sleeping dragon
noun1
A tube-shaped device that protesters attach their hands to on the inside, particularly in order to attach themselves to a large object so that they cannot easily be removed from an area.
- More ambitious acts include locking themselves to one another or to special devices, including a "sleeping dragon," a pipe cemented into a road bed into which the protestors can lock their arms.[2000 September, Thomas R. King, “Managing Protests on Public Land”, in FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, →ISSN, page 11:
- The blockade was centered around four college students forming a human chain, their hands encased in containers of hardened cement, the old sleeping dragon trick.2009, Mike Roselle, Josh Mahan, Tree Spiker, page 245:
3 more examples
- Figure 5.1 depicts a small example of tactical technology called a sleeping dragon.[2014, Hank Johnston, What is a Social Movement?:
- According to a Morton County peace officer's affidavit, filed with the state of North Dakota, "[Daniel T'seleie] used a sleeping dragon device to secure himself," […]2016 September 21, Mark Rendell, “'We're protectors, we're not protesters:' Northerner talks about Dakota arrest”, in CBC News:
- The Hubbard county sheriff’s office sent a “code red” to the Beltrami county field force extrication team, which had received training from 2016 to 2020 to remove protesters who used sleeping dragons.2021 October 5, Hilary Beaumont, “Revealed: pipeline company paid Minnesota police for arresting and surveilling protesters”, in The Guardian: