Activists have accused the Israeli forces of shooting the tear gas canisters directly into crowds, turning the canisters into lethal weapons rather than a means of crowd dispersal.
Special forces, weapons, crowds of cops.
The report found that having St . Louis Countypolice snipers perch on top of tactical vehicles and point their weapons at crowds of peaceful protesters in broad daylight was "inappropriate" and "served only to exacerbate tensions between the protesters and the police".
To prevent it from happening, again, there were discussions of weapons in the crowd, weapons in the home, whether weapons were present on the grounds.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian security forces fired their weapons into crowds of mourners in at least three towns on Saturday as tens of thousands of people buried protesters who were killed a day earlier in the worst bloodshed since the uprising began last month.
Crowds of protesters, mostly women, are diffused across the souq area of the capital in the #ManamaMarch #bahrain twitter.com/alaashehabi/st… — Dr Ala'a Shehabi (@alaashehabi) May 12 , 2012She added that riot police were patrolling the area, "brandishing weapons," as crowds of migrant workers looked on.
"We found the use of weapons of war by officials to control the crowd," Somchai Homlaor, a member of the commission, said at a briefing in Bangkok on Monday.
Witnesses said soldiers fired automatic weapons into a crowd of protesters.
In the confusion that followed, the soldiers pointed their weapons at the crowd of Iraqis trying to explain to them in Arabic what had happened.
In a meeting with the Japanese commander for the region, Saburo Tamura, and the resident of Banyumas, Iwashige, Sudirman and Iskak Cokroadisuryo forced the Japanese to surrender and hand over their weapons while a crowd of armed Indonesians encircled the Japanese camp.
