Sentences with phrase «police water cannon»

Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Pegasus Dance: Choreography for Police Water Cannon Trucks, 2007, Video, colour, sound 11 min 28 sec.

One shows a young woman blasted by a police water cannon.

Dutch Eredivise outfit PSV Eindhoven accepted rivals Ajax's nomination to take on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge — and did so in spectacular fashion, by calling in a police water cannon.

Not exact matches

Just as the capital Kuala Lumpur settles down following a fraught rally last week, at which riot police turned water cannons on supporters of the PM, top U.S. media outlets, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and the New York Times (NYT), have reported yet more scandalous allegations about the country's sovereign wealth fund.

Dutch police used dogs and water cannon on Sunday to disperse hundreds of protesters waving Turkish flags outside the consulate in Rotterdam.

French police have made numerous arrests and a number of people have suffered injuries as a result of the clashes, while tear gas and water cannons were used last week to disperse crowds.

As the home secretary said, the idea of the water cannon undermined the idea of policing by consent.

«The timing of this decision is driven by the enhanced risk that the water cannon, currently available to be purchased second hand are sold to another European police authority,» deputy mayor for policing Stephen Greenhalgh wrote in a decision notice published today.

Water cannons are just the tip of the iceberg: Boris's time at City Hall has coincided with a breakdown in policing by consent

All this has done far more to undermine policing by consent in the capital than any misguided decision about water cannons.

Boris Johnson calls on the police to «get medieval» on rioters as he backs proposals for the Metropolitan police to be allowed to use water cannon on future protests.

Midway into the demonstration, pandemonium broke when riot control police fired tear gas and hot water cannons on protesters.

Police pushed back against the rioters, peppering the crowd with tear gas grenades from behind riot shields and hitting the crowd with water cannon.

The Metropolitan police were today urged to use controversial «sound weapons» now that the home secretary has refused a license for water cannon.

The demonstration took place in Douala, where Cameroonian police and gendarmes employed teargas and water cannons to disperse the demonstrators, estimated to have been approximately 1,000 strong.

This peaceful demonstration was turned by the police into a bloody affair — water cannons, tear gas, rubber bullets.

The gathering, who appeared agitated, were challenged by some tens of armed police men who fired gunshots and used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd.

However Association of Chief Police Officers President Sir Hugh Orde described water cannons as «useless» in tackling the riots we experienced last August.

However, police personnel armed to the teeth, including support of armoured personnel carriers, mobilized to the scene and dispersed the protesters with use of tear gas and water cannons.

Sir Paul Stephenson, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, said in an interview two weeks ago that he was not «very keen» on using water cannon.

Police fired tear gas and water cannon at opposition leaders and hundreds of demonstrators at Friday's protest before unrest swept across large parts...

«Independent polling shows that the majority of Londoners support the police having water cannon at their disposal for use in exceptional circumstances,» a spokesperson for the mayor's office of policing and crime said.

On first hearing the idea of police using water cannon, announced this morning by David Cameron, sounds quite attractive.

«My personal view is that I don't think water cannon bought from Germany at great expense are the answer to policing the streets of London,» the deputy prime minister said this morning.

In August 2011, Mercer with his knowledge of Northern Ireland, led the calls for considering the use of water cannon and other robust police tactics to deal with the rioters during the 2011 England riots.

Police were using tear gas and water cannon to try to quell street protests.

Riot control police fired tears gas, sprayed water cannons and mercilessly beat some demonstrators after the police accused them of trying to veer off their approved root during their protest.

- Theresa May has refused to allow t he use of water cannon in England and Wales by police - a year after three of them were bought by the Metropolitan police - a year after three of them were bought by the Metropolitan PolicePolice

Quite a few Conservative MPs are criticising Theresa May's decision not to authorise the use of water cannons, among them former police minister Damian Green.

Approval was given in June 2014 for the Metropolitan Police to purchase three water cannons for London.

Mr Green says «it is not a choice between water cannon and policing by consent, but of using water cannon or some other violent force that the police need in an emergency situation».

On July 14, an estimated 20,000 people, mostly students, too to the streets of Santiago to protest the neoliberal attacks on public education and higher education, only to be met with water cannons and tear gas, as well as police beatings which were caught on dramatic videos.

Modern police horses are not trained in these maneuvers for several reasons; primarily is that it takes years, and police forces are too impatient to wait years for a result when it's easier just to buy another water cannon.

A protest of a planned coal - fired power plant in Bangladesh turned sour on Thursday, when police reportedly confronted marchers with tear gas, rubber bullets, and water cannons in the capital...

On Sunday, police reportedly blasted a group of roughly 400 protestors with rubber bullets, tear gas, and water cannons in sub-freezing temperatures, and over 100 people were arrested in one night.

Corporations that poison our water and our bodies — and partner with private security and police forces to attack peaceful protesters with pepper spray, water cannons and dogs — are the ones who are unleashing terror.

With the park barricaded by riot police, protesters gathered in adjacent Taksim Square, where they were indiscriminately tear - gassed and water - cannoned by police throughout the day.

They were dispersed by police using tear gas and water cannons.