A supporter of the opposition parties shouts asking for peace as riot police are block access to the house of the former president Henri Konan Bedie, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Tuesday, November 3, 2020. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)

Riot police clash with protesters during a rally to demand a referendum to remove Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, September 1, 2016. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)

Demonstrators perform a dance in front of riot policemen during a march called by students to request changes in the education system in Santiago, Chile September 5, 2017. (Photo by Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)

A riot policeman punches Greek photojournalist Tatiana Bolari during a demonstration in Athens' Syntagma (Constitution) square October 5, 2011. Police officers attacked several members of the press covering protests, injuring at least two members of the media. (Photo by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)

A riot police blocks a street during a march near a meeting attended by the Secretary-General of Organization of American State Luis Almagro and leaders from various communities in Managua, Nicaragua, December 1, 2016. (Photo by Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters)

Police in riot gear hold back demonstrators against U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump outside the Hyatt hotel where Trump is set to speak at the California GOP convention in Burlingame, California, U.S., April 29, 2016. (Photo by Noah Berger/Reuters)

Forrest Walker, “Police Walk”. Walker describes this shot, taken in 2015 at the last officially permitted Pride parade in Istanbul, as a tense and surreal experience. His focus is on a woman walking calmly in front of a line of riot police, her attitude part defiance and part performance. (Photo by Forrest Walker/All About Photo awards 2025 via The Guardian)

Russian riot policemen beat young PREGNANT female anti-Putin activist during a protest rally against the Presidential inauguration of Vladimir Putin on May 6, 2012 in Moscow, Russia.