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2 unusual facts about lockdown


Lockdown

In December 2005, the New South Wales Police Service initiated a lockdown of the Sutherland Shire and other beach areas of New South Wales to contain race rioting (and retaliative strikes).

On 19 April 2013, the entire city of Boston was locked down and all public transportation stopped during the manhunt for Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the suspects of the 2013 Boston bombings, while the town of Watertown was under heavy-armed police and SWAT surveillance, as well as systematic house-to-house searches.


'N' Dey Say

The casting includes Gabriel Casseus (from Lockdown) as the patron of a homeless and Faune A. Chambers (from White Chicks) as the mourning widow and the St. Lunatics as cameos.

Barack Obama assassination plot in Tennessee

At the request of federal authorities, the men were placed on lockdown in their Obion County, Tennessee, jail cell for their own safety.

Fabiano Iha

He won his last fight by KO at LIP 1 - Lockdown in Paradise 1 against John Cox on March 19, 2005.

Gabriel Casseus

He had a small role as pool playing Freddie in the 50 Cent movie Before I Self Destruct (2009); as Elliot's cellmate in Bedazzled ; as Kurth, one of the protagonist's squad mates in Black Hawk Down; In Lockdown, he played Cashmere, a drug dealer who was sent to prison wrongfully on a murder charge; and also played a small role in the 1998 movie Black Dog.

Hirooki Goto

He debuted in TNA on April 23, 2006 at Lockdown, where he teamed with Black Tiger IV and Minoru against Team USA members Sonjay Dutt, Jay Lethal and Alex Shelley.

Mass Effect 2: Overlord

Although the virtual intelligence is kept in lockdown in another research station, Archers tells Shepard that he/she needs to manually override security from two other facilities to gain access to it and shut it down.

Prison gangs in the United States

Christian Parenti argues in his book Lockdown America that prison gangs serve a convenient function for the prison establishment and officers.

Prison–industrial complex

Another writer of the era who covered the expanding prison population and attacked "the prison industrial complex" was Christian Parenti, who later disavowed the term before the publication of his book, Lockdown America (2000).

Slammiversary 10

After a momentary wait, James Storm, ending a two month absence due to a frustrating loss at Lockdown, answered the challenge.

They Keep Killing Suzie

Some time later, as they discover Suzie's absence, the Hub is put into lockdown, triggered by Max's repeated chanting of Emily Dickinson's poem, "Because I could not stop for death".


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