Supported by foot police, they used truncheons on demonstrators in an apparently indiscriminate manner.

Police dispersed the protestors using truncheons and water hoses, after the demonstrators tried to block traffic.

The police in Frankfurt used truncheons and water cannons to subdue Kurds who were turning over cars.

Police used water-cannon and truncheons against the crowds.

March 22, 2008, dozens of people are arrested and detained in a second day of protests as police use truncheons and tear gass on protestors.

They remember the thugs in leather jackets who used truncheons to break up meetings of dissidents.

On April 4, the police injured more than 150 people when they used truncheons, rubber bullets and tear gas against protesters marching on the palace and chanting antimonarchist slogans.

Television images showed officers using truncheons to beat the demonstrators and spraying pepper gas into their faces.

Witnesses quoted him as telling the crowd that the police had no right to use truncheons so indiscriminately.

Between one and two a.m. of 8 November, a demonstration at Tonypandy Square was dispersed by Cardiff police using truncheons, resulting in casualties on both sides.