By the time the city center started to fill with workers, those cordons, and the police on foot and in the helicopters that circled overhead, were the only immediately visible signs that all was not normal.
Then our units, YPG, Asayish, al-Sanaddid, and YPJ started to besiege the city, we established a security cordon around Hasakah and besieged IS inside the city, so nobody could flee.
The army has reportedly set up a security cordon around the blast site and started to investigate the circumstances of the attack.
I started to recognize it as a part of my makeup, but one I could cordon off with safety tape reading: "work in progress".
I started to recognise it as a part of my make-up, but one I could cordon off with safety tape reading: "work in progress".
A woman named Juana, who waited near the police cordon and lives just a couple blocks away, arrived as a group started to assemble.
As traffic started to resume in the early hours of Tuesday morning, many crossroads remained blocked by police and protesters' cordons and fires continued burning.
Stokes marks the reprieve with a two out to the mid-wicket boundary and I'm starting to think the slips cordon was far too deep there.
It becomes clear that this event has gone from being a protest to a farce the growing crowd transplanting it from Paris '68 to Punch and Judy at Blackpool Pier, with the performer in this chaotic stage show starting to play to his cordoned-off onlookers by pacing around and goading the crowd.
More visibly, this shift means that the familiar security architecture of airports and international borders – checkpoints, scanners, ID cars, cordons, security zones – start to materialise in the hearts of cities.
