white shield

English

Noun

white shield (plural white shields)

1. (neologism) White people who make a formation around black people in order to protect them from racist violence.

   Hypernym: human shield

   • 2020, Awino Okech, Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 2:

     The purpose of this white shield around black bodies was to prevent the threat of violence by the police against the black students.