The dual-use weapon--which looks somewhat like a
billy club when extended--"bridges the gap" between a baton and a Taser, Pearson said.
When I was a kid, my grandmother gave me a toy cop kit--cap pistol, badge,
billy club, and handcuffs.
Stockert had a shotgun, a rifle, ammunition, a 12-inch machete and a
billy club in his truck.
Lewis, 75, was clobbered across the head with a
billy club and suffered a skull fracture.
They were the "Frank Rizzo years"-- the notorious "tough cop" who was remembered for wearing a
billy club tucked into his tuxedo cummerbund.
Allardyce serves up football by
billy club. It is sometimes effective but never pretty.
Italian newspaper (http://video.repubblica.it/dossier/protesta-studenti-autunno-2012/roma-manganellate-in-faccia-a-un-manifestante/110783/109171) La Repubblica posted a video showing a riot policeman hitting a protester in the face with a
billy club while the man is lying unarmed on the floor, during the anti-austerity protests Rome.
In 2009 New York finally overthrew the nearly 40-year-old Rockefeller drug laws, a grotesque set of mandatory minimum sentencing rules that the libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard, back in 1979, called "a fiasco" and "the epitome of the belief in treating a social or medical problem with jail and the
billy club." Months after New York acted, Rhode Island abandoned its drug-related mandatory minimums.
I started hanging on the glass with a
Billy club, which startled him a bit.
q Bradford, Rio's DISCHARGE + Certified +
Billy ClubWe see police scare people, and on a good day, we find an officer who will play whiffleball with his
billy club. We rehab abandoned houses.
They're standing, "these seven faces of Deep South apartheid," around the hood of a squad car, and the handsome one in the middle--head of the state sheriffs' association, cigarette between his grinning teeth--is taking a practice swing with a
billy club to the amusement and grim appreciation of his colleagues.