4 Responses to Police Escalation with Protesters at Ambassador Bridge / Windsor Protest – Viva Frei Live

1. stella says:

   February 13, 2022 at 2:50 pm

   Viva’s brother is gutsy!

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2. stella says:

   February 13, 2022 at 2:56 pm

   From an article at GQ:

   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.

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   • auscitizenmom says:

     February 13, 2022 at 8:19 pm

     Thanks, I had heard the term but did not really know what it meant.

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     • stella says:

       February 14, 2022 at 3:03 am

       I didn’t either.

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