kettling
Sign in to saveAlso known as containment, corralling
thumb|Riot police kettling protesters at the Camp for Climate Action#Camp in the City 2009|Camp for Climate action, part of the [[2009 G20 London summit protests]] thumb|Police kettling protesters at the Opernring in Vienna, COVID-19 pandemic in Austria#Prevention measures|part of the protest against coronavirus restrictions
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- Tactics
- By country
- Australia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Israel
- Spain
- United Kingdom
- Miners' strike, 1984
- Parliament Square disability rights demonstration, 1995
- N30 anti-WTO demonstration, 1999
- May Day 2001
- G8 summit, 2005
- G20, 2009
- Student protests, 2010
- Anti-Cuts protests, 2011
- Legal challenges
- United States
- Anti-Globalization movement, Washington D.C., 2002
- Iraq War protest, Chicago, 2003
- Republican National Convention, New York City, 2004
- Occupy Wall Street, 2011
- Presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, Washington D.C., 2017
- St. Louis, 2017
- George Floyd and Breonna Taylor protests, 2020
- Brooklyn Center, Minnesota: Daunte Wright protests, 2021
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Riot police kettling protesters at the Camp for Climate Action#Camp in the City 2009|Camp for Climate action, part of the [[2009 G20 London summit protests]] thumb|Police kettling protesters at the Opernring in Vienna, COVID-19 pandemic in Austria#Prevention measures|part of the protest against coronavirus restrictions
Kettling (also known as containment or corralling) is a police tactic for controlling large crowds during demonstrations or protests. It involves the formation of large cordons of police officers who then move to contain a crowd within a limited area. Protesters either leave through an exit controlled by the police, leave through an uncontrolled gap in the cordons, or are contained, prevented from leaving, and arrested.