51.   In order to avoid provocation, officials said, police would store helmets and other riot gear out of sight, in vans and patrol cars.

52.   In this tense atmosphere, the walls of the Old City were surrounded Friday morning by paramilitary border police in riot gear.

53.   Indeed, police SWAT teams clad in black and other officers in riot gear had already massed outside the building.

54.   Israeli police clad in riot gear quickly moved in to break up the demonstration, beating several youths with wooden batons.

55.   Israeli security forces in riot gear lined the streets.

56.   It was not until later that officers appeared wearing full riot gear to reinforce police lines as the protesters left the police station.

57.   Just a year before the high school integrated, police officers in riot gear confronted civil rights marchers in the streets.

58.   Large numbers of Israeli police officers in full riot gear had been mustered in anticipation of trouble after the regular Friday noon prayers.

59.   Last week, police used tear gas and riot gear to break up anti-Robledo demonstrations and road blocks, according to media reports.

60.   Local police and state highway patrolmen wearing riot gear were brought in to stop the violence and blockading of delivery trucks and replacement workers.