bricking

/ ˈbrɪkɪŋ /

noun

1. slang,  the falsification of evidence in order to bring a criminal charge

Example Sentences

During this summer of bricking, a few thoughts refused to leave me.

From Slate

Brick has an app, but there’s nothing to do in it except select which apps get bricked and then activate the bricking functionality.

From Slate

Unless they agreed, users were blocked from access to the Roku menu and apps, essentially bricking their devices.

From New York Times

Is your smartphone inexplicably bricking whenever you try to open your favorite app?

From Scientific American

San Francisco’s robotaxis have become notorious for “bricking”— or coming to a dead stop — in traffic, clogging lanes for emergency vehicles, blocking firetrucks from exiting stations, stopping on fire hoses and driving directly into emergency scenes where Police and Fire Department lights are flashing, rather than going another way.

From Los Angeles Times