"Officer! Stop hitting us! Stop!" The first few men knocked to the ground wailed as they covered their heads and dodged the police batons. "We're just civilians who were called here! This has nothing to do with us!"
"Now you know you're civilians?" Uchiha Inaho, who was delivering six baton strikes per second, glared with his Sharingan. "Too late! You dared to charge the Military Police Force! Tomorrow, are you going to charge the Hokage Building?"
Before long, the fleeing troublemaking villagers scattered through Konoha's streets and alleys, with Military Police Force members brandishing police batons in relentless pursuit behind them.
Several passing villagers did not even know what was happening before Military Police Force members harshly drove them back into their homes. "What are you looking at? The village is under lockdown tonight! Nobody is to leave their homes! Anyone who does will be treated as a rioter!"
After saying that, the Military Police Force member leaped onto the wall lining the road. After accelerating forward, he descended from above and kicked down a fleeing protester, the police baton in his hand beginning to swing almost involuntarily.
The sight terrified the uninvolved villagers, who fled back into their homes and shut their doors and windows tight. Before long, Konoha's streets were left with only the fleeing troublemakers and the pursuing Military Police Force members.
At that moment, three Anbu on a mission within the village witnessed the scene. One of them asked, "Jonin Nagai, should we stop them?"
"Stop what? Can't you see the Military Police Force is enforcing the law?" Nagai Seiichi glared at the two Special Jonin accompanying him. "We just need to report this to Lord Hokage when we return. Don't go looking for trouble."
Though the nearly fully deployed Military Police Force was outnumbered several