Baton charge
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baton-charge-162-2520662
title:
Baton charge
text:
A baton charge is a coordinated tactic for dispersing crowds of people, usually used by police, paramilitary or military in response to public disorder. In the Indian subcontinent, a long bamboo stick, called lathi in Hindi, Nepali and Urdu, is used for crowd control, and the expression lathi charge commonly employed to describe the action. The tactic involves police officers charging at a crowd of people with batons and in some cases riot shields. They run at the crowd hitting people with their
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Police tactic for crowd dispersion
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baton_charge
date created:
2006-01-10T10:05:56Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T15:06:44Z
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