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riot squad
noun
- a group of police officers having special training and equipment for quelling riots and other public disturbances.
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Origin of riot squad1
Example Sentences
So just before the start of the 2023 season Alesana, president of the LA Riot Squad, joined with three of the team’s other main supporters groups to organize a boycott, promising to stay away from games until changes in the front office were made.
One month after Mahsa Amini’s death, Kosar was shot at in her genital area by a riot squad officer with a paintball gun.
Riot Squad, one of four supporter groups that agreed to not to attend home games as long as Chris Klein remained the team’s president.
But they have been regularly accused of arbitrarily beating people, drawing comparisons with “Les Voltigeurs,” a motorcycle riot squad that was disbanded in 1986 after three of its members beat a French-Algerian student to death.
Petro has promised to reform or even dismantle the police riot squad, which is implicated anti-government protest deaths last year.
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