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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 19:49, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Riot shield

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Police officer with riot shield
Police officer with riot shield
  • ... that riot shields (pictured) may actually encourage protestors to throw things at police? Source: [1]

Improved to Good Article status by Freikorp (talk). Self-nominated at 03:29, 17 April 2018 (UTC).

  • GA, in time, long enough, sourced, no apparent copyvios, QPQ done, image is appropriately licensed. Freikorp, this sentence needs an inline citation: "While riot shields offer an effective form of protection in themselves, their use may encourage people to throw objects at the bearers." --Usernameunique (talk) 04:10, 17 April 2018 (UTC)