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What (who) is knee-capping - definition
FORM OF MALICIOUS WOUNDING OR TORTURE TO THE KNEE, USUALLY BY GUNSHOT
Knee capping; Knee-capped; Knee-capping
knee-capping
also kneecapping
(knee-cappings)
Knee-capping is the act of shooting someone in the knee and is carried out by some terrorist organizations as a form of punishment.
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Kneecapping
Kneecapping is a form of malicious wounding, often as torture, in which the victim is injured in the knee. The injury is typically inflicted by a low-velocity gunshot to the knee pit with a handgun.
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Kneecapping
Kneecapping is a form of malicious wounding, often as torture, in which the victim is injured in the knee. The injury is typically inflicted by a low-velocity gunshot to the knee pit with a handgun. The term is considered a misnomer by medical professionals because only a very small minority of victims suffer damage to the kneecap. A review of eighty kneecapping victims found that only two had a fractured kneecap. Some victims have their elbows and ankles shot as well.
Examples of use of knee-capping
1. Hanging by the arms in cuffs, scorching of the body with something like an iron and knee–capping are claimed to be increasingly prevalent in the new Iraq.
2. Allegations of abuse covered burning, strangulation, sexual abuse, hanging by the arms, breaking of limbs and in one case, use of an electric drill for a knee–capping.
3. Rove has zero experience in organizing government relief efforts, but he is the master of our age when it comes to servicing cronies –– and knee–capping opponents –– for his witless boss in the White House.
4. The 48–page suit expands those charges, alleging that Intel "has resorted to old–fashioned threats, intimidation and knee capping" around the world to sell its microprocessors, the brain of every computer.
5. "Anyone born after 1'6' knows nothing but throwing stones at police and robbing post offices and knee–capping people," he said at the time of the 1''4 ceasefire.