Sentences with phrase «with truncheons»
It's a worrying reminder that fascism, when it comes, does not always come with truncheons and jackboots.
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The Special Intervention Brigade (BIR) aggressed demonstrators with truncheons, high power water hoses (water cannons), and mass arrests.
Social media footage appeared to show the police fire rubber bullets at potential voters and attack them with truncheons.
Then they released tear gas and hit us with truncheons,» Amirah Lidasan, one of the leaders of the protest, told AFP.
Determined for the club to remain neutral, Bartomeu allowed a scheduled match to go ahead on the referendum day, at the very moment when Spanish police were storming polling stations and beating voters with truncheons.
Not exact matches
The staging of the King's speech, with a picture of the king Carlos III ---- who prohibited the education and publication of books in Catalan in the 18th Century ---- holding a truncheon behind him, was highly symbolic and revealing.
The historical references give the play extra bite, with more than a little shade of Blair Peach - the protestor killed by a police truncheon - in one of the characters.
«I can certainly sympathise with chief constables who might prefer the microphone to the truncheon and see why ministers love the feel of a bullet proof vest.
The LEGO description also zooms in on Black Widow and what's translated as her «truncheons,» which would match up with the badass staff weapon we've seen Natasha carrying in some promotions.
«And that's justice in former times,» he said, noticing that I was looking above the hearth, where there was a display of antique truncheons arranged in declining size, like pan pipes, from an enormous wooden pole, two and a half feet long, to a short and brutal stub with a thick brass ferrule.
These NPCs are found relaxing in their own camps, where you can approach with a big truncheon, knock them unconscious, bind them with a rope and drag them back to your base.
Drug lords and terrorists clash with police badges and truncheons in his formally and visually reduced, mostly black and white painting, his meticulously constructed sculptures, photographs, videos, flags and flyers.