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What does heavy-handed mean?

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In Portugal handcuffed and hung over hooligans whinge about heavy-handed police tactics and plead their innocence.
But Ms Smith, who got caught up in the brawl, said she would be complaining to the police about their heavy-handed approach.
They warned, however, that a heavy-handed police response could trigger mass protests.
The heavy-handed tactics resulted in sporadic clashes between protesters and police and numerous arrests.
My apologies to the author for what may well be rather heavy-handed paraphrasing of his often quite poetic prose.
Some say the police did it to gain sympathy for the coming heavy-handed police tactics at the summit.

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