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rapping the shoes of the sleeping vagrant with his billy club, the officer told him to move on
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After about a minute and half, Mauldin said, police began to attack the demonstrators with billy clubs.
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Maya Miller, ProPublica, 15 May 2026
Both items, along with a billy club, methamphetamine pipes, and rubber tubing, were found during a search of his RV, according to police.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2025
On that day, civil rights marchers, protesting for voting rights for Black Americans, were attacked by state troopers with tear gas, billy clubs, and horses.
—Kathy Schmitz, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2025
In August 1900, white civilians and white cops rioted as one, unleashing two days of indiscriminate attacks against dozens of Black Hell’s Kitchen residents using lead pipes, guns, knives, fists, and billy clubs in what remains one of the largest explosions of racist violence in city history.
—Erin Quinlan, Architectural Digest, 30 June 2025
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Maya Miller, ProPublica, 15 May 2026
Both items, along with a billy club, methamphetamine pipes, and rubber tubing, were found during a search of his RV, according to police.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2025
On that day, civil rights marchers, protesting for voting rights for Black Americans, were attacked by state troopers with tear gas, billy clubs, and horses.
—Kathy Schmitz, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2025
In August 1900, white civilians and white cops rioted as one, unleashing two days of indiscriminate attacks against dozens of Black Hell’s Kitchen residents using lead pipes, guns, knives, fists, and billy clubs in what remains one of the largest explosions of racist violence in city history.
—Erin Quinlan, Architectural Digest, 30 June 2025
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“Billy club.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/billy%20club. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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