Word: nightsticks
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...tragic incidents, Reagan's muscular foreign policy is likely to remain both flexed and relatively flexible. If Reagan has not quite donned the complete uniform of the world's policeman (the costume Presidents have worn for most of the 20th century) he has been swinging the nightstick as though he means it. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett and Gregory H. Wierzynski/ Washington
...YORK--Members of the Chinatown community are charging a police cover-up following the death last month of a New York University (NYU) student who never regained consciousness after he was struck in the head by a nightstick during an argument with two ex-housing policemen...
...companion left the car and argued with the officers, one of whom began struggling with Lin, the newspaper reported. Lin had a knife and the officer had a nightstick with which he beat Lin on the temple, Lin's companion, T.C. Chen, said...
Meier, one of the first to arrive on the scene, said that Mc Duffie had said, "I give up," but some of the police beat him with their nightsticks and flashlights. Marrero then stood over the cyclist, now lying still on the ground, and hit him on the head with his nightstick, testified Meier. Added Veverka: "I got splattered with the blood." Hanlon testified that he himself then drove his squad car over the motor cycle to make it look as though the bike had crashed...
...pushed her down. I yanked her head back and forced open her eyes so he could rinse them with boric acid. She was still screaming and clawing with her arms when the cops came up. "We're helping her," I screamed at them. "She's hurt." With his nightstick in his other hand the National Guardsman pushed at her back. We grabbed her and ran a few feet, and then my face began to sting and my eyes closed. I held my face and stumbled away. I was forced on my back by a medic, who rinsed my eyes, yelling...