kettling

• Students engaging in a sit-down in the street complained that they were baton-charged by police, but otherwise, apart from reaction to the attack on the bank and the sealing off roads and steady, tightening advance of police - a process known as 'kettling' - the 5,000 police drawn from across the country took a largely hands-off approach until the mid-afternoon, when protesters at the Bank of England pushed through police lines. —  EUobserver.com - Headline News
• The tactic of "kettling" - holding protesters and anyone caught up in the protest behind police lines for hours on end without access to water or toilet facilities - came in for particular criticism. —  Socialist Worker (Britain)
• Judging from the tactics employed by the police, including "kettling" -- holding people at bay within a confined, sectioned off environment so that they even had to urinate within this space, I believe it is a pretty fair assessment that the government undermined the peaceful protest of the populace. —  Boston.com Most Popular
• The use of 'kettling' - compressing crowds for nearly 8 hours, with no access to water, food or toilets is bound to make a situation boil as what happened at Bank. —  Boston.com Most Popular
• The phrase kettling is a translation from the german word used to describe the police tactic in the 60's known as the Hamburger Kessel. —  The Lede

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