video footage of two heavily armed riot policeman beating with batons, throttling and dragging a 69-year-old man during the International Women´s Day march in central Santiago.
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On horseback and armed with teargas and batons, officers attacked the civilians as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, a city landmark named after a former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan.
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A man in an apartment overlooking the scene captured images of the officers beating Mr. King with their batons, kicking him and shocking him with stun guns while he was on the ground.
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Saliha P.P., a 22-year-old masters student, said she was on the Jamia campus when she saw more than 100 policemen storm the campus, fire tear gas and charge students with batons.
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Good and true Americans — as symbolized by a soldier who witnessed 9/11 as a boy and played football, that most rah-rah sport — need to take out their batons and fight back.
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They threw stones at the police and urinated outside the building, prompting officers to respond with batons and the types of rubber projectiles that have been criticized for causing numerous injuries during demonstrations.
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The proposals aim to provide a clearer definition of police force and require independent justification each time a "tool" is used in a force event, such as the deployment of sprays, Tasers and batons.
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In the latest attack, a group of masked young men armed with knives and batons attacked a Roma settlement in the woods near the western city of Lviv shortly before midnight on June 2000.
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In the latest attack, a group of masked young men armed with knives and batons attacked a Roma settlement in the woods near the western city of Lviv shortly before midnight on June 23.
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Hundreds of black-clad protesters armed with bamboo poles and baseball bats fought with police officers wielding batons on a main road following a march against "smart lampposts" that was sparked by surveillance fears.
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CNN teams on the ground saw uniformed members of the People's Armed Police Force (PAP) with riot shields and batons, as well as numerous semi-militarized vehicles, stationed at the city's Bay Sports Center.
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A core group lobbed umbrellas and bricks at the police, who responded with what critics say was excessive force, beating protesters with batons and dousing them with pepper spray and plumes of tear gas.
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Reuters reported that more than 100 riot police confronted protesters, beating some with batons and using pepper spray to disperse the crowds gathered to disrupt a planned ceremony to mark the handover in 1997.
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The batons, rubber bullets and violence used by Spanish police to prevent voting in what Spanish authorities have said was an illegal referendum had shown a "dreadful external image of Spain", he told reporters.
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READ MORE: Pepper spray, batons and a half-bitten finger: Hong Kong's weekend of protests A statement released by 24 pro-democracy MPs Monday accused police of wilfully ignoring the violence in Yuen Long.
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ROME (Reuters) - Police using water cannon and batons clashed on Thursday with refugees who had occupied a small Rome square in defiance of an order to leave a building where they had been squatting.
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But the public silence of good cops sends a different message, that that protection they offer does not extend to threats against us if those threats come with badges and batons and blue uniforms.
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Across Catalonia's separatist heartland of Osona county, politicians said police action, using rubber bullets and batons against voters in the independence vote, left little room in the independence camp for anything short of secession.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's main opposition party called off planned anti-government demonstrations on Friday, saying it aimed to avert bloodshed after police rounded up its followers and dispersed them with batons and water cannon.
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OFAC targeted the organization Ansar-e Hezbollah and its co-founders, Abdolhamid Mohtasham and Hossein Allahkaram, for "violently [attacking] Iranian students with knives, tear gas, and electric batons" and orchestrating acid attacks against women.
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Despite a last-minute court order allowing the demonstration to proceed, the police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse a crowd of hundreds from a square in Harare, beating protesters with batons.
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The soon-to-be-sacked Puigdemont left the chamber to shouts of "President!" and mayors who had come from outlying areas brandished their ceremonial batons and sang the Catalan anthem "Els Segadors" (The Reapers).
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Violent police confrontations have followed; the police fatally shot several young men in Assam State, beat unarmed students with wooden poles in New Delhi, and used tear gas and batons to disperse protests elsewhere.
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In Hotan alone, more than a million dollars has been allocated in the past three years to buy surveillance and security equipment for schools, including helmets, shields and spiked batons, according to procurement records.
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The protests ran for several months and were quelled by hundreds of riot police firing rubber bullets, hurling tear gas and beating up villagers with batons, victims and witnesses told Reuters at the time.
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This time of year, especially, he spends a lot of quality time with his bats, twirling them like batons in the San Diego Padres' clubhouse, gripping and waggling them around in his massive hands.
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The stage was so dark that I was only sure that Esters had caught her batons (which she did every time) once the people who were seated closer to the stage began to cheer.
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Just days later, the wife of an allegedly bipolar man in Pasadena said he called the police for help — but when they arrived, they tased Reginald Thomas, beat him with batons, and kicked him.
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"I am not a huge fan of putting Tasers and batons on our employees, given the risks that are created," Harley Lappin, then the chief of the Bureau of Prisons, told Congress in July 2009.
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Nearly 600 activists marching for African-American voting rights were met on the Edmund Pettus bridge on March 7, 1965, by white state troopers who beat them with batons and sprayed them with tear gas.
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The party called off its protest on Friday in Harare after police there rounded up its followers and dispersed them with batons and water cannon and tear gas, prompting many shops and businesses to close.
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Tossed in beef shank ragù, seasoned with fermented black beans, shiny with bone marrow, dressed with fried shallots, scallions and warm batons of celery, it managed to taste Chinese and Italian at the same time.
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There are images of Muhammad Ali dancing away from the blows of his opponent, civilians trying to dodge the blows of police batons, cowboys attempting to control the power of the wild animals they ride.
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During the independence vote, which Spanish courts had ruled illegal, police attempted to shut down impromptu voting stations, provoking an international outcry with the use of batons and rubber bullets in melees that injured dozens.
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Hong Kong (CNN)Hong Kong descended into scenes of chaos Sunday night, after riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters, and a mob armed with batons attacked people in a metro station.
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Television pictures showed officers in riot gear and with batons charging hundreds of protesters who threw smoke bombs, stones and firecrackers and tried to separate from the police by dragging metal fences into the streets.
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At last year's festival, a combination of crowding and a pressing heat, violence broke out in the audience, with teens throwing handfuls of dirt at police as they pushed into the crowd, swinging rubber batons.
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A gunman on one boat shot at least twice into waters by the dinghy, with what appeared to be a rifle, before men from both vessels shoved and struck the dinghy with long black batons.
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Lam's resignation, the release of people arrested during clashes with the police last week and an investigation into the police's use of batons, tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters in clashes on June 12.
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Pro-democracy demonstrators swarmed the streets of Hong Kong for a 13th straight weekend, throwing petrol bombs, bricks, and setting a massive roadblock on fire as riot police bore down with tear gas and batons.
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Police clashed with opposition party members who had gathered at the Africa Unity Square in Harare's central business district in defiance of the ban on Friday morning, firing tear gas and charging others with batons.
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Late at night, though, video from Hong Kong broadcaster TVB showed police on the platform of Prince Edward subway station swinging batons at passengers who backed into one end of a train car behind umbrellas.
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Lal Swami, a 32-year-old resident of West Bengal's Howrah district, was beaten with long police batons known as lathis when he left his home to buy milk Wednesday, his wife told Indian media.
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For a mob of predominantly white males to gather in paramilitary formation, dressed from head to toe in black, with masks and batons to protest "fascism" shows that this group has no sense of history.
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The video showed four officers in riot gear attacking Mr. Ustinov in a busy Moscow square at the time of a protest rally nearby, pushing him to the pavement and hitting him with rubber batons.
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Police, who have also been seen beating protesters on the ground with batons, say they have shown restraint on the streets in the face of increased violence, including protesters hurling petrol bombs at security forces.
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On Friday, Zimbabwean riot police armed with batons and shields chased away a crowd of journalists waiting for a press conference held by Nelson Chamisa, the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party.
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Despite Spanish police using batons and rubber bullets to disrupt the banned referendum, which was declared unconstitutional by Madrid, the Catalan government said 2.26 million people had cast ballots, a turnout of about 42 percent.
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Earlier in the day, the streets of Catalonia, an industrial and tourism powerhouse accounting for a fifth of Spain's economy, erupted into violence as national police burst into polling stations with batons, dragging voters away.
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Before long, throngs of men in masks had set fires in the street and were hurling bricks at police officers, who struck back with batons and pepper spray and, in some cases, by throwing bricks themselves.
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Yes, encryption per se is a great idea, but when dodging bullets in war zones, gravity friction-lock batons in tin-pot dictatorships or nasty cutlery if you're filming gangs, it isn't going to help you.
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Around 100 riot police in helmets and carrying batons stood behind the shattered glass as a small group of protesters rammed the windows ahead of a planned rally to mark the former British colony's 1997 handover.
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In addition to scores of new batons, tactical armor, rifle scopes, and patrol bicycles, the CPD has also been loaned three armored response and rescue vehicles and increased their protest insurance from $9.5 to 50 million.
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In February police used batons and pepper spray and fired two warning shots into the air in Mongkok district during a crackdown on unlicensed street hawkers that snowballed into a riot—China blamed it on "separatists".
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DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladeshi police used water cannons, tear gas and batons to disperse thousands of protesting garment factory workers on Wednesday, after they pressed their demands for higher wages by blocking roads for a fourth day.
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The night before, demonstrators had briefly turned the cramped area around Beijing's Central Liaison Office in Hong Kong into a battleground reminiscent of the worst of the 2014 protests, replete with police batons and tear gas.
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On Sunday, in a confrontation that recalled the enormous pro-democracy demonstrations of 2014, the police used batons and pepper spray to drive off thousands of protesters attempting to storm the Chinese government's Hong Kong headquarters.
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Carrying placards declaring "Dump Trump" and "Down with U.S. Imperialism", the left-wing protesters were blocked by police in riot gear with shields and batons, and then showered with jets of water from a fire engine.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's government is investigating a video that appears to show Congolese troops shooting dead a group of apparent militia members armed with slingshots and wooden batons, the human rights minister said.
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The prosecutor's indictment alleges that in March last year, armed with knives, axes and batons, the accused attempted to kill four people and seriously injured others at a restaurant on the outskirts of Portugal's capital Lisbon.
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They took to the streets to protest the police violence that occurred during the referendum—with Spanish riot police closing off polling stations and using batons and rubber bullets to stop voters from casting their ballots.
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Protests that were mostly peaceful were first marred by morning clashes with the police, who used batons and pepper spray against protesters outside a ceremony commemorating the 22nd anniversary of Hong Kong's return to Chinese control.
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One video shows an officer continuously shooting pepper spray into the face of a seemingly unarmed man, and another captures a male protester being beaten to the ground by a group of officers armed with batons.
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Protesters picketing outside Amazon&aposs Paris headquarters, as well as activists at a sit-down protests at a Lyon distribution centre ended up in a conflict with riot police carrying batons and shields, the BBC reported.
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When the camera lens becomes clear, Rodney King is sprawled out across the concrete surrounded by five officers, two of whom are indiscriminately swinging their 19913-foot-long aluminum batons in the direction of his body.
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The music will continue as everyone marches together to the banks of the Missouri, on the other side of which a line of guards in riot gear will be standing ready with rifles, mace, batons, and dogs.
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A meal might end with Balkan treats like ruske kape, cylindrical cakes that call to mind Russian hats, chocolate on top with coconut clinging to the sides; and tullumba, batons of crenelated dough soaked in sugar syrup.
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They had earlier raced towards protesters, beating some with batons as they fell to the ground, and used pepper spray to try to disperse crowds gathered near where officials were preparing a ceremony to mark the handover.
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The protest in Sheung Shui, not far from the Chinese city of Shenzhen, started peacefully but devolved into skirmishes, with demonstrators throwing umbrellas and hard hats at police who retaliated by swinging batons and firing pepper spray.
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On June 12, for the first time, the police used pepper spray, batons and more than 150 canisters of tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters, a small number of whom had thrown projectiles at the police.
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They describe how a group of guards assigned to supervise 56-year-old Kevin Moore beat, kicked and struck him with batons after he talked back to them — and left him lying in a pool of blood.
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Manuel Condeminas, a 48-year-old IT manager who tried to block police from driving away with ballot boxes on Sunday, said police had kicked him and others before using their batons and firing the rubber bullets.
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"It could all get worse," the moderate Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia said in an editorial after Spanish police used batons and rubber bullets to disrupt the vote, sparking violence that Catalan officials say injured around 840 people.
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A Reuters witness saw troops wielding batons, including riot police and members of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), deploy in central Khartoum and close roads, apparently to try to block people from reaching the protest site.
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One video circulated by the Hong Kong-based newspaper Apple Daily appeared to show a protester who had already fallen to the ground being beaten by a group of helmet-clad riot police wielding batons and shields.
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Police beatings with batons and metal rods, stomping downed protestors' heads, shootings with beanbags and rubber bullets, spraying with toxic gases, and choke-holds, manhandling and bundling young people into police vans hardly qualify as "humane" treatment.
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In a subway station in the Prince Edward neighborhood, officers from the police's Special Tactical Squad entered a stopped train, using batons to hit people who were crouching on the floor and dousing them with pepper spray.
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Early in the day, hundreds of riot police officers had used batons and pepper spray to beat back protesters at a different site — near a government flag-raising ceremony attended by the city's chief executive, Mrs. Lam.
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As families held the first funerals for the victims, many of them women and children, protesters clashed with the police and set fire to a car before the authorities dispersed the crowds using tear gas and batons.
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MANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaraguan police on Saturday beat at least seven journalists with batons, including one of the country's best known editors, in an escalating crackdown on independent media in the aftermath of protests against President Daniel Ortega.
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Local news videos showed officers from the police Special Tactical Squad charging a train at the Prince Edward station in Kowloon and using batons to hit several people who were crouching on the floor of a car.
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Local news videos showed officers from the police Special Tactical Squad charging a train at the Prince Edward station in Kowloon and using batons to hit several people who were crouching on the floor of a car.
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National police sent in to Catalonia for the referendum swept into polling stations, hitting people with batons, firing rubber bullets into crowds and forcibly removing would-be voters from polling stations, some dragged away by their hair.
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CERT members in full riot gear burst into the jail, rounding up the inmates with "by any means necessary" tactics (batons, shields, lithium, the usual arsenal) and, assumedly, make plans to ship them off to a new prison.
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Recently, a prisoner I was with in Attica arrived in Sing Sing, and told me the worst of the old guard had left, the setups and beatdowns were over, and COs now use pepper spray instead of batons.
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While the protests have been largely peaceful up until this point, on Wednesday police also used water cannons, pepper spray, and batons as some people threw things they could find on hand, like traffic cones, at riot police.
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During a six-month test run in 2015, Denver police only had their cameras turned on one out of every four times they reported using force against civilians; punches, strikes with police batons, and pepper spray went unrecorded.
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Image 2 of 2 DHAKA, Bangladesh – Police in Bangladesh&aposs capital fired tear gas and used batons on Saturday to disperse hundreds of protesting students angry over the traffic deaths of two fellow students, leaving many people injured.
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The euro slipped 0.3 percent to $1.1776, as investors nervously watched the situation in Spain, where police used batons and rubber bullets to thwart the Catalan vote on Sunday in a show of force that left hundreds injured.
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Russian broadcasters and social media feeds – always keen to jump on anything that undermines the European political mainstream – gave front-page coverage to the news of riot police using rubber bullets and batons to stop the Catalonia vote.
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About 15 people were protesting peacefully outside the U.N. peacekeeping mission's headquarters in the eastern city of Goma when police violently dispersed them with batons, said Jose Maria Aranaz, director of the U.N. human rights office in Congo.
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Mattis said Wednesday that "there has been no call for any lethal force from DHS," saying that any troops backing up Customs and Border Patrol would not be carrying firearms but could be equipped with shields and batons.
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Tens of thousands of people attended Sunday's protest which ended in chaos in a shopping mall, with scores of protesters threw umbrellas, hard-hats and plastic bottles at police who fired pepper spray and hit out with batons.
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Smaller demonstrations have broken out across the region, but some have been squelched, including one on Monday in Peshawar, in which protesters said that the security forces used batons to drive off demonstrators at a peaceful sit-in.
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The protest on Sunday was mostly peaceful, but after midnight, dozens of remaining demonstrators tried to occupy areas around the legislature and clashed with police officers who used pepper spray and batons in an effort to remove them.
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Capturing people from behind became something of a trademark for Cosman: conductors aiming their batons at their orchestras, Balinese dancers shimmying away from the viewer, and her elderly mother hobbling off into the distance supported by a nursemaid.
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CNN teams in the mainland Chinese city of Shenzhen saw uniformed members of the People's Armed Police Force with riot shields and batons, as well as numerous semi-militarized vehicles, stationed at the city's Bay Sports Center yesterday.
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They show that Puerto Rican police used tear gas on large crowds packed into confined streets, fired rubber-coated metal pellets from shotguns at close range and used batons to beat protesters who did not pose a threat.
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In the university's heart, littered with smashed glass and covered in revolutionary graffiti spray-painted on the walls, the black-clad demonstrators in gas masks sawed metal poles into batons and practiced firing rocks from a makeshift catapult.
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The demonstrators chanted "civilian, civilian" as they gathered in front of the National Ribat University in Burri neighborhood near the ministry of defense, but security forces quickly chased them and beat them with batons, a Reuters witness said.
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David Rodriguez, 40, who owns an information technology company, said he hung a flag outside his home in Escorial, in the province of Madrid, after police were criticized for using rubber bullets and batons to thwart the independence vote.
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As the situation intensified at moments, with several volleys of bottles being tossed between the sides, police officers moved in, forcefully and at times aggressively pushing back Trump supporters, protesters and media caught in the scrum with their batons.
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The migrants alleged that the crew aboard the Coast Guard cutter told them they needed to ask for permission to stand up and threatened them with metal batons, water hoses and pepper spray if they did so without authorization.
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The euro edged down 0.1 percent to $1.1796, as investors nervously watched the situation in Spain, where police used batons and rubber bullets to thwart the Catalan vote on Sunday in a show of force that left hundreds injured.
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Los Angeles (CNN)The video was silent, but it spoke volumes: three white Los Angeles police officers, supervised by a sergeant, threw Rodney King to the ground, tased, kicked and stomped him, and battered him with batons 56 times.
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BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi police wielded batons and rubber hoses to disperse about 250 protesters gathered at the main entrance to the Zubair oilfield near Basra on Tuesday as unrest across southern cities over poor basic services gathered pace.
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David Rodriguez, 40, who owns an information technology company, said he hung a flag outside his home in Escorial, in the province of Madrid, after police were criticised for using rubber bullets and batons to thwart the independence vote.
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In the northwestern suburb of Tin Shui Wai, riot police fired tear gas and charged with batons at a group of protesters who alleged male officers had committed sexual violence in their treatment of a female protester on Monday.
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"Women and girls interviewed by Human Rights Watch described the perpetrators as mostly police officers or men in uniform who often carried guns, batons, tear gas canisters, whips, or wore helmets and other anti-riot gear," the report says.
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When the diggers and bulldozers came at them, in 2005 and 2006, they tied themselves to roofs and fences and took fists and bamboo poles to the metal batons and shields and helmets of the South Korean riot police.
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These protests have continued in several other cities and at universities, including in Isfahan for a few days, during which security forces used tear gas and batons to contain and crack down against any attempt to expand the protests.
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READ: What the hell are Ukrainian fascists doing in the Hong Kong protests In the district's glitzy Harbour City shopping mall, plainclothes police stormed the mall and were filmed and beating black-clad protesters with batons, while shoppers screamed.
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SANT PERE DE TORELLO, Spain (Reuters) - As Spanish police wielded batons and fired rubber bullets at crowds attempting to vote in Catalonia's banned independence referendum on Sunday, the region's own police force gave many voters a much gentler reception.
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The bloc is seeking to ban the trade of goods such as batons with metal spikes, electric shock belts and lethal drug cocktails, its members said at a side event to the United Nations' annual General Assembly which begins on Tuesday.
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In a scene widely circulated on social media, a man in a green hooded sweatshirt is chased and taken down by riot officers, who strike him with batons and kick him multiple times as he lay motionless on the ground.
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More than 100 riot police raced towards protesters, beating some with batons as they fell to the ground, and used pepper spray to try to disperse crowds gathered near where officials were preparing a ceremony to mark the 1997 handover.
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Playing the "Mandela" card The Harley Davidsons roar into a stadium as a drone camera flies over a sea of cheering blue, drum majorettes twirl their batons and a marching band blasts past, drowned out by the revving bike engines.
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On Sunday, an afternoon protest march attended by tens of thousands of people ended in chaos in a shopping mall, where scores of protesters threw umbrellas and plastic bottles at police who retaliated by firing pepper spray and swinging batons.
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A spokesman for the regional Mossos police said three people had been detained near the local headquarters of the Spanish government, where police charged into the crowd with batons to try to gain space after there were problems with police fences.
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It's the second time this month that pro-democracy activists have come under attack: Last week, a mob of men armed with rods and batons stormed a metro station in Yuen Long, attacking protesters who were returning from a demonstration.
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During the civil disobedience movement that ran for 79 straight days, protesters, sometimes numbering in their thousands, faced off repeatedly with the police who used batons, tear gas and pepper spray — drawing some criticism for the excessive use of force.
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Riot police used batons and pepper spray early on Tuesday to disperse crowds after clashes erupted when authorities tried to move illegal street vendors from a working-class district, the worst street violence since pro-democracy protests in late 2014.
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Starlight Vagabonds single-handedly keep rave toy companies in business, and can be seen flashing their light-up respirator masks and LED batons while hula-hooping to a Bassnectar or Infected Mushroom set played out of their hemp seed speakers.
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Video footage of the event posted to Instagram shows at least 3 activists beaten back with batons by the municipal guards after attempting to enter the cinema upstairs, with at least one sustaining serious injuries and being taken to hospital.
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The protests and the forceful police response — first with batons and pepper spray, and then with tear gas — ignited what became known as the Umbrella Movement, as tent cities sprung up across the city where demonstrators used umbrellas as shields.
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But on June 12, the discussion and demands changed when the police used pepper spray, batons and more than 150 canisters of tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters, a small number of whom had thrown projectiles at the police.
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But behind their shields and batons, many police officers are enduring the same economic turmoil — and share many of the same grievances — as the protesters they are battling, testing their loyalties to the government they have been sent to defend.
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"This is inhuman, the life of the migrants," said Wali Khan from Afghanistan, showing bruises on his hands that he said were inflicted by the Croatian police beating him with batons when he tried to cross the border earlier this week.
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Dozens of Mexican National Guard troops equipped with helmets, batons and transparent shields coalesced on the highway connecting the Mexican cities of Ciudad Hidalgo and Tapachula to stop a caravan of migrants heading to the United States from Central America.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese security forces used teargas and batons on Thursday to disperse thousands of protesters demanding the reinstatement of army officers dismissed last week for refusing to crack down on demonstrations against former president Omar al-Bashir, witnesses said.
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A video of his arrest published online, however, showed Mr. Ustinov standing calmly with a phone in his hand when four police officers in riot gear suddenly grabbed him, pushed him to the ground and beat him with rubber batons.
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There's plenty of showmanship in crisp-tender blush prawns bathed in coral sauce made with prawn head fat and layered with jicama batons and wisps of fresh dill; frozen ricotta is dusted over the bowl, releasing a dry ice cloud.
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Ingredients and order vary: scattered scallions, cilantro and zha cai (pickled mustard root); fat brush strokes of tianmianjiang (sweet bean paste) and chile sauce; and fried dough in the form of fluffy batons (you tiao) or flat blistered rectangles (bao cui).
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On December 15, clashes between the police and students escalated on two Muslim university campuses — Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh and of Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi — resulting in the police using batons and tear gas on students.
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The protests in Hong Kong, initially focused on legislation that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, expanded to include accusations of police brutality after the police began using batons, pepper spray, rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse crowds.
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The protests in Hong Kong, initially focused on legislation that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, expanded to include accusations of police brutality after the police began using batons, pepper spray, rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse crowds.
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They didn't get far—at the corner of L and 12th streets, the march was surrounded by police, who subjected Horse and the rest of the group to clouds of pepper spray, dozens of "stingball" grenades, and strikes from batons.
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Protesters rallied in and around Lung Wo Road, a main east-west artery near the offices of embattled Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, as hundreds of riot police, some armed with batons and plastic shields, warned them to stop advancing.
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From stun guns to batons and body contact, police used force on blacks at rates more than three times higher than for whites, the researchers found in a review of data from 12 police departments representing a cross-section of the United States.
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Video from a demonstration Monday at the offices of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission in Nairobi shows riots officers firing tear gas and beating protesters with batons, including a man who was repeatedly struck and kicked after being taken down by police.
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The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported earlier this month that Cleveland plans to buy 2,000 sets of riot gear, including riot-control suits and collapsible batons, as part of the city's latest move to spend a $50 million federal security grant for the convention.
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White supremacists marched into Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday brandishing shields, batons, and pepper spray, and the result was shocking violence — with the deaths of a young woman who was run over by a car, and two police officers killed in a helicopter crash.
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"The torture that Mr. Hekmati endured included being whipped at the bottom of his feet, struck by an electrical Taser to his kidney area, forced to stay in stress positions for hours at a time, and hit with batons," the document alleges.
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Along with bullets and handcuffs, batons and body-armor, the tear gas made by Safariland is a weapon of counterinsurgency, designed for use by police forces, prison guards, militaries, and border patrols, to literally beat down and choke our efforts at liberation.
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Tension was high as police earlier raced towards protesters, beating some with batons as they fell to the ground, and used pepper spray to try to disperse crowds gathered near where officials were preparing a flag-raising ceremony to mark the handover.
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NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Authorities in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Monday ordered an investigation into reports that police attacked and beat female students with wooden batons during a protest demanding action after a spate of campus sex attacks.
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Defense Secretary James Mattis said Wednesday "there has been no call for any lethal force from (the Department of Homeland Security)," saying that any troops backing up customs personnel would not be carrying firearms but could be equipped with shields and batons.
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Spanish police used batons and rubber bullets to thwart an independence vote in Catalonia on Sunday in a show of force that left hundreds injured, according to Catalan officials, and presented Madrid with a huge challenge to calm tensions in the region.
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PARIS — During Paris' annual May Day protests Wednesday, protestors broke the pavement and threw chunks of it at the police, who responded with batons and fired tear gas at multiple crowds in attempts to control factions bent on rioting, like Black Bloc.
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Related: Watch 'Undercover Migrant,' our documentary about the lives of London's immigrants The Grunwick strike was great for race relations in the UK. Local Irish people brought tea and snacks to the pickets, and black and white people braved police batons together.
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The swans are made of the same components as an éclair — choux paste and pastry cream — but rather than piping out straight batons, you pipe plump teardrops that swell during baking into the ample bodies of what will become these custard-filled majesties.
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Footage of unarmed protesters fleeing like ants from clouds of tear gas or facing off with riot police officers pointing batons at them was broadcast around the world, an unfamiliar sight in the wealthy Asian financial hub famed for its glitzy skyscrapers.
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Rolled out to about the size of a piece of pie dough and cut into tiny batons, as long and thick as French fries, it's left out for hours to firm up and dry out, to get ready for a long simmer.
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The police have been accused of brutality for their use of tear gas, batons, rubber bullets, water cannons, and bean bag rounds, while Amnesty International has documented more extreme cases of police violence, resulting in injuries ranging from head wounds to broken arms.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean police on Wednesday used batons, tear gas and water cannon to beat up and disperse supporters of the main opposition party who had gathered outside their party headquarters in the capital to listen to a speech by their leader.
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AFP journalists who reviewed more than 13,500 publicly available government documents also describe disturbing purchases made by government agencies that oversee the so-called education centers: 2,768 police batons, 550 electric cattle prods, 1,367 pairs of handcuffs, and 2,792 cans of pepper spray.
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Close to a thousand police officers, some with riot shields and batons, and some behind temporary metal barricades, were deployed to prevent protesters surging towards the central government's Liaison Office, viewed by many as a symbol of Beijing's increasing influence on the free-wheeling city.
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Footage posted on social media Sunday night showed a marauding gang of masked men, wearing white T-shirts and wielding batons and sticks, blindly attacking crowds on the platform and inside train carriages at Yuen Long MTR station, in the far northwest of the city.
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During one such display, captured on video by country singer Terry McBride and posted to his Facebook page, Ashford is seen shaking his hips and waving his orange batons as he moves aside the aircraft, giving passengers a bow once he wraps up his routine.
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Close to a thousand police officers, some with riot shields and batons, and some behind temporary metal barricades, were deployed to prevent protesters surging toward the central government's Liaison Office, viewed by many as a symbol of Beijing's increasing influence on the free-wheeling city.
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An incident in which riot police armed with shields and batons interrogated a pregnant woman at her bedside in a hospital labour ward has become a rallying cry for medical professionals who fear that patient confidentiality and high standards of treatment are under threat.
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The EU has bans on the death penalty and on trade in torture equipment, but Malmstrom said last year batons subject to a ban were being sold at a security fair in Paris, because the EU had not expressly forbidden marketing of such goods.
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Hundreds of riot police officers with helmets and shields used batons and pepper spray to push back people who tried to march to the site of an annual ceremony on Monday morning marking the 22nd anniversary of the territory's return to China from Britain.
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ZACHARY WOOLFE Descending on New York, With Batons WHAT Three of the world's greatest orchestras WHEN March 220-212; April 11-13; May 4, 6, 7 The Berlin Philharmonic might not be visiting New York this spring, but three conductors with links to it are.
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MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Police using tear gas, pepper spray and batons broke up fights between Polish soccer fans in the southern French city of Marseille on Tuesday, detaining at least 12 of them ahead of Poland's final Euro 2016 group stage match against Ukraine.
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Earlier this month, the city of Cleveland solicited bids on its contracting website for interlocking steel barriers and 2,000 sets of riot gear, including collapsible batons, as it prepares to spend the $50 million federal grant set aside to pay for convention security needs.
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The retail group's statement came after a relatively peaceful rally descended into chaos late on Sunday, when protesters in a shopping mall that houses some of the world's largest luxury brands threw umbrellas and plastic bottles at police who retaliated by firing pepper spray and swinging batons.
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The retail group's statement came after a relatively peaceful rally descended into chaos late on Sunday, when protesters in a shopping mall housing some of the world's largest luxury brands threw umbrellas and plastic bottles at police who retaliated by firing pepper spray and swinging batons.
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The Ohio chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, which is training legal observers to ensure that people's rights are not violated, said the city has purchased 2,000 sets of riot gear, 2,000 steel batons, 24 sets of bulletproof vests and helmets and 10,000 sets of plastic handcuffs.
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KISUMU/NAIROBI Kenya (Reuters) - Six-month-old Samantha Pendo was sleeping with her mother when police in the city of Kisumu in western Kenya forced the wooden door open a crack, fired in teargas and battered the choking baby and her parents with batons, her parents said.
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"I continue to hold fast to the belief that it is the right thing to do," she said in a televised interview on Wednesday, as tens of thousands of protesters surrounded the legislature and police officers forced them back with batons, tear gas and rubber bullets.
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Read more: Conditions are so dire at the US-Mexico border that migrants are getting sick and contracting lice and chicken pox Over those 11 months, there were 743 cases of agents and officers using less-lethal force, like batons, stun guns, tear gas, and pepper spray.
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In particular, US exports of tear gas and other law enforcement equipment, such as pepper spray and police helmets, shields, batons, to Hong Kong require a license from the Department, and the Department consults with the Departments of State and Defense in reviewing such license applications.
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At a few polling stations, Spanish police actively tried to stop votes from being cast—by raiding and sealing some, and by using violence at others; you might have seen the footage of riot police using batons on protesters, and drop-kicking and dragging voters by their hair.
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"Why go in there with batons and guns when you can go in with something simple, like a sound generator?" said Dr. Geoffrey S. F. Ling, a neurologist at Johns Hopkins University and the former director of the Biological Technologies Office of the federal Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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Elsewhere across my state, I watched footage of the police charging their batons to disperse crowds; they ordered a group of men to perform sit-ups while holding their ears and drew Lakshman Rekha (a circle marked by chalk) in front of shops for people to maintain social distancing.
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News footage and videos shared on social media showed members of the police Special Tactical Squad, in dark uniforms with their faces covered, charging into a waiting train car at Prince Edward Station and swinging batons at men and women who cowered on the floor, offering no resistance.
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A mural commissioned by the French city of Grenoble as part of a street art festival caused a stir for its depiction of the allegorical figure of Marianne (a symbol of the French republic) cowering as two police officers in riot gear approach her with their batons raised.
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"We are demanding the sacking of the governor and removal of all corrupt officials from the province," said Faris Abdel Karim, who helped organize a protest outside the house of the provincial governor in the city of Nasiriya, where police fired in the air, wielded batons and fired tear gas.
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Disturbances have largely subsided in recent days, but police used tear gas, pepper spray and batons to break up fights between Polish soccer fans in the southern French city of Marseille on Tuesday, detaining at least 12 of them ahead of Poland's final Euro 2016 group stage match against Ukraine.
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It was a beautiful time, people had art galleries in their attics, and every weekend there was a show to go to, or some kind of absurdist performance theater, where women took off their clothes, even ugly women with misshapen bodies, and men swung around their erections like police batons!
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Instead of fixing up a real cell with a dirty floor, a freestanding toilet, and the kind of bars that the guards drag their batons along, they put me in a small yellow room with shelves on the wall, a desk of light wood, and a fat TV without a remote.
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The bank has been conducting a review of the project since Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, and Representative Jim McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts, expressed concern about it in August and after an independent researcher found evidence suggesting that funds were being used to buy police batons and tear gas launchers.
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The vote had been outlawed by the Spanish government and the Constitutional Court but went ahead anyway despite chaotic and violent scenes of riot police trying to prevent voting from taking place, with reports of rubber bullets being used against crowds and footage showing the police wielding batons against voters.
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Then, they all turn on, showing the same footage of a man lying on a darkened stretch of road, illuminated only by headlights, surrounded by several LAPD officers, who proceed to taser, kick, and hit him with their batons for several minutes — instantly recognizable as the 1991 Rodney King beating.
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It was a pretty intimidating moment, not knowing if they were going to wade into us with batons twirling, but our highly excited friends kept their cool and danced in the cops searchlight beams—keeping the mood so smiley that the police were left feeling ridiculously overdressed for the occasion.
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You can also get a sense of what goes on in the camps by examining the lists of equipment that the Chinese government agencies order for the camps — in one case, that included 2,768 police batons, 550 electric cattle prods, 1,367 pairs of handcuffs, and 2,792 cans of pepper spray.
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Recruits also closely study the department's "use-of-force continuum," which dictates what level of force is appropriate in response to a suspect's behavior: tasers and batons can be used when a suspect is kicking or punching an officer, but generally not when a suspect is simply trying to get away.
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Iranian authorities kept Hekmati in solitary confinement in a small cell for 17 months, whipped the bottoms of his feet, tased his kidney area, put him in stress positions for hours, hit him with batons, and severely deprived him of sleep, according to the lawsuit, reported by the Marine Corps Times.
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Other standout images are the photographs of Schlemmer's "Danse des batons" (163), where a protoplasmic body and mechanic spatial conceptions are visualized as self-prosthesis, and "Oskar Schlemmer tenant un masque et Élément coordonnée" (1931), in which he depicts his human face as no longer the sole grounds for subjectivity.
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The report tracks a 24-month-long period between 2014 and 2016 and contains several significant findings: Incidents of officers using moderate-level force — involving less-lethal weapons, like batons — to higher-level force, like using guns, have fallen by 60 percent, compared to a similar period in 2009 to 2011.
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Toshio Matsumoto's Anpo Joyaku (1959), with its bold pronouncements — "Anpo began with knocking farmers on the heads with batons," the narrator says — and jarring visuals, including an ending which mixes footage of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the sound of babies crying, is closer to a political rallying cry.
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As Mr. King lay on the ground offering no resistance, he was surrounded by officers, one of whom shocked him with a stun gun as others hit him more than 50 times with their batons and kicked him in the head and body at least seven times while he begged them to stop.
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Protesters in Hong Kong threw gasoline bombs at government headquarters and set fires in the streets on Saturday, while police stormed a subway car and hit passengers with batons and pepper spray in scenes that seem certain to inflame tensions further in a city riven by nearly three months of pro-democracy demonstrations.
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The Maidan — where thousands had stayed through frigid nights, building barricades, huddling around oil-drum fires, tearing up cobblestones, filling molotov cocktails, singing the national anthem every hour on the hour, enduring the tear gas and police batons of a half-dozen botched raids — beckoned both men, and they headed for Ukraine.
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But in a video of the arrest, published online, Mr. Ustinov is seen walking on a busy public plaza with a phone in his hand, when four police officers in riot gear walk quickly up to him, push him to the ground, beat him with rubber batons and then lead him away.
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Jacob Angelo Servin said in an Instagram post on Tuesday that deputies with the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office "held me down beat me, choked me, kicked me and tried to snap my neck, with their fists and batons one by one" after he was arrested on suspicion of being drunk in public.
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Police carrying shields and weapons and backed by some 20 riot vans then charged the demonstrators in an attempt to disperse them, splitting the crowd in two along Via Laietana near the police HQ. Reuters TV footage showed police armed with batons forcing their way through the crowd while demonstrators threw stones and flares.
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It's not my fantasy — I still think the film's dedication to spraying women with fluids and hefting them around like parade batons is mighty damn weird — but I love that it exists, and that it did well, and that it came across as such a conversation-starter about women's sexuality and women's box office power.
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The data from nearly 1,000 shifts and 50,000 hours of police-public interactions showed that when officers wore bodycams, they were less likely to use batons, Tasers, firearms and pepper spray or to have confrontations that resulted in police-dog bites, and they were far less likely to receive civilian complaints about their conduct.
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Though the track became associated with the 1992 L.A. riots, it was written in 1990 and Ice-T had been performing it before it was recorded in 1991, the same year black motorist Rodney King was stopped by four white LAPD officers for a traffic violation and beaten more than 50 times with batons.
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SOG Baton Q1, Q2, Q3, Q943The SOG Baton Q1, Q2, Q3, an Q4 all feature anodized metal housings so you're probably not going to want to chew on the end like a cheap BiC ballpoint pen Each of the Batons also feature a small assortment of tools including everything from knives, to pliers, to scissors, flashlights, and screwdrivers.
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The Post also reports that, over the past two months, the city has prepared for the potential for violence at the convention in July and sought bids for 2,000 sets of riot gear, knee and shin guards, breastplates, and other protective items for its police officers, as well as flexible handcuffs, collapsible batons and miles of interlocking steel barriers.
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"In addition to all of the other prohibited items we find weekly in carry-on bags, our officers also regularly find firearm components, realistic replica firearms, bb and pellet guns, airsoft guns, brass knuckles, ammunition, batons, stun guns, small pocketknives and many other prohibited items too numerous to note," the TSA said in a blog post.
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Twelve people were arrested outside of the Turkish embassy in Rotterdam early on Sunday after police in riot gear used batons, dogs and water cannons to disperse crowds of protesters angry that the Dutch government had denied entry to two Turkish officials looking to campaign for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan among the large number of Turkish dual-nationals living there.
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