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“There was a handful of cops on the other side with billy clubs. And when they came over that fence, they met them with a couple whacks to the head and dragged them off.”

Then, police officers attacked protesters with billy clubs, dragging them out of Grant Park in a show of bloody force.

“They were praying when the billy clubs struck.”

He called California’s billy club ban “a very vague and nebulous law that has been abused for decades in California.”

Weapons such as billy clubs have been outlawed in some form or other in California since at least 1917, with exceptions for law enforcement officers and some state-licensed security guards, the Times said.