My colleague Ben Mosley [a Labour council candidate] was hit by a truncheon and I was shoved out of the way by a policeman at one stage.
We have already seen Alfie Meadows require emergency brain surgery after being hit by a truncheon, and I am very worried that without a change in the police's approach it won't be long before more incidents of this nature occur.
I saw truncheons wielded and I saw our people hit.
You have a truncheon or gun, I have a camera.
The estimated total cost of manually watering truncheons in the field ranged from ZAR560 to ZAR4840 per month for truncheons planted 2 m apart (i.e. 2500 truncheons per hectare), and was ZAR59 per month for truncheons planted in micro-basins 20 m apart (i.e. 25 micro-basins per hectare).
You can be hit with a truncheon in the head, I think, and nobody will think you undignified for it.
When I was by the police – and that one time he must have hit me with a truncheon and that, you get what I'm saying, and then with a [riot] shield.
I tried to liaise with senior policemen but their attitude was, 'We're going to arrest you all.' I'm bandaging bleeding heads, but then there's truncheon wounds where you can see the skull and I'm getting nervous of people dying.
As I grabbed the policeman's truncheon to stop him from beating her, another cop hit me in the head repeatedly, like two or three times".
Is a joke that wraps the truncheon of prejudice in a kind of pleasure any different?
