Word: teared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shot-at-a-time marksmanship of a trained rifleman. Laying down a fusillade, Army military police are told, "accomplishes nothing constructive and creates hostility among innocent bystanders," even if none are wounded or killed. A sniper can often be silenced by surrounding his position and forcing him out with tear...
Shoot to Wound. The U.S. Army advises use of fire hoses as a next step, if needed. Tear gas, now widely used as almost the first step by many agencies, is considered a fourth-level tactic by the Army. After that comes the use of fire by selected marksmen, shooting at well-defined targets, and finally volley fire. Even then, such fire should be aimed low to wound, rather than to kill...
...raid on the Panthers was "not professionally planned or properly executed." Police were heavily armed, but without tear gas or portable lights to decrease casualties. Sergeant Daniel Groth, who led the raid, rejected the standard approach of asking the Panthers to come out peacefully before opening fire...
...about as inoffensive as LONG LIVE MOTHER INDIA. Midway through the parade, however, a few marchers began to shout scurrilous slogans calling Moslems thieves. Soon stones, acid-filled light bulbs and Molotov cocktails began flying, though nobody is certain who started the barrage. A force of 600 policemen firing tear gas and then bullets were unable to keep the fighting from spreading...
...that radicals planned a major confrontation on campus, he allowed a "peace brigade" of students to interpose themselves between the radicals and his force, which was protecting the university's R.O.T.C. building. The predictable rocks were hurled at the cops and buffering students, but no police charges or tear gas followed. After a few minor skirmishes, the radicals left in disgust. Said one dejectedly: "Hell, the pigs didn't shoot off ten bucks worth of gas today." A week later, after a tense memorial rally for the Kent State dead, two of Beall's officers strolled through...