Appearing before a crowd of thousands of Serbs, who were pushed back by police truncheons, he declared, "No one has the right to beat you!"

Bolts slid back and there was Liz, an unfastened dressing-gown over her nightdress, a police truncheon swinging menacingly in her hand.

With the country's foremost opposition leader still in custody after being beaten by police truncheons, the police were wary about more trouble.

The plaintiff there was claiming damages for her son's death brought about, she alleged, by a blow from a police truncheon.

Iron palings were pulled up and used as a defense against the police truncheons, while bottles were mobilized from a passing lorry to serve as missiles.

In the fighting, many rioters were injured by police truncheons and under the hooves of police horses.

But others defend the forgotten - tenants, busboys, people at the wrong end of a police truncheon - and are themselves forgotten.

A few of these are beads, books, furniture, police truncheons, dolls, textiles, ties, sculpture, and especially artwork.

The black gloved hand slowly disentangled a heavy police truncheon from the mangled remains of the Post Office's property.

One protester, philosophy student Alfie Meadows, suffered a blow to the head allegedly from a police truncheon that knocked him unconscious.