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  • Temporary fencing installed to delineate the seating/standing areas for street fans were now missiles directed at Vancouver police officers, including the experienced crowd-control unit.

    Georgialee Lang: Vancouver's Shame Georgialee Lang 2011

  • Temporary fencing installed to delineate the seating/standing areas for street fans were now missiles directed at Vancouver police officers, including the experienced crowd-control unit.

    Georgialee Lang: Vancouver's Shame Georgialee Lang 2011

  • Temporary fencing installed to delineate the seating/standing areas for street fans were now missiles directed at Vancouver police officers, including the experienced crowd-control unit.

    Georgialee Lang: Vancouver's Shame Georgialee Lang 2011

  • "Other than firing initial warning shots, the Israel Defense Forces did not use conventional crowd-control methods or any other method than lethal weapons against the demonstrators," the report said.

    U.N. Slams Israel for Lethal Reply to Protesters Along Lebanese Border Joe Lauria 2011

  • If you have objection to how the police treat you in this country, I suggest you jump on a plane to America, South Africa, any South American country, Spain, France, Korea or in fact any other country where the police are considerably less restrained than ours when someone spout abuses/throw liquids juice at them there in a pressured crowd-control situation.

    G20 police assault verdict SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • Temporary fencing installed to delineate the seating/standing areas for street fans were now missiles directed at Vancouver police officers, including the experienced crowd-control unit.

    Georgialee Lang: Vancouver's Shame Georgialee Lang 2011

  • Shlomo Vaknin, security chief of the Yesha Council, the main settler organization, said the settlers aren't equipped with nonlethal crowd-control weapons.

    Grappling With Protests, Israel Seeks to Limit Use of Force Joshua Mitnick 2011

  • *“With a good deal of firmness and shoving, the police could have pushed the people back and cleared the street, but had they done so there was the possibility of creating an unpleasant incident, and this was not the time or place for that,” Police Chief Herbert Jenkins would write later of the on-the-fly crowd-control tactic.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • The Defense Ministry says it is spending tens of millions of dollars on stink bombs, water cannon, stun grenades, tear-gas dispensers, high-frequency speaker systems and other nonlethal crowd-control weapons.

    Grappling With Protests, Israel Seeks to Limit Use of Force Joshua Mitnick 2011

  • *“With a good deal of firmness and shoving, the police could have pushed the people back and cleared the street, but had they done so there was the possibility of creating an unpleasant incident, and this was not the time or place for that,” Police Chief Herbert Jenkins would write later of the on-the-fly crowd-control tactic.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

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