Edit: Name of University fixed.

    • @theparadox
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      887 months ago

      More arrests of college students walking out of class and peacefully protesting the situation in Gaza. This time UT Austin.

      • @okamiueru
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        237 months ago

        What do they need the riot police for?

        • @[email protected]
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          567 months ago

          Spraying chemicals directly in the faces of nonviolent students and then beating the shit out of them with batons.

          • @DerArzt
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            277 months ago

            And then trying to wipe it off the internet.

            • @[email protected]
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              27 months ago

              Wait - that meme cop at UC Davis or wherever some years ago with the pepper spray? They tried to scrub that?

              Or a different one? Because that meme was everywhere - good luck with that one.

              • @troglodytis
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                27 months ago

                They tried to scrub that. Silly humans

        • @Passerby6497
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          537 months ago

          Violently suppressing peaceful protestors is my guess.

        • @frunch
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          347 months ago

          To make it look like the protestors are violent. They wouldn’t call in those troops if it weren’t for those savage antisemitic protestors, right?!?

          • @RizzRustbolt
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            87 months ago

            Or if a bunch of school students are about to be killed and they need a group of nutsacks to stand around and do nothing.

            These are the same dorks from Uvalde.

        • @masquenox
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          147 months ago

          It’s hard to crack down on dissent without them.

        • @Aceticon
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          7 months ago

          Because the American Power Elites believe Might Makes Right and the riot police are their most willful and most violent goons.

        • @[email protected]
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          67 months ago

          Depending on your biases, either to try and maintain order to prevent it from becoming a riot, or to intimidate and assault protestors.

          Given the history of police and protesting college kids, it’s probably supposed to be mostly an intimidation thing.

        • Natanael
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          17 months ago

          They don’t, they just want to scare the kids into but expressing ideas they don’t like. Which is very illegal but they don’t care