Police raids on gay bars were routine in the 1960s, but officers quickly lost control of the situation at the Stonewall Inn, and attracted a crowd that was incited to riot.

* August 6 – August 7 – Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City: A riot erupts in Tompkins Square Park when police attempt to enforce a newly passed curfew for the park.

Around 9 p. m. a team from the Special Operations Group of the Tasmania Police had arrived and were eventually able to assist in removing the policemen from the ditch to safety by using the cover of darkness, riot shields and bulletproof jackets.

The policing of riots has been marred by incidents in which police have been accused of instigating or provoking rioting or crowd violence ( see Police riot ); also, while the weapons described above are officially designated as non-lethal, a number of people have died or been injured as a result of their use.

Police, like this Swedish police officer in riot gear at a 2007 demonstration, may use pepper spray to control civilians.

* Police riot

The riot started after a Panamanian flag was torn during conflict between Panamanian students and Canal Zone Police officers, over the right of the Panamanian flag to be flown alongside the U. S. flag.

A plastic version was made for the South African Police Service, and used for riot control.

Eventually the field was cleared by Chicago Police in riot gear and the White Sox were forced to forfeit the second game of the double-header due to the extensive damage done to the playing field.

Eventually, the field was cleared by the Chicago Police in riot gear.

The Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité ( CRS ) () are the riot control forces and general reserve of the French National Police.

Police confrontations with patrons and observers on the street evolved into one of the deadliest and most destructive riots in United States history, lasting five days and surpassing the violence and property destruction of Detroit's 1943 race riot.

The Israel National Police brought in 1, 500 riot police and used tear gar and stun grenades to disperse both sides.

Help was summoned, and the Greater Manchester Police arrived in full riot gear, thus giving Keswick this footnote in police history.

Examples include solo motorcyclist with the Roads Police Unit, fraud investigation with the Economic Crime Unit, response drivers and ' level 2 ' public order ( riot ) duty.

Police in riot gear allowed only four people to enter the county courthouse.

File: BRIMOB vehicle. jpg | Indonesian Police riot control water cannon vehicle.

In addition to King of Kensington, Kensington Market has been the setting for the television series Twitch City, which was filmed above the record store Paradise Bound, and Katts and Dog as well as the street riot scenes of the 1984 comedy Police Academy.

By mid-afternoon, 36 hours after the riot had begun, heavily armed State Police officers accompanied by National Guard servicemen entered the charred remains of the prison.

Rank of Icelandic National Police officers in full riot gear during the 2008 Icelandic lorry driver protests.

In the United Kingdom, usually when large demonstrations take place that are deemed unstable, the territorial police force responsible for the demonstration in that area will usually deploy Police Support Unit personnel who are trained in riot tactics, along with normal divisional officers.

The hockey game and subsequent riot ( due to insulting Canadian beer ) were shot at the Niagara Falls Memorial Arena in Niagara Falls, Ontario, and the actors portraying the police officers ( who eventually join in the riot upon hearing that Canadian beer " sucks ") are wearing authentic Niagara Regional Police uniforms.

The Grateful Dead's performances, on April 2 – 3, 1989, were recorded and later released as a live album, entitled, Download Series Volume 9, as well as sparking a riot by " Dead Heads " on the final day of the concert, an event that was national news and featured by Kurt Loder on MTV News following the arrest of 500 by the Pittsburgh Police.

* 1986 – Car-bombing outside the Russell Street Police Headquarters kills one police officer

New York City 16th Precinct Police Detective Dixon ( Dana Andrews ), who's in trouble with his superiors for his heavy-handed tactics, subjects murder suspect and gambler Ken Paine ( Craig Stevens ) to the third degree-he strikes the drunken Paine in self-defense and accidentally kills him.

In exactly three minutes, go in that phone booth behind you and call Police Headquarters.

In the three decades following 1969, the Army was heavily deployed in Northern Ireland, to support the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( later the Police Service of Northern Ireland ) in their conflict with republican paramilitary groups, called Operation Banner.

It includes the Presidents of the National Congress and the Supreme Court of Justice ; the ministers in charge of National Defence, Government and Police, Foreign Affairs, and Economy and Finance ; the Chief of the Joint Command, and the Chiefs of the three branches of the Armed Forces.

In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone in assassinating Kennedy, firing three shots, a conclusion also reached by prior investigations carried out by the FBI and Dallas Police Department, yet rejected by much of the U. S. public over the years.

During the Second World War, the most powerful men in the SS were the SS and Police Leaders, divided into three levels: Regular Leaders, Higher Leaders, and Supreme Leaders.

The National Guard, FBI and New Mexico State Police successfully pursued Tijerina, who was sentenced to less than three years.

Along with the Canadian Secretary to the Queen, the monarch's entourage includes two ladies-in-waiting, the Canadian Equerry-in-Waiting to the Queen, the Queen's Police Officer, the Duke of Edinburgh's Police Officer, the Queen's Honorary Physician, the Queen's Honorary Dental Surgeon, and the Queen's Honorary Nursing Officer — the latter three being drawn from the Canadian Forces.

He also had a minor solo hit in the United Kingdom with the movie's theme song, " Spread A Little Happiness " ( which appeared on the Brimstone & Treacle soundtrack, along with three new Police tracks, " How Stupid Mister Bates ", " A Kind of Loving ", and " I Burn for You ").

State Police and Police units were first notified of trouble by three police detectives stationed at the Löwenbräukeller.

The headquarters of the RBP is located in the capital city of Thimphu and is divided into three branches directly under the Chief of Police.

( now Blessed ) Jerzy Popiełuszko, who was associated with workers and trade unionists from the Solidarity movement and opposed the Communist regime in Poland, was beaten and murdered by three Security Police officers, and his body was dumped into the Vistula Water Reservoir near Włocławek, from where it was recovered on October 30, 1984.

Twenty former RUC officers were killed by acts of terrorism after leaving the service while two members of the Police Authority and three of its employees were killed between 1972 and 1994.

The British Governor has reserved powers in three areas which are External Affairs, Internal Security and the Police.

For many years there was a British Transport Police police station at Waterloo by the Victory Arch, with a custody suite of three cells.

As a solo musician and member of The Police, Sting has received sixteen Grammy Awards for his work, receiving his first Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1981, three Brit Awards — winning Best British Male in 1994, a Golden Globe, an Emmy Award, and several Oscar nominations for Best Original Song.

In June 1986, Sting reunited with The Police for the last three shows of Amnesty's six-date A Conspiracy of Hope concerts of the US.

By November 1963, Irving was in England when he called the London Metropolitan Police with suspicions he had been the victim of a burglary, perpetrated by three men who had gained access to his Mayfair flat claiming to be General Post Office ( GPO ) engineers.

In 1983, three Christmas shoppers and three Metropolitan Police officers were killed by an IRA car-bomb placed outside Harrods.

It Followed Navajo Nation Police patrolling the western portion of the Navajo Nation, which spans over 27, 000 square miles and into three states.

The Malvern Police Department has lost three officers in the line of duty, all shot to death during the 1930s.

The Broadmoor Police Protection District is governed by a Police Commission, the Broadmoor Police Protection District Board of Police Commissioners, which consists of three residents elected at large every four years.