sleeping dragon
English
A circle of people who are attached to one another by sleeping dragons
Noun
sleeping dragon (plural sleeping dragons)
- A tube-shaped device that protestors attach their hands to the inside, particularly when it results in them being attached to a large object, so that they are harder to remove them from an area.
- [2000 September, Thomas R. King, “Managine Protests on Public Land”, in FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, ISSN 0014-5688, page 11:
- 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.]
- 2009, Mike Roselle; Josh Mahan, Tree Spiker, page 245:
- 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.
- [2014, Hank Johnston, What is a Social Movement?:
- Figure 5.1 depicts a small example of tactical technology called a sleeping dragon.]
- 2016 September 21, Mark Rendell, “'We're protectors, we're not protesters:' Northerner talks about Dakota arrest”, in CBC News:
- 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," […]
- 2021 October 5, Hilary Beaumont, “Revealed: pipeline company paid Minnesota police for arresting and surveilling protesters”, in The Guardian:
- 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.