Five@slrpnk.net to Texas@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-27 months agoRiot cops line up next to a sign at University of Texas at Austin.slrpnk.netimagemessage-square134fedilinkarrow-up1638arrow-down111file-textcross-posted to: texas@lemmy.world
arrow-up1627arrow-down1imageRiot cops line up next to a sign at University of Texas at Austin.slrpnk.netFive@slrpnk.net to Texas@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-27 months agomessage-square134fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: texas@lemmy.world
minus-squaretheparadox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up87arrow-down1·7 months agoMore arrests of college students walking out of class and peacefully protesting the situation in Gaza. This time UT Austin.
minus-squareokamiueru@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24arrow-down1·7 months agoWhat do they need the riot police for?
minus-squarePasserby6497@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up53·7 months agoViolently suppressing peaceful protestors is my guess.
minus-squarejkrtn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up54arrow-down1·7 months agoSpraying chemicals directly in the faces of nonviolent students and then beating the shit out of them with batons.
minus-squareDerArzt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up26·7 months agoAnd then trying to wipe it off the internet.
minus-squarePrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoWait - 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.
minus-squaretroglodytis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoThey tried to scrub that. Silly humans
minus-squarefrunch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up33·7 months agoTo 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?!?
minus-squareRizzRustbolt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·7 months agoOr 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.
minus-squaremasquenox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·7 months agoIt’s hard to crack down on dissent without them.
minus-squareAceticon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-27 months agoBecause the American Power Elites believe Might Makes Right and the riot police are their most willful and most violent goons.
minus-squarescoobford@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down2·7 months agoDepending 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.
minus-squareNatanael@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoThey 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
More arrests of college students walking out of class and peacefully protesting the situation in Gaza. This time UT Austin.
What do they need the riot police for?
Violently suppressing peaceful protestors is my guess.
Spraying chemicals directly in the faces of nonviolent students and then beating the shit out of them with batons.
And then trying to wipe it off the internet.
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.
They tried to scrub that. Silly humans
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?!?
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.
It’s hard to crack down on dissent without them.
Great question.
Because the American Power Elites believe Might Makes Right and the riot police are their most willful and most violent goons.
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.
To beat pregnant
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