Sentences with phrase «riot control police»

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.

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

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But to remedy the situation the commission recommends measures looking to centralized government control (which would only invite more federal interference and also infringe on the citizens» liberties); for example, development, on the federal level, of a plan for coping with disorder, and the creation of a special police force for suppressing riots.

Ministers who returned from their holiday to attend the emergency Cobra meeting are understood to have been livid about the police's failure to secure the streets on Monday night, when whole swathes of London fell into the control of rioting mobs.

In recent weeks, following the riots which began in London and spread across the country, we have heard children described as «feral», «out of control» and a «drain on police time and our penal resources».

Picture it this way: There is a terrible riot, and the police are busy trying to get it under control.

RIALTO, Calif. — Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by police led to the deadly 1992 riots in Los Angeles, was hospitalized with a broken pelvis after he lost control of his sport utility vehicle while weaving through traffic at 100 mph and crashed, police said.

The next thing will be that the police over-report crime because their pensions are invested in riot - control gear manufacturers, or that people only care about Haiti because they have shares in a T - shirt factory there.