In Times Square the police presence was especially evident, perhaps mindful of the car bomb of inflammable fuel and fireworks that came close to exploding there on a busy Saturday night in May 2010.

在时代广场上警方布置的力量尤为明显，可能是他们回想起2010年五月的那个星期六，当晚一辆载着易燃燃料和烟火的汽车炸弹在迫近这一地点时引发爆炸的情景。

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A dozen mounted police rode into the square.

12名骑警来到了广场。

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Large numbers of police were in the square to forestall any demonstrations.

大批警察在广场上以预先阻止任何游行示威。

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The shooter was walking at a steady pace along a narrow street that leads from the square outside Parliament's lower house to the square outside the premier's office when police officers appear to have stopped him to ask where he was going.

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One pocket of violence broke out a few blocks from the square, where police erected a barrier of concrete blocks on a street leading to the Interior Ministry and other government buildings.

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The gunman's intended target was politicians but none were in the square so he shot at the Carabinieiri paramilitary police, Rome Prosecutor Pierfilippo Laviani told reporters, citing what he said were the suspect's own words.

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