Sentence examples for police wielding from inspiring English sources

Police wielding batons and firing tear gas charged the demonstrators.

That raises several questions: Why were the police wielding machetes?

The next day, riot police wielding electric-shock batons broke up the demonstration in Democracy Square.

They also brought police, wielding clubs on behalf of specific economic interests.

Mr Scipione said the man charged at police, wielding two long-bladed knives.

Protesters asking for nothing more radical than mild changes to the electoral system were met on the streets by riot police wielding tear gas and water cannon.

Witnesses say riot police wielded batons to beat them back.The man who is preparing to take over as China's prime minister, Li Keqiang, has particular reason to prefer that Henan's AIDS crisis is dealt with quietly.

Using archival and new material and a combination of found sound and a clipped voice-over that initially, and amusingly, evokes Jack Webb's nasal oratory in the television show "Dragnet," Mr. Wilkerson explores how business interests and the police wielded power like a cudgel to prevent ordinary working people from congregating, organizing and speaking up.

When police wielded batons and fired rubber bullets during a mostly peaceful immigration protest at MacArthur Park in 2007, Romero and the city tried to ease tensions by hosting an event.

Repeated studies have shown the police wield their powers, especially the right to ask citizens for identity cards, disproportionately against first- and second-generation immigrants, often from France's former colonies.

They were supported by mounted police also wielding truncheons, and by police with dogs.