Sentences with phrase «police blockades»

At the moment police blockaded demonstrators in the square, there was no violence whatsoever.

SOUTH AFRICAN NEWSWOMAN: The crowds approaching the gates of Karura are each being met by a huge police blockade.

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Several thousand people protested in Warsaw and other cities after police broke up a blockade of the entrances to parliament in the early hours of Saturday.

Pink also plans on working with state police to put up fencing and additional blockades along Riverview Road.

One of the blockaded measures is Lancman's proposal to illegalize the police chokehold, the maneuver Officer Daniel Pantaleo used to fatal effect on Garner.

Rather than take a jaded view of the situation, it is far better to assume that the bookstores would have been damaged by looters just for the thrill of it and the police were standing blockade because books — in any form — are a vital part of society.

Daryl Hannah gets arrested, 50 protesters form a blockade, and the police haul off journalists.

The blockade included a peaceful gathering at the entrance of the summit, which was met by tear - gas from police, a large human - chain surrounding the summit, theatre, concerts and a mass «die - in».

The blockade ultimately ended after just two months, both because it was completely illegal and on account of bad PR — a movie director named John Langan sued the police department when he was mistakenly stopped at the border.

In 1936, the Los Angeles Police Department set up a «bum blockade,» forcing new arrivals with «no visible means of support» to turn around and go home.