Current Events > The amount of police force being used on students protesting is insane

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Straight up fascism. Especially when you consider the neo-Nazi marches that have happened at pretty much every one of these universities and none of them were met with police force.

Arresting press and beating press
https://twitter.com/Chris_Kuhlman00/status/1783246503907311936

https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1783252918847537374

https://twitter.com/shoebyron/status/1783209696691904645

https://twitter.com/angorellanah/status/1783290253165600969

https://twitter.com/RyanChandlerTV/status/1783197539824468403

https://twitter.com/loffredojeremy/status/1782994615391449360

There's a non-zero percent chance that some kid is going to die and we're just gonna have to live with the justification behind it because this is just what America is.

And genocide supporters are cheering on this

https://twitter.com/broseph_stalin/status/1783262353284276597

Cops are getting a chance to beat the shit out of people while wearing the full weeoweeo special cop gear.

They live for this shit.

cjsdowg posted...

Its okay because under Trump it would be worse.

It's not okay, and yes, it would be worse.

Read some fucking court transcripts.

Conservatives will cry about how unfair 1/6 was, yet they had a different tone when people were getting fucked up left and right during the BLM stuff, or now. 1/6 was like the one time we've seen right-wing protests get similar treatment to other protests, and that was only because they literally raided the motherfucking Capitol.

DrizztLink posted...

It's not okay, and yes, it would be worse.

"It's not okay, but it's still happening anyway and we can't stop it"

I'm tired of this stance.

Ah, the government using their goon squads to silence opposition to whatever bullshit thing they are doing. Oldest trick in the book!

Real talk though, fuck those police/security guards (and their handlers).

cjsdowg posted...

Its okay because under Trump it would be worse.

You hate trans people. Shut the fuck up.

Cops continue to show who they protect, and it ain't us.

RndmNmber1 posted...

I'm tired of this stance.

Then quit bringing it up, nobody is saying that.

we are discussing this at my university now how its a crack down on a first amendment right

RndmNmber1 posted...

"It's not okay, but it's still happening anyway and we can't stop it"

I'm tired of this stance.

And we're tired of your bland ass sealioning but you're gonna keep going anyway.

Where's all the 2nd Amendment loving Texans at?

DrizztLink posted...

Then quit bringing it up, nobody is saying that.

Hello mr nobody

Why are cops shutting down these protests? Is there some law they are allegedly breaking?

RndmNmber1 posted...

Hello mr nobody

If that's the point you drew from my post, I suggest Hooked on Phonics.

That will be all.

Like why the actual fuck would anyone think people saying "Trump would be worse" means they think America is great and Biden is perfect.

The literal words and the lack of positive tone kind of imply that the very best you can say about the other side is that they suck less. "Trump would be much worse" is an indictment against America, not something said with pride.

Supporting Palestinian is taboo in the US.

DrizztLink posted...

Then quit bringing it up, nobody is saying that.

"It can be stopped and isn't." is supposed to be better?

ssjevot posted...

Why are cops shutting down these protests? Is there some law they are allegedly breaking?

Since when do cops need a reason to beat people up and arrest them?

ssjevot posted...

Why are cops shutting down these protests? Is there some law they are allegedly breaking?

Yeah, "Don't tell us how to use our military"

It's in the really small print of the 1st Amendment.

DDP886 posted...

we are discussing this at my university now how its a crack down on a first amendment right

Arresting press like that is pretty clear and cut 1st amendment violation. With speech there's various bullshit like obscenity, sedition, threats, abuse, and other things that can cancel out your right to free speech but there's no such restrictions with press. They can pretty much do anything as long as they aren't trespassing.

ButteryMales posted...

"It can be stopped and isn't." is supposed to be better?

We can keep the shitty status quo and attempt to fix the country, or we can burn it all down and let tens of millions of innocent Americans be FUCKING MURDERED by official government decree.

Your choice.

Cheater87 posted...

Supporting Palestinian is taboo in the US.

Opposing Israel is taboo in the US.

Reminds me of fat cop walking by a line of protesters sitting on the ground and chemical spraying them.

Dude wanted to use his "compliance tools" that are a war crime under any other circumstances and his happy ass got immortalized as a meme.

And we're so far beyond even that now. Insane.

There's nothing cops like more than beating the shit out of peaceful protesters.

https://twitter.com/themonicamadden/status/1783245101503782933

https://twitter.com/sunraysunray/status/1783503350425641071

mario2000 posted...

Since when do cops need a reason to beat people up and arrest them?

They usually present one so they can get paid vacation when they murder someone for example. So I assume they have some pretense they're using. When I lived in the US my university often had protests and I never remember police breaking them up. It was considered free speech.

ClayGuida posted...

Cops continue to show who they protect, and it ain't us.

well yeah they definitely aren't pro-palestine considering who trains a lot of police in America (it's Israel. Israel trains american cops for some reason)

Pretty much par for the course when people are protesting legitimate issues. This happened non-stop during the BLM protests a few years ago, too.

The tiki torch brigade gets a free pass, tho.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/de692e2a.jpg

I mean. It's pretty obvious why they are banning tiktok. And now absurd levels of violence on non-violent prostestors?

https://twitter.com/NationalSJP/status/1783188086974734457

Tyranthraxus posted...

Arresting press like that is pretty clear and cut 1st amendment violation. With speech there's various bullshit like obscenity, sedition, threats, abuse, and other things that can cancel out your right to free speech but there's no such restrictions with press. They can pretty much do anything as long as they aren't trespassing.

100%...... I'm Jewish but people have the right to protest the involvement in Gaza as long as there is no violence. They have the right to do it. If we have them arrested, who are we? are we no better than those we are fighting? Where does it go from here, whats next?

DDP886 posted...

If we have them arrested, who are we? are we no better than those we are fighting? Where does it go from here, whats next?

I've been emphasizing this to so many people, but they refuse to listen

Police have a huge anti-left bias. Meanwhile the right wing whines about bans from Twitter.

Smashingpmkns posted...

https://twitter.com/angorellanah/status/1783290253165600969

Ah, that's what was happening yesterday. I saw a ton of news helicopters hovering over the USC area yesterday evening, but I forgot to look up what it was after I stopped driving.

Hate that they're using this much police on peaceful protesters.

RndmNmber1 posted...

I've been emphasizing this to so many people, but they refuse to listen

My Hillel doesn't even see it they're so blind. I turned my back on them completely and left the organization

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1783518484137226284

It's not really insane

I'm on the side of the protesters but it's normal for this kind of thing to happen.

Since Hong Kong, COVID has been a huge deterrent for these kinds of protests. The same people yelling and holding up signs in large groups will be sniffling and feverish in the next few days. They then either stop protesting or spread their sickness to other like-minded people. Happened during the George Floyd protests and that was pre-vaccine.

Jaguar34 posted...

It's not really insane

I'm on the side of the protesters but it's normal for this kind of thing to happen.

Since Hong Kong, COVID has been a huge deterrent for these kinds of protests. The same people yelling and holding up signs in large groups will be sniffling and feverish in the next few days. They then either stop protesting or spread their sickness to other like-minded people. Happened during the George Floyd protests and that was pre-vaccine.

So... Excessive police response is okay because... The protestors will get sick???

Jaguar34 posted...

It's not really insane

I'm on the side of the protesters but it's normal for this kind of thing to happen.

Since Hong Kong, COVID has been a huge deterrent for these kinds of protests. The same people yelling and holding up signs in large groups will be sniffling and feverish in the next few days. They then either stop protesting or spread their sickness to other like-minded people. Happened during the George Floyd protests and that was pre-vaccine.

This post is also pretty insane.

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

The enacting of the Civil Rights Act, protection of Anti war protests in Vietnam and Iraq, Brown vs. the Board of Education

There's been lots of times police have been on the right side of history

Smashingpmkns posted...

https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1783518484137226284

lol and they know they're being filmed, literally don't care jfc

nekrodev posted...

lol and they know they're being filmed, literally don't care jfc

Oink oink.

The person being tased was also clearly marked as a street medic according to people that were there.