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

“The state troopers are looking for them right now,” Leon said, “and the Department of Motor Vehicles is checking the ownership of all the Chevy pickups. So far nothing.”

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George