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kettling

kettling

English

Noun

kettling ‎(uncountable)

A crowd control technique, used by police, where a hostile group of protesters or rioters are surrounded and not allowed to disperse, sometimes with the use of temporary fencing to corral and isolate portions of the group.

Translations

crowd control technique

French: kettling (fr) m
German: Polizeikessel (de) m

Verb

kettling

present participle of kettle

References

Amy Goodman; Marisa Holmes, Marina Sitrin, and Laurie Penny (October 3, 2011), “700 Arrested on Brooklyn Bridge as Occupy Wall Street Enters Third Week, Protests Grows Nationwide”, in (Please provide the title of the work), Democracy Now!, retrieved October 3, 2011