Sentence examples for direction of police from inspiring English sources

Be patient and obey the direction of police manning intersections.

Perhaps the most notable application of the theory was in New York City under the direction of Police Commissioner William Bratton.

He was seen picking up the half-empty canister, discarded by another student, before spraying the crowd below and then throwing it in the direction of police beneath.

Later, however, a small group of protesters threw rocks in the direction of police officers, and at least six people were wounded in the fracas, according to Brazilian news media reports.

On Saturday, a small group threw cans and plastic bottles in the direction of police officers.

A protester kicks a smoke grenade that had been deployed by police back in the direction of police Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo.

The general election therefore presented voters with a stark choice concerning the post-Bloomberg direction of policing in New York City.

Mr. Harrison and his codefendants are charged with violating a provision of parks regulation 1-03 formally known as "Failure to Comply with Directions of Police Officers, Urban Park Rangers, Parks Enforcement Patrol Officers, or Other Department Employees, or Park Signs".

The Interfax-Ukraine new agency said several hundred protesters gathered outside the government building on Monday and various objects "started flying in the direction of the police", prompting the police to don gas masks and form a human chain.

An effort to clear protesters resulted in scuffles: protesters hurled multiple firecrackers in the direction of the police, and accused police of prioritizing the safety of white nationalists over D.C. residents.

We may have been heading in the direction of a police state, these observers argue, but at least it was an inefficient police state.