Cadets of Tamilnadu Police perform an acrobatic stunt during a full dress rehearsal for the upcoming Republic Day Parade in Chennai on January 24, 2021. (Photo by Arun Sankar/Profimedia/AFP Photo)

Police officers wield their batons against activists from various student unions during a protest march demanding jobs and better education facilities, in Kolkata, India, February 11, 2021. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)

Russian police detain a protester at a demonstration against President Vladimir Putin in St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, May 5, 2018. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)

Ayah, 37, weeps as she is embraced by a police officer during a demonstration against the Danish face veil ban in Copenhagen, Denmark, August 1, 2018. (Photo by Andrew Kelly/Reuters)

An anti-extradition bill protester throws a stone at a police station in Tseung Kwan O residential district, in Hong Kong, China, August 4, 2019. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

Women members of the national police take part in a parade during a graduation ceremony in Bogota, Colombia on November 7, 2019. (Photo by Juan Barreto/AFP Photo)

An assault at 125th Street and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Harlem, after a basketball game on August 9, 2020. Police vehicles responded but no officers intervened. (Photo by G.N.Miller/The New York Post)

Armed police officers and soldiers strengthen their training in seawater in Fangchenggang City, Guangxi Province, China on July 24, 2023. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)