Weapons (truncheons, defensive batons and electric shock devices) could only be used as a last resort and the bill specified which weapons could be used in those circumstances.

Soft Power and Hard Batons

The police were holding shields and rods.

Time to bring out the batons and pepper spray.

The peasantry revolted wielding pitchforks and clubs.

They carry batons and swallow any body parasites that they find.

But the bullets and clubs unleashed on Buddhist monks have worked.

In response, the Catalan police used rubber truncheons against the protesters.

Truncheons and CS gas are very rarely used.

And electric stun batons that cause excruciating pain but leave no trace!

As activists have come to expect, the protest was met with tear gas bombs, stun grenades and baton wielding police officers.

A half century later, the water cannons, police dogs, tear gas and nightsticks are still potent symbols.

Fourteen of these people were subsequently beaten brutally by police using truncheons.

In Europe, the combined carrot of northern transfers and the stick of northern reproach did the trick.

Scuffles also broke out later in the day with police using their batons to contain the fighting.

Turkish police used water cannon, tear gas and baton charges to break up Kurdish demonstrations across the country on Sunday and one local politician died in the protests, a sign of rising tension ahead of the Kurdish New Year next week.

It was one of the many interventions in Latin America undertaken by the military forces of the United States.

They should be sent within one week of the date of this document to the Official Records Editing Section, room E.4108, Palais des Nations, Geneva.

It's telling that on Bolotnaya on May 6 the police only had shields and batons, and in Ferguson they immediately deployed rubber bullets and teargas.

As night fell, police began gathering riot control equipment and later used water cannons, smoke bombs, and batons to disperse at least 5000 protesters.

In places, the police response to the activists committed to non violence was disproportionate with immediate massive use of pepper spray and batons.

People returned to the camp in good spirits, even though several were injured by pepper spray and batons.

Our Assault Battalion will not look in the best light Well,well, it happens

Mercenaries are important in a time of global grassroots protest, because it is easier to turn a foreigner s guns or batons against strangers than it is to turn the military or police against fellow citizens.

Five hours into a demonstration many eyewitnesses and international reports have described as peaceful, police cracked down, bringing out water cannons into the streets as warning and using excessive force and batons to disperse it.