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captpackrat posted...

Kent State and Jackson State, 1970


The walls and windows of Alexander Hall on the Jackson State campus showed the evidence of the barrage left when officers opened fire on unarmed students with weapons including a submachine gun, carbines loaded with military ammunition, and a pair of 30.06 rifles firing armor-piercing bullets, striking the dorm almost 400 times.

A quick Wikipedia search brings up this on the Jackson shooting:

A group of around one hundred black students had gathered on Lynch Street (named after black Reconstruction Era congressman John R. Lynch), which bisected the campus, on the evening of Thursday, May 14. The group "were reportedly pelting rocks at white motorists driving down the main road through campus frequently the site of confrontations between white and black Jackson residents."[2] By around 9:30 p.m. the students had started fires, thrown rocks at motorists and overturned vehicles, including a large truck, after a false rumor spread of the death of Charles Evers. Firefighters dispatched to the scene quickly requested police support.

Rioting is not the same as protesting.

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Que sera, sera. Whatever happens, happens.
...and he was never heard from again.