Such a condition would have legitimized the protesters as an internationally recognized party in talks.
Internationally, the attack on protesters was condemned by Barack Obama and Human Rights Watch.
- Nearly two years have passed since photographs and footage of campus cop John Pike blithely pepper-spraying seated Occupy protesters at the University of California Davis made him internationally famous.
One protester, Hillary Jones, said: "So many people internationally and domestically could have done with the help of a strong lady like that, but instead she turned her back on us and she looked after the rich and the powerful.
Internationally, Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on 15 February, called the government of Bahrain to stop what she called "the excessive use of force" against protesters and to release protest-related prisoners.
As images of brutality against peaceful protesters and unjust killings circulated both nationally and internationally, pressure mounted for the U.S. to respond.
The move infuriated anti-apartheid protesters, who felt it "opened the gate for white South Africans" to compete internationally and camped noisily outside her house.
Deng became internationally famous in July 2011 after leaping to block an attack by protester Jonathan May-Bowles, who threw a pie at her husband during a British parliamentary committee hearing into the News International phone-hacking scandal.
Mr. Vitale, the sociology professor who also consults police departments in the United States and internationally, said that "less-lethal" projectiles were intended and used to create space between a police barricade and a crowd of violent protesters.
