Stuart Casey Maslen News Today

Analysis in English on World about Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding and Protection and Human Rights; published on 20 Apr 2023 by Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights

Robert Tufano, a spokesperson for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, told The Intercept in an email that “the practice of ‘kettling’ is prohibited under the department’s standard operation procedures.” Tufano added that the practice was “not specifically banned” before June 2, 2020, but the guidelines on civil emergency standard operating procedures were since updated to include the ban. Still, the prohibition on kettling is not written into any of the department’s pu...