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  • These included repeated punchings, kickings, beatings with a baseball bat and truncheon, being urinated on and threatened with a syringe and blowtorch.
  • One policeman armed with persuasive reasoning and commonsense is worth six others with truncheons drawn and shouting abuse to make their points. Find Shannon « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Outside the wall, commandos beat truncheons against their shields and police dogs barked.
  • One driver was even found with a police truncheon in his car.
  • She carries a small wooden truncheon tucked up her sleeve in case her customers turn violent.
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  • Suddenly a policeman grabbed hold of me, smacked me a few times with his truncheon, and, with a colleague, threw me into a vehicle that the French picturesquely call a panier à salade (or, a basket for drying salad). In Chile, the Lessons of Isolation
  • More like President Kruger than Prince Albert – that's the best I can do for him; and I see him on a chair, in a black frock-coat, not so very high up either; I can manage a cloud or two for him to sit on; and then his hand trailing in the clouds holds a rod, a truncheon is it? Monday or Tuesday
  • He bore in his hand what was called a truncheon, which was a sort of sceptre, very splendidly covered and adorned. Richard I Makers of History
  • The "flics" look as menacing as ever, complete with body armour, truncheons and pistols, even though they are mostly dealing with shambolically intoxicated youths rather than would-be revolutionaries. France's young binge drinkers upset cafe society with their 'British boozing'
  • It tossed a foot-long wooden truncheon onto a table beside a flintlock pistol and flopped down into a chair, snarling all the while.
  • Over 80 police and soldiers used truncheons, tear gas and a water cannon on protestors, including women and children.
  • The potboy at the corner, who is a privileged amateur, as possessing official knowledge of life and having to deal with drunken men occasionally, exchanges confidential communications with the policeman and has the appearance of an impregnable youth, unassailable by truncheons and unconfinable in station-houses. Bleak House
  • Police had considered taking action against David as they said he was carrying an offensive weapon his bendy rubber truncheon.
  • The demonstrators were attacked by the police, who employed tear gas and truncheons and beat and arrested a number of the protesters.
  • The books were not only at the barricades, they were the barricades, behind which the students could both take shelter and push forward; could "transgress" across the police lines while the truncheons fell on the books, not the demonstrators. The Guardian World News
  • But the have-a-go hero was then arrested himself when officers spotted a rusty truncheon he had put in his pocket for self-defence. Archive 2008-06-01
  • Or a guard will put a bucket on your head and whack it with a truncheon.
  • The images of violence did not depict skinhead thugs battling with the police and their truncheons.
  • Alexander Konovalov, whose ministry oversees Parfyonchikov's service, said that in some regions court marshals are used as a "truncheon" against citizens, though he did not elaborate. The Moscow Times
  • The deal was signed while hundreds of police armed with truncheons and riot equipment remained on standby outside the hotel.
  • The only thing that wins with bullies is a lead filled truncheon. Be afraid, be very afraid……. actually, don’t be. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • With sharpened scythes and pitchforks, with pointed staves and heavy truncheons and ironshod clubs, they killed the miserable Germans all day long, and the line of escape was marked along the Beauvoisine road by corpses almost to The Story of Rouen
  • Suddenly a policeman grabbed hold of me, smacked me a few times with his truncheon, and, with a colleague, threw me into a vehicle that the French picturesquely call a panier à salade (or, a basket for drying salad). In Chile, the Lessons of Isolation
  • Police in riot gear and carrying truncheons pushed them back, and several were arrested.
  • Thousands of protestors attempted to march on the US embassy in Beirut, but were beaten back by police using tear gas and truncheons.
  • Although practice varied between regions, apart from a period between 1884 and 1936, British police were allowed little more than a truncheon on routine patrol.
  • Faced with escalating riots, the Italian police unleashed water cannon, plastic bullets and 12-inch truncheons.
  • No great wonder then if we seek to mention to non-believers that they risk an eternity of raging hell-fire with the Devil's truncheon up their jacksie. When a blogger goes to work for a presidential candidate.
  • Unlike the truncheon and its woofter counterpart with the stickie-out handgrip - because not solid, there is no risk of serious head injury. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
  • According to the Bucks Free Press, the local force, Thames Valley, has itself been relieved of a truncheon, "five blue strobe flashing lights", handcuffs valued at £32.69, and a six-foot tall cardboard officer that was stolen from High Wycombe station. Hugh Muir's diary
  • He hunched his shoulders, like a protester about to be truncheoned by Chicago's finest. Brannon's Choice
  • Until 1857, New York City police found truncheons sufficient.
  • Others were said to depict sexual assaults with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube. P2pnet World Headlines – May 29, 2009
  • The man with the truncheon was black, and wore a dark bobble hat and dark jacket.
  • But my friend Dave, who used to operate the Kings Cross CCTV cameras, can vouch that there is still enough drugs and vice going on in the area for the Met to shake a very big truncheon-like stick at.
  • Duke of Marlborough brandishing a truncheon upon a sign-post, surrounded with types and emblems, and canopied with cornucopias that disembogue their stores upon his head; Mercuries reclin'd upon bales of goods; The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860
  • The logic of their own arguments will lead the Green leaders to call for the police truncheon and harsher punishment against anti-nuclear activists.
  • At around 6pm I received the following text from my friend: "Just off to cast my vote with the memory of proud miners being truncheoned by Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
  • The logic of their own arguments will lead the Green leaders to call for the police truncheon and harsher punishment against anti-nuclear activists.
  • And he halted, in unfeigned respect for the burly and impressive figure, garbed in blue and brass, helmeted and truncheoned, bull's-eye shining on breast like the The Black Bag
  • There is no excuse for a masked policemen to use a truncheon to hit in anger a man who is not facing him and has his hands in his pockets. Ooooh….. I didn’t know that! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • There they confronted the police; a police truncheon injured one teacher.
  • A charge of possession of a wooden truncheon as an offensive weapon on the A61 Leeds Road at Pannal on the same day was dropped.
  • He was taken to a police station where he was beaten with truncheons, punched and kicked.
  • The police used truncheons and tear gas, while paramilitary groups of religious fanatics attacked the protesters, including women, with metal chains.
  • She carries a small wooden truncheon tucked up her sleeve in case her customers turn violent.
  • They were beaten back by riot police with truncheons.
  • And as the CRS popped their tear gas and beat their truncheons on their Perspex shields, suddenly, over and above the squeals and yells, came the jolly voice of the PA announcer thanking us all for coming and making this such a joyful and happy occasion on what, he reminded us, was Fifa Fair Play Day. Sepp Blatter plays game of follow the lederhosen | Harry Pearson
  • There was one good moment at Copenhagen, though: some seriously professional truncheon work by Danish Plod on the smellies. Archive 2009-12-01
  • Then sir Matthew strake asunder the spear with his sword; and when sir James Lindsay saw how he had lost his spear, he cast away the truncheon and lighted afoot, and took a little battle-axe that he carried at his back and handled it with his one hand quickly and deliverly, in the which feat Scots be well expert, and then he set at sir Matthew and he defended himself properly. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
  • While the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words always retain their power.
  • The potboy at the corner, who is a privileged amateur, as possessing official knowledge of life and having to deal with drunken men occasionally, exchanges confidential communications with the policeman and has the appearance of an impregnable youth, unassailable by truncheons and unconfinable in station – houses. Bleak House
  • The lead filled truncheon is useful but most of us do not have that. Be afraid, be very afraid……. actually, don’t be. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Some of the prisoners were beaten about the head with rubber truncheons.
  • Remember that wise old saying, friends: The Truncheon is oft times the hobnobber of Commerce! Shakesville
  • Ten policemen, waving truncheons a little too enthusiastically, have closed the road so that the dialogue can be recorded.
  • Dave not only catches him - he beats the crap out of him with a truncheon, an act that is caught on tape a la Rodney King. Marshall Fine: Movie review: Rampart
  • In France in May 1968, the gendarmerie and the police used water cannon, tear gas and truncheons to put down three-week-long Sorbonne riots, injuring nearly 400 persons.
  • Hari heard him beating at the bushes with his truncheon and then he opened the door to the workshop.
  • Armed with truncheons and tear gas, police repeatedly attacked the 200,000 demonstrators who had come from all over the world to protest the summit proceedings.
  • According to the organisers of the meeting, police employed truncheons and pepper spray in the course of their intervention.
  • Police had considered taking action against David as they said he was carrying an offensive weapon his bendy rubber truncheon.
  • The Freudian truncheon is brandished almost to absurdity when Pyramidhead traps Rose and Cybil in an elevator and begins stabbing his really long blade between the elevator doors, trying to run them through. Silent Hill
  • hairbrush," the "lemon bomb," the "cricket ball," and the "policeman's truncheon" were the most important of these, all of them so-called because of their resemblance to the articles for which they were named. Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army
  • Police used truncheons to beat them back, but no major injuries were reported.
  • Rowan and Mayne limited constables' weapons to the truncheon, carried concealed until 1863.
  • Thus, two sweet pink chops from a rack of lamb, all yielding and fleshy with a flavour that's gone in a glug of wine, sit with a dark truncheon of slow-cooked neck, wintry and brown, whose flavour lingers, contextualising the chops.
  • Faced with escalating riots, the Italian police unleashed water cannon, plastic bullets and 12-inch truncheons.
  • Special units of the police attacked pickets and demonstrators with water cannon and truncheons.
  • Sir, he is rash, and very sudden in choler, and haply with his truncheon may strike at you: provoke him, that he may; for even out of that will I cause these of Cyprus to mutiny, whose qualification shall come into no true taste again but by the displanting of Cassio. Othello
  • The potboy at the corner, who is a privileged amateur, as possessing official knowledge of life and having to deal with drunken men occasionally, exchanges confidential communications with the policeman and has the appearance of an impregnable youth, unassailable by truncheons and unconfinable in station – houses. Bleak House
  • Fear, however, is an entirely normal reaction, especially when smoke is thick, truncheons are swinging and the air unbreathable.

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