On Wednesday, a battalion of combat engineers sorted gear in front of television news crews.
But the situation then became ridiculous as the American and his team had to take off their gear in front of spectators in the town of Longjumeau outside Paris.
By Jelani Cobb July 10, 2016 A man attempts to keep protesters from engaging with police in riot gear in front of the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters on Saturday after police attempted to clear the street in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Sarkozy, meanwhile, encountered only sunny spells, first during his final departure from the Élysée, waving from his car window, then as he emerged hours later in his running gear in front of TV cameras for a post-presidential jog around a Paris park under a rare moment of blue sky.
The work is carried out by installers like Tirso Ortega, who recently slogged through mud with his gear in front of a home in the tony San Francisco suburb of Hillsborough.
Protesters complained they had no place to go with a wall of police in riot gear in front of them and thousands of demonstrators behind them leaving Times Square.
He enters with no entrance music and changes into his fighting gear in front of the crowd, relishing their stares as he pulls on his shorts.
In the midst of busy shops, they had fanned out in full battle gear in front of a well-known carpet store, dropped to one knee, and assumed the firing position.
We got to the main gathering of sound systems and we were greeted with about 20 riot vans and about 60 officers in full riot gear in front of the speakers," he tells me.
