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

“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

The route was lined by troopers on foot from the Household Cavalry's Life Guards and Blues and Royals.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2025

He’s also enlisted local police, state troopers and private security for the events.

From Salon • May 5, 2025

If the marchers crossed the Pettus Bridge to where the troopers were waiting, then turned around and walked back into Selma, there would be no violence and the demonstrators would have made their point.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman