Riot policemen beat anti-Salinas protesters with clubs and rifle butts at the main downtown square this afternoon.

Over the next day and half the protests grew and the police "started beating protesters, and firing gas," he said.

The same day, she watched television videotape of the police beating protesters.

In October 1968 a peaceful civil rights march in Derry turned violent as police brutally beat protesters.

The police often responded to the protests violently, not only using water cannons and tear gas, but also beating protesters and firing live ammunition.

It was a strange juxtaposition, almost as though a movie were being shot nearby, with the police beating protesters and dragging them off to jail.

One diplomat said he had seen the police beat protesters after they had fallen.

In response, the police fired tear-gas grenades and beat protesters with truncheons and rifle butts.

No. 3 is the nation's top police official, whose troops have been beating protesters with batons.

At a news conference, he said that the commandant of paramilitary forces who beat protesters on Nov. 17 would be disciplined.