Edit: Name of University fixed.

    • theparadox@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

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

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          8 months ago

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

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          8 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?!?

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            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.

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          8 months ago

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

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          8 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.

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          8 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