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Illinois state troopers pushed Woolf and other demonstrators back with night sticks.

"When I came home, the roads were just blocked with state troopers. You had to show up proof that you lived here to get through," she said.

The alliance of German industrialists and Nazi storm troopers almost a century ago weakened and ultimately sank the Weimar Republic.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is aggressively wooing recruits with experience slapping handcuffs on suspects: sheriff’s deputies, state troopers and local cops.

In late July, Missouri state troopers walked into St. Louis County government headquarters and seized the cellphone of one of the most prominent Democratic officials in this solidly red state.