1.   Helmeted officers charged, swinging their staves at the stands of fruit sellers.

2.   Local television stations have broadcast images of helmeted officers practicing with riot batons while wearing gas masks.

3.   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.

4.   Helmeted officers with bulletproof vests waited Saturday in a van near the creamy white box-shaped consulate building.

5.   Helmeted officers fired tear gas to disperse dozens of looters in a central Buenos Aires neighborhood.

6.   Helmeted officers with bulletproof vests were added Saturday.

7.   Inside, immigrants and their supporters screamed as oak pews they had piled against the door gave way to the crush of helmeted officers.

8.   On the way, helmeted officers carrying batons stood two-deep as activists shouting in bullhorns and holding banners in Spanish and English moved across downtown.

9.   The Televisa TV network showed helmeted officers shoving protesters to the ground and dozens of people running down the highway after tear gas canisters were set off.