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sleeping dragon en · NOUN

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1. 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 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

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