21.   Had the police acted earlier, Kinison would not have been free to harass the Hongs, the Asian-American groups say.

22.   He concluded that the police had acted unlawfully and should be prosecuted.

23.   Hasidic residents complained that the police acted rashly in arresting the patrol members and brutally in quelling the protest.

24.   In public comments Friday, Police Commissioner Howard Safir said that the police acted appropriately in quelling the disturbance.

25.   In some raids Wednesday, Israeli and Palestinian police acted together to demonstrate that the crackdown was a joint operation.

26.   Irish police were acting on information provided last week by the overwhelmingly Catholic IRA, which acknowledges the executions but has not apologized for them.

27.   Just after the killing, Gov. Figueroa said police acted in self-defense against heavily-armed peasants.

28.   Kostunica ordered the army, which has been guarding the official residence, to leave, which may make it easier for the police to act.

29.   Kimerer said he believed police acted responsibility in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, where residents were caught up in the tear gas and police violence.

30.   Mayor Rudolph Giuliani initially suggested that the police had acted properly, but backed away from the remark when the autopsy results revealed a more complicated picture.