mass arrest
Sweeping police action
Mass arrest is the detention of many people at once, typically by police during protests, riots, or civil unrest.
The practice often prioritizes crowd control over individual probable cause, sweeping up bystanders along with participants: Mass arrests at the demonstration resulted in hundreds being held overnight.
Civil liberties groups frequently challenge mass arrests as unconstitutional.
- tear gasEye-irritating riot dispersant
- kettlingEncircling crowd control method
- riot controlSubduing violent gatherings
- handcuffsLocking wrist restraints
- police vanLaw enforcement transport vehicle
crowd dispersal · unlawful detention · custody · booking process · dragnet · habeas corpus · protest · civil disobedience · due process · roundup · Watts riots · authoritarianism · detention · human rights violation · political repression · incarceration · martial law · warrant
- protestdemonstration, walkout, picket, protest march, sit-in
- Student Protestssit-in, walkout, demonstration, campus activism, student movement
- dragnet methodsmanhunt, roundup, sting operation
- civil unrestriot, riots, rioting, mob, uprising
- detentionjail, detention centers, captive, prison, detention orders
- persecutionHolocaust, pogrom, genocide, pogroms, ethnic cleansing
mass arrestgeneral amnesty
Sweeping official forgiveness
blanket pardon · blanket amnesty · prisoner release · decarceration · decriminalization