[Ads-l] Kettling

[Mark Mandel]

Thanks, Lawrence and Nancy.

Mark

On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 4:33 PM Nancy Friedman <wordworking at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Kettling" made its first US appearance during the 2011 Occupy protests. It
> had already been used for at least a decade in the UK, and may be a
> translation from German.
>
>
> https://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2011/10/word-of-the-week-kettling.html
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 1:18 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > https://www.gq.com/story/what-is-kettling
> >
> > What Is Kettling?
> > This controversial police tactic is appearing in cities across the United
> > States.
> > BY COLIN GROUNDWATER
> > June 5, 2020
> >
> > On Tuesday evening, as a large group of peaceful protesters marched over
> > the Manhattan Bridge, members of the New York Police Department parked on
> > opposite ends of the span, trapping 5,000 people over the water for
> nearly
> > an hour. The night before, in Dallas, police officers corralled
> protesters
> > on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge before arresting 674 of them (they were
> > released later that night, with ‘at-large charges’ for ‘blocking
> > traffic’). That same night in Washington, D.C., police officers drove
> > protesters into a crowded intersection of Swann and 15th NW with teargas.
> > All over the country this week, police officers have surrounded
> > protesters—and then refused to let them leave.
> >
> > This tactic is called kettling, a word you might have seen popping up in
> > social media posts from and about the protests. The term evokes a boiling
> > tea kettle, but it actually comes from a German military term referring
> to
> > an army that’s completely surrounded by a much larger force. “Kettling
> is a
> > law enforcement tactic specifically applied when the police have chosen
> to
> > criminalize existence in public spaces,” says Blake Strode, Executive
> > Director of ArchCity Defenders, a legal advocacy group that has handled
> > kettling cases in St. Louis. “So separate and apart from who is caught in
> > them and how people are impacted, which is all true and well-stated, it
> is
> > also fundamentally about police dictating whom is allowed to be where and
> > when.”
> >
> > Ostensibly a form of riot control, kettling occurs when police officers
> > block off streets and push people into confined areas, like a city block
> or
> > a bridge. While protest and riot management traditionally focuses on
> > dispersing crowds, kettling is all about containment. When you’re
> kettled,
> > you have no access to bathrooms, very little space, and no place to go.
> > Critically, no one gets to leave until the police say so. “Basically,
> it’s
> > a pressure cooker without a valve,” said civil rights attorney Javad
> > Khazaeli, ArchCity Defenders’ co-counsel on kettling cases.
> >
> > MAM
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