Police in riot gear responded with "blast ball" grenades that release smoke laced with pepper spray.

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Dozens of people were arrested after police in riot gear were deployed ahead of a football match in Nuneaton.

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Police in riot gear then moved into the park, evicting hundreds of protesters.

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What the world is seeing is Toronto as an armed camp with a fenced-off no-go zone and hundreds of police in riot gear.

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"That's my building, " she said, pointing to an office block surrounded by a line of a mounted police and another line of police in riot gear.

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Police in riot gear charged the youths, pushing them back on to the Place de l'Opera where the crowds were gathering, but the situation remained volatile.

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But the police - in full riot gear - do not agree and are ringing the metal barriers that are blocking off the park.

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At intervals along the barricaded roads stood phalanxes of police and more militia in riot gear, including batons and shields.

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Scores of police and state troopers, some in riot gear, tried to clear the streets, and some officers used pepper spray to disperse demonstrators.

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There were security frogmen on boats in the Seine, there were helicopters whirring overhead, and the streets were lined with hundreds of police vans, in body armor and with riot shields and other riot gear.

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