Sentences with phrase «peaceful protesters»

We are peaceful protesters attend town meetings, write letters to the editor of papers, hold protests and organize petition drives.

Keep in mind: ordinary peaceful protesters have nothing to fear about this law.

Light says the calls to demilitarize police will not impact his sales, but regardless he is not proud of the way Lenco's vehicles are being associated with police aggression against peaceful protesters.

To remember that, less than 30 years before Gandhi secured his country's independence, it was British trigger - fingers that left hundreds of peaceful protesters dead in Amritsar's Jallianwala Bagh garden, yet Mahatma Gandhi never wavered from his path of non-violence.

Although they might otherwise suggest rescue, they became an amblem of violent suppression after police turned them on peaceful protesters during the Civil Rights movement.

Law enforcement and private security officers armed with rubber bullets, water cannons, and dogs have clashed with peaceful protesters at the reservation in North Dakota, where Native demonstrators known as water protectors have sought to delay, and ultimately redirect or derail, construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is currently slated to run near the reservation.

Five people have so far been arrested in bitter battle, with Nick Clegg criticising the police for detaining peaceful protesters

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.

Peaceful protesters flocked to the streets in Chicago.

And then in Dallas, five police officers killed while serving and protecting peaceful protesters targeted because they were police.

Don't lie to yourself, Hamas are killers, not peaceful protesters

During the visit, his security detail violently kicked and stomped several peaceful protesters.

For years we have been turning a blind eye to these idiots while they hijack demos and it will keep happening until legitimate peaceful protesters stand up to the idiots, co operate with the police and route out the troublemakers.

Following that logic, (long - term) kettling of peaceful protesters alongside passively provocative or actively violent protesters would be counterproductive for the police themselves, if they wanted to keep the peace and prevent harm.

peaceful protesters who contributed to the event being canceled.

By that point I had spent at least two hours rammed in with other peaceful protesters, bursting for the loo and battling against a resurgence of a phobia of being trapped in tight crowds.»

«For an elected official to utilize a police agency to threaten peaceful protesters merely because they represent a political inconvenience is an egregious abuse of power,» Valle wrote.

They were arrested by state police, but the trespassing violations were thrown out in court, when the Albany County District Attorney continued a policy not to prosecute peaceful protesters.

Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings agreed, but his police officers resisted, fearing a flurry of trespass citations against otherwise peaceful protesters would hurt community relations.

Libya's invite was cancelled over its regime killing peaceful protesters.

Ugomuoh added that the trailers would also be deployed to escort peaceful protesters and processions adding that the k9 sniffers had been trained to detect IEDs, narcotics, arms and ammunitions and crime prevention and detection.

In 2017, that can mean everything from peaceful protesters to ordinary citizens crossing U.S. borders.

Here, he uses old fire hoses to reference police violence against peaceful protesters.

Days later, television cameras captured policemen turning fire hoses and attack dogs on peaceful protesters.

This act of self - sacrifice sparked an uprising in the Arab world which has brought down autocrats who had rules for decades, but has also seen brutal repression of peaceful protesters.

He wrote: «In scenes you would expect to see in Putin's Russia, rather than a Sheffield suburb, council contractors and police descended on Rustlings Road under the cover of darkness, dragged people out of bed to move their cars and detained peaceful protesters — all to chop down eight trees.»

Much of the news media also played the «we - all - look - alike» game as they rhetorically conflated «peaceful protesters» with «rioters.»

The peaceful protesters in Ferguson seem to have been motivated by the violation of their life - affirming sensibilities, and rightfully so.

Trouble had started yesterday when people loyal to President Hosni Mubarak mounted orchestrated attacks against the peaceful protesters, beating them, throwing rocks and petrol bombs, and shooting into the crowds.

Last year, Thomas helped to found For Freedoms, a «super PAC» run by artists that notably created a controversial billboard near Selma, Alabama, that showed a photo of state troopers about to descend on peaceful protesters.

Demonstrations took place last weekend across the country, and Amnesty International says dozens of peaceful protesters were shot dead.

In 1963 the Pop painter produced a group of silkscreen images made from Associated Press photographer Charles Moore's pictures of young black men, women and children — peaceful protesters — being assaulted by fire - hoses and police attack dogs on the streets of Marshall's hometown.

Repressive police tactics against the peaceful protesters only swelled their numbers and four weeks later the movement has spread across the globe with over 1000 demonstrations taking place on 15th October.

Police increasingly have to deal with masked thugs, mountains of toxic trash, murder threats and even the possibility of improvised bombs hidden in «peaceful protesters» encampments.

By Thursday evening, the park was full of peaceful protesters, gaily picnicking into the night.

If you plan to protest, or are curious about the First Amendment, this guide will help you to know your rights as a peaceful protester.

The next time New York City police decide to engage in mass arrests of peaceful protesters, they may want to engage in a cost - benefit analysis.

By using injunctions and lawsuits against peaceful protesters, have the company and a complicit government opened the door to more radical resistance?

11:30 We get an update from David Mivasair of the Justin Trudeau Brigade on Kinder Morgan's injunction against peaceful protesters.

Within a span of 36 hours, over 1,000 people — peaceful protesters, journalists, human rights monitors and downtown residents — were arrested and placed in detention.

Targets of SLAPPs in various parts of North America have been local residents, neighbourhood associations, municipal governments, and peaceful protesters, who have been sued for acts such as reporting bylaw violations, speaking at municipal meetings or even just picketing and circulating petitions.