handcuff

Example Sentences

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These steps wouldn’t handcuff discretion; it would discipline it.

From Barron's

Social media footage showed a large armed police response, fire engines and an officer appearing to search a handcuffed individual.

From BBC

It featured a montage of clips appearing to show ICE officers chasing down, tackling and handcuffing people in what looks to be the city of Chicago.

From Los Angeles Times

In another clip, federal agents detained an elderly man sitting on the sidewalk near a liquor store, “making sure to put a handcuff on his hand as they helped him up.”

From Los Angeles Times

The footage doesn’t show him being arrested, but two witnesses told the outlet that they saw agents handcuff Ventura Aguilar and place him in a van.

From Los Angeles Times