The tactic involves police officers charging at a crowd of people with batons and in some cases riot shields. They run at the crowd hitting people with their batons, and in some situations use riot shields to push them away. Baton charging is designed to cause pain or fear of pain, in the hope that crowds would be compelled to move away from the scene, dispersing them.
baton, charge, confused, with, baton, round, baton, charge, coordinated, tactic, dispersing, crowds, people, usually, used, police, paramilitary, military, response, public, disorder, indian, subcontinent, long, bamboo, stick, called, lathi, hindi, urdu, used,. Not to be confused with Baton round A baton charge is a coordinated tactic for dispersing crowds of people usually used by police paramilitary or military in response to public disorder In the Indian subcontinent a long bamboo stick called lathi in Hindi and Urdu is used for crowd control and the expression lathi charge commonly employed to describe the action A baton charge during the 2001 EU summit protests in Sweden The tactic involves police officers charging at a crowd of people with batons and in some cases riot shields They run at the crowd hitting people with their batons and in some situations use riot shields to push them away Baton charging is designed to cause pain or fear of pain in the hope that crowds would be compelled to move away from the scene dispersing them Indian subcontinent editIn the Indian subcontinent notably India Bangladesh Pakistan and Sri Lanka a long bamboo stick or staff called lathi is used for crowd control Some Indian police forces use lathis around 1 5 m 5 ft long but in other places lathis are shorter The term lathi charge is used by the Indian and Pakistani media 1 See also editLala Lajpat Rai Bhagat Singh Riot control Snatch squad Protesting Police brutality Lathi khelaReferences edit Police lathi charge protesters Times of India Retrieved 29 July 2010 nbsp This law enforcement related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Baton charge amp oldid 1203796832, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
