Still, they acknowledged that with protesters coming here, many with their own plans and causes, the possibility of escalating confrontations between police and protesters cannot be dismissed.
Commanders allowed protesters to gather in the road and remained largely out of sight, preventing the escalating confrontations that led to dozens of arrests at past demonstrations.
One Chinese artist whose works will not be shown at the China Pavilion this year is Ai Weiwei, perhaps the country's best-known contemporary artist, in part because of his escalating confrontations with the Communist Party.
Unit 101 carried out raids against Jordanian villages suspected of harboring Palestinian guerrillas, and he gained a reputation as a commander who would repeatedly escalate confrontations with the Arabs.
The announcement, made through official news media reports, came after a week of escalating confrontations between Washington and Tehran, including a threat that Iran would respond with military force if the United States tried to send an aircraft carrier strike group back into the Strait of Hormuz.
Seattle police officers resort too quickly to the use of weapons like batons and flashlights, and escalate confrontations even when arresting people for minor offenses, because of inadequate supervision and training, the Justice Department said Friday in announcing findings from a seven-month investigation.
Over the next hour, Fass talks to one caller after another and teases out the story, about how a plainclothes detective shot a man whom he'd seen shoot another man on the street, and about the rage in the escalating confrontations between residents and police.
And it put the nation's bloggers right in the crosshairs of rapidly escalating confrontations.
Many officers reported that the equipment changed citizen behavior and helped to de-escalate confrontations between civilians and police.
Both in community forums and in the lawsuit, the lawyers challenge why police did not follow now-standard police procedures to de-escalate confrontations with mentally ill subjects, but instead did "the absolute opposite".
