Sentences with phrase «police barricades»

Police barricades refer to physical barriers that are constructed or set up by the police to control or restrict access to a certain area. These barricades are typically made of fences, metal, or other materials and are used to maintain order, enhance safety, and prevent unauthorized entry or disruption. Full definition
Behind police barricades were thousands of observers, some carrying signs criticizing President Barack Obama's policy speech last month on the Israeli - Palestinian conflict.
They stood on the other side of police barricades and chanted, «Close Rikers down!»
Wall hangings share a room with sound art, gangly orange creatures share a common area with visitors, architectural models blend into photographs of glass architecture, police barricades become mixed - media paintings.
The city removed the metal police barricades from Wall Street Wednesday as Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson dined at a struggling Wall Street Cafe that said it had to lay off workers because of the lockdown.
To get to the U.S. Attorney's office, a visitor must wind his way through a phalanx of blue police barricades, stop by a kiosk manned by a U.S. marshal, enter a giant white tent with police and metal detectors, and proceed to a bulletproof visitors desk, replete with armed guards.
Outside the building, a blocklong police barricade on Perry Street, from Illinois to Mississippi streets was set up, with Buffalo police officers on duty.
Hundreds of other union members protested within police barricades.
When we drove into town to see them, we were forced to turn back by police barricades.
Among obsidian stones, an upturned police barricade, a beat - up refrigerator, and cow vertebrae, the detail that lingers longest in Jimmie Durham's retrospective, on view at the Hammer Museum, is Durham's absence.
Artist uses everyday objects such as police barricades, tabloid photographs, and construction materials to explore the intersection between the fantasy and reality of American identity.
«I'm finished with animals,» says Durham, who employed a number of animal parts — even a human skull, to the dismay of Meredith and her cohorts — in his early Native - focused works featuring police barricades and semiprecious stones.
Violent agitators whom the French call «the autonomous» targeted one police barricade after another during an otherwise peaceful demonstration by climate activists.
Police barricade protesters to separate the public from those in the tar sands sit - in on August 20th, 2011 in Washington, DC.
In Woolard's work, police barricades become beds; money is erased in public; a clock ticks for 99 years; public seats attach to stop sign posts; café visitors use local currency; office ceilings hold covert messages; 10,000 students attend classes by paying teachers with barter items; and statements about arts graduates are read on museum plaques.
Turning around and accelerating rapidly, Dzhokhar drove straight at the officers, his brother, and the police barricade.
Trump has continued to spend most of his time in Trump Tower since winning the presidential election, which has prompted a massive security effort around the luxury building with bomb - sniffing dogs, security checkpoints and police barricades.
You can surrender to the cops and serve time, or, man, you can jack that armored truck, ram it through the police barricade, and make a getaway.
The family wasn't reunited for several hours because the other sons got stuck behind a police barricade while officers engaged in a standoff with a suspect.
And when he does emerge for a bike ride, or basket of fried fish, it's handshakes at a distance, through a rope line or police barricades — and with the suspicious glare of the secret service and state police.
Most sound like they are coming from the Lazio camp on the far side of the police barricade, which establishes a no man's land of a few hundred feet between the two camps.
We left an extra hour early but still wound up late, because we got off at the wrong exit, landed in the worst neighborhood of all time, and got caught behind a police barricade.
After weeks of controversy, with withdrawals by corporate sponsors and several state and city officials over the plans to honor a guest condemned by many as a former bomb - maker, the Puerto Rican Day Parade rolled up Fifth Avenue without discord or disruption, its numbers thinner than in years past on both sides of the police barricades.
A police barricade had been set up on the sidewalk.
It's unclear what kind of financial impact the police barricades and lane closures on Fifth Avenue are having on business for the stores located near Trump Tower, but de Blasio said the city will be working with the Midtown business community on the problem, which he hoped would be offset by the holiday season, when New York City expects to receive 60 million tourists.
The police barricades meant to deter Occupy Wall Street protesters and that led the struggling Milk Street Cafe to fire 21 staff members were back up again Wednesday night.
Last week, the police barricaded the Unity fountain in Abuja and physically violated the fundamental rights of non-violent members of the Islamic movement of Nigeria who are demonstrating against the continuous illegal detention of their leader Sheikh Ibrahim Zaczacky.
MANHATTAN — The police barricades that were meant to contain Occupy Wall Street protesters but wound up decimating the business of a Wall Street cafe were back up again Wednesday night — just hours after they were taken down.
Police barricaded off a large portion of the square, and set two police lines in front of the police station there.
Hiked across the park (family dog in tow) to see the Macy's parade balloons inflating, where we (OK, the cute dog) sweet - talked our way through a police barricade to get up close and personal.
Now that we've told you what's filming where, instead of just watching the action from behind the police barricades, perhaps you'd like to be in front of the cameras.
Organized by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association to protest the internment of hundreds of rebels without trial, the parade was originally supposed to wind its way through the Bogside, Derry's Irish Catholic enclave (and a hotbed of anti-Unionist activity), straight through a police barricade and boldly end on the steps of the Guildhall, the venerable symbol of Protestant rule in Derry.
The fans stood behind the police barricades around Sacred Heart Church, where a scene from Norman Jewison's «F.I.S.T», was going to be shot later that day.
With a maze of one - way streets and police barricades, the Quarter is a nightmarish place to drive.
And when my father, the Nigger Whisperer - that beatific smile splashed across his face - eased his way past the police barricade, put a tweed - jacketed arm around the broken - down drug dealer, and spoke some whispered profundity into his ear, Kilo G blinked blankly like a stage - show volunteer struck dumb by an Indian casino hypnotist, then calmly handed over his gun and the keys to his heart.
The police barricaded the piece after a protestor attempted to climb the piece, effectively detaching it from the rest of the politically activated space.
Through economical and invasive means, the artist transforms urban detritus such as found cardboard, police barricades, and carpet remnants into bunker - like structures that retain a semblance of solidity yet convey a feeling of melancholy and gloom.
Installation view of Barricade to Bed (for exchange café), 2013, police barricade, plumbing straps, hardware, 2 × 6 douglas fir cut off, maple wood dowel, tennis balls, foam, fabric, open access kit, prison abolitionist «zines, 16 × 43 × 96 inches.
The artist has taken common forms such as a picnic table, police barricade, chair, and bookshelf and has fully deconstructed the forms into hundreds of small pieces of wood.
Surrounding stacks of sandbags, police barricades ---- Ward: And confetti.
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