Edit: Name of University fixed.

  • @theparadox
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    882 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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      232 months ago

      What do they need the riot police for?

      • @[email protected]
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        562 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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          272 months ago

          And then trying to wipe it off the internet.

          • @[email protected]
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            22 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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              22 months ago

              They tried to scrub that. Silly humans

      • @Passerby6497
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        532 months ago

        Violently suppressing peaceful protestors is my guess.

      • @frunch
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        342 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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          82 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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        142 months ago

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

      • @Aceticon
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        2 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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        62 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 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