Sentences with phrase «of rubber bullets»

Ministers dialled down the calls for an army presence, the use of rubber bullets or water cannons.
Widespread use of rubber bullets appears unlikely.
The development left some of the protesters sustaining various degrees of injuring including reports of rubber bullet wounds.
The Arkham Knight escaped but Bats dealt with the remaining bad guys, uppercutting one of them into the path of a rubber bullet shot from the bat tank.

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As law enforcement officers descended on the town of 21,000 equipped with armored trucks, body armor, camouflage, and assault rifles, and fired tear gas and rubber bullets into crowds of protesters during the last two weeks, civilians and politicians are making call to rein in the weapons arsenals cops have been amassing.
The plaintiffs detailed a series of «militaristic displays of force and weaponry,» including being shot with rubber bullets, tear gassed, beaten and arrested during demonstrations following the shooting of the black teen by a white police officer.
If you were to ask a group of Quakers or Mennonites whether it's OK for police or soldiers to use rubber bullets against rock - throwing children, you wouldn't be surprised if they said, «Absolutely not!»
They were shooting rubber bullets into crowds of people, launching tear gas down quiet neighborhood streets and into homes, and arresting journalists attempting to cover the disgrace as it was unfolding.
The Met is considering using rubber bullets against rioters in London this evening, as officers anticipate another night of «mass disorder».
The introduction of military tanks, rubber bullets, tear gas and Army rifles has been counterproductive.
Some NDC supporters demanding for the release of deputy general secretary Koku Anyidoho have sustained severe injuries after the Police fired rubber bullets to disperse supporters of the National Democratic Congress who had massed up at the Police Headquarters.
This news story, on the Met toying with the idea of using rubber bullets, prompted considerable interest from readers, many of whom wanted much tougher sanctions from New Scotland Yard.
«In Ireland the British Army is responsible for the use of lethal force, shoot - to - kill, the use of rubber and plastic bullets, collusion, internment and torture — all with official impunity.»
He was subsequently picked up and detained a day after the utterance leading to anarchy at the precincts of the National Police Headquarters in Accra where police fired teargas, rubber bullets and sprayed hot water to disperse the crowd.
In his 2016 exhibition Earshot, Abu Hamdan conducted a detailed acoustic analysis of the recorded gunshots associated with the same shooting to determine whether soldiers from the Israeli Defence Force had used rubber bullets, as they claimed, or had broken the law by firing live ammunition.
The case hinged upon an audio - ballistic analysis of the recorded gunshots to determine whether the soldiers had used rubber bullets, as they asserted, or broken the law by firing live ammunition at the two unarmed teenagers.
Raised in San Sebastian, Spain in the years following the Franco dictatorship — a time of political turmoil in which military tanks, tear gas and rubber bullets were common — their formative years were marked by chaos and emotional instability.
The intrusion of raw elements from the real (colored protective film for car glass, rubber bullets, palm leaves, inks cartridge printers or foil) joined this «perceptual approach to reality» dear to the New Realists, as well as the positioning of natural elements and «poor products» compositional elements in Arte Povera.
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.
In this case, the plaintiffs allege that they were protesting outside of Tahoe's Escobal silver mine project in Guatemala when private security personnel shot them with buckshot and rubber bullets.
Then it's time to bite the bullet, put on a pair of rubber gloves and get scrubbing.
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