The cars slid backward and would have dropped through the opening made by the raising to the abutment of the bridge if policemen had not attracted the attention of the bridge tender by firing their revolvers.
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Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2026
To be honest, this risk goes also to nurses, policemen, teachers, doctors, public servants.
There was already a large police presence at the scene, including off-duty officers working for the festival, and some officers heard the shots.
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N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
7 June 2026
As officers still watched, without approaching due to the possibility that the suspect was armed with a gun, the homeowner came out onto their porch and appeared to be shouting at the suspect.
The moral decay of Karensville might as well be Charlottesville and the epithet-spewing McLeoud behaves too much like myriad red-state lawmen for comfort.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
As the lawmen avoided the beam of light and approached the car, the suspects were able to get inside and lock the doors.
Not all the coppers will turn out to be good — there are the corrupt and ambitious among them — but two are, Lena (Daryna Egorkina) and Oleksa (Valentyn Tomusiak), once trust has been established.
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Television Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2026
Golds, coppers, and rich emerald tones pop beautifully against melanin-rich skin.
Enter Orsolya, who shows up at the door with some gendarmes and an official eviction notice and gives Ion twenty minutes to quit the premises.
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Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
At the same time, there's enough nonsense, edging into ridiculousness, that the series might best be approached as a black action-comedy — at the end of the opening scene, the gendarmes are splattered with pieces of supermodel — or a very fancy B (maybe C) picture.
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