Crowd Dispersal Quotes

I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.

I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd.

There is nothing romantic about teargas. Or smoke bombs or rubber bullets or sound cannons.

If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say the revolution is over.

I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.

In preventing a riot and dispersing a crowd, the Crucifixion is an example of cathartic victimization.

When you hear the word tear gas you think, well, your eyes will burn and that's it. But that whole feeling of your whole skin burning, that you can't breathe, you can't inhale, you feel suffocated - it's a very, very terrifying experience.

Back in the early '70s, when Susie and I were first married, we had a little house that we rented, and we used to have parties. People would come, and they wouldn't leave. I used to get so tired. I'd put on the Stanley Brothers, 'Songs for the Good People,' and the house would clear in five minutes. It was not liked; it was alien. It was weird.

A few minutes ago, I had a hard time getting through the lobby because of all the people. After today, that won't be happening.

Unlike in the U.K. or France or America, we've never used water cannon for mass riots dispersal.