31. Mourners passed uniformed police officers, police barricades, plainclothes security personnel and an electronic metal detector on their way to the service. 32. Near the train station in Antwerp, Belgium, police barricades seal off three narrow streets. 33. Nearly all are afraid of being singled out by drug dealers who they fear will return the moment the police barricades are taken down. 34. Nobody wants to see busloads of gawkers clicking away, but the respectful visitor, camera in hand, has a place at the police barricades. 35. Others said they made it a point to be as near as possible to their new church leader, even if it meant standing behind a police barricade. 36. Others ignored police barricades and drove into flooded low-lying areas. 37. Police barricades were shoved down all along the block. 38. Police barricades seemed to go up everywhere. 39. Police barricades blocked the streets around the court, and the building itself, with access limited to those who had business there, was ringed by helmeted officers. 40. Police barricades blocked off access to hundreds of houses making residents like Wiggins prisoners in their own homes and involuntarily exiling others. |
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