11.   A spokesman from the office of Attorney General Dan Lungren said that Mountain View police had acted within their rights.

12.   But Daniel L. Brown, a lawyer for the disabled athletes, says that the police usually act at the behest of the race organizers.

13.   But the police did not act, saying the seizure took place during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month.

14.   But the system allowed the police to act against crime, rather than just react.

15.   But they concluded that the police acted responsibly on the three counts of pandering that led to guilty verdicts because Fleiss offered prostitutes and named her price.

16.   Camouflage combat-uniformed army troops lined the road as the police acted, but the soldiers did not take part.

17.   Davis also addressed criticism that police acted too slowly and did not pursue the killers aggressively enough.

18.   Deputy City Attorney Cory Brente said he recommended the settlement purely to save the cost of fighting the suit in court, not because the police had acted improperly.

19.   FBI spokesman Richard Kolco said such raids are routine, and he believes the Cobb police acted appropriately in choosing to go in.

20.   Gorcyca said he thought the police should have acted sooner.