headlock

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• A man who drew a gun and put a protester in a headlock at a “Back The Blue” rally during the peak of police-brutality protests last year openly displayed anti-fascist sympathies, according to a confidential police bulletin circulated months later.

• There, in what critics described as an unequal application of justice, a teenager was arrested for taunting police with a doughnut, while a pro-police demonstrator was not arrested after putting a man in a headlock and drawing a gun.

• Matt Lincoln, the man who was placed in a headlock, told The Daily Beast the attack came as a shock.

• The last one jumped on me, trying to get me in a headlock, but I wriggled out of it and decked him too.

• Sharpton spoke of the moment they had all seen in the video when Pantaleo kept Garner in a headlock despite his pleas.

• I ended up bringing him out in a headlock to find the police.

• Judging by the success of Duck Dynasty, the decades-long entertainment industry liberalism headlock might be broken.

• Moments later, she said, McCullough ran inside and put Karger in a headlock.

• Headlock, Elder Stephen,—complains of camp murmuring—reproved, 119.

• Like a flash he whirled on Allerdyce and grabbed a headlock.

• Stan was not sure that he could hold the headlock he had slid down into a strangle grip.