troopers

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In Selma: For the movie “Selma,” filmmakers returned to the Edmund Pettus Bridge to re-create the scene where state troopers clashed with nearly 600 voting-rights marchers in 1965, an event known as Bloody Sunday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

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

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2025

“Shame!” and “We all saw this!,” a reaction resulting in one man’s quick expulsion from the Capitol by state troopers as the senators watched, some filming the altercation on their phones.

From Slate • Aug. 28, 2025

"Nowhere will be safer than New Orleans now," he said, as he gestured at a small group of state troopers on Bourbon Street.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2025

Despite the pumpkin-season temperature, the day’s arid glitter, both boys were sweating as they approached a barricade that state troopers had erected at the entrance to River Valley Farm.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote