Links tagged with “kettling”
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Kettling 2.0: The Olympic State of Exception and TSG Action Figures | Games Monitor
For the large bit on the portable steel cordons the UK police originally acquired for “Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear” situations and are now using to contain protestors. I’d be a bit shocked if I saw police in, say, a Middle Eastern country using these against peaceful protestors, and now…
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G20: Did police containment cause more trouble than it prevented? | World news | guardian.co.uk
“…people thinking about embarking on demonstrations in the future may have to decide whether they want to be effectively locked up for eight hours without food or water and, when leaving, to be photographed and identified.” I’m increasingly disliking this country. (via Preoccupations)