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Military / Defense / Riots, demostrations | | English term or phrase: sleeping dragons | Context: Riot control and management. Here is the phrase.
I only need to know how to say sleeping dragons in Spanish.
In “sleeping dragons” protestors put their handcuffs inside plastic tubes, which are incased in concrete, rather than handcuffing themselves to each other. The concrete tubes also might be covered with chicken wire, tar, and duct tape. They do this to make cutting them loose as difficult as possible. Have tools available to deal with these types of devices. Various types of saws and large bolt cutters may be needed to detach the demonstrators.
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| | | Spanish translation:dragones durmientes | Explanation:
* Armas de los manifestantes: mantas, títeres gigantes, tubos galvanizados llamados "dragones durmientes" y paliacates remojados con vinagre contra el gas lacrimógeno.
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Explanation:
A sleeping dragon is a maneuver used by protesters to cause disruption. It involves handcuffs and PVC pipe: a series of protesters are handcuffed together through the PVC pipe, which precludes police from simply using bolt cutters to break the handcuffs. Advanced variations include covering the PVC pipe with elements which might make it more difficult to break. Examples include chicken wire, tar, and duct tape. Another variation is filling the PVC pipe with concrete. Often the protesters will chain, lock, or otherwise secure themselves to immovable objects, resulting in a difficult-to-remove human obstacle.
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en las maniobras de los grupos étnicos "Sleeping Dragons"..
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campo durante los próximos años, catalogando a dicho grupo étnico como “the sleeping dragon of the US politics”204 (Davis 2000, 151). ...
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...conocido como "sleeping dragons" o dragones durmientes, los protestantes...
They had chains on their wrists attached to bolts drilled through the center of 3-to-4-foot lengths of PVC pipe. Known as lock boxes or "sleeping dragons," the pipes were covered with layers of chicken wire, tar and duct tape, making it difficult for anyone to cut through them.
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