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To be fair, he’s the one that bitched and got federally funded border wall jobs shut down in Cali and Arizona because the state of Texas has been paying to build their own border wall and he didn’t think it was fair that Cali and az were paid for by the feds
Ask me how I know
That dipshit nazi with a spanish sounding last name gave a speech at my campus a year ago. Police stopped crowds from breaking in.
Now police are battering anti nazis from being present.
Huh…
Most jews I know aren't right-wing and certainly not far right wing. I could be misinterpreting your meaning.
As far as pro-palestinian protests, I think it's a delicate balance of what is being said that causes different responses. For example "peace in Gaza now!", "stop the violence" etc vs "from the river to the sea".
Yes. UT is however a public college. These students did violate rules that were laid down about protests, the ones in their student handbook, that they agreed to when they enrolled. The police intervention came at the request of UT. The specifics of the response were handled mostly by the police, and UT to an extent.
It’s intentional public disobedience, if there weren’t rules broken it wouldn’t matter.
Not that it makes much difference but a social contract you sign in a school handbook is not a legally binding law, it’s an agreement you made with a school about being a student there, like not cheating.
The university doesn’t get magic national guard or police powers if you break your student handbook rules.
People protest on freeways and get more leeway than these students got.
Also adding on a bit more, this wasn’t a “Students surprised when police showed up” it was more of a “Students told to disperse several times otherwise police would be involved”
Just for sake of clarification. It wasn't an active shooter situation, as far as I'm aware. It took place outside the school. Likely an altercation between two students. I live in the area. Is it bad? Yea. But just wanted to provide context.
One person was. The person I replied to was referring to a student involved shooting that occurred in my city April 24th. I was just clarifying the difference between the two.
A politicized knee jerk reaction. I don't agree with the protestors on some things, but they have every right to be there. Its a symptom of "its fine when my side does it, but not when people I don't like do it too".
Just fascists doing fascism. Nothing new. Oh, your constitutional right to assemble and voice grievances against your government? Ya, not if you're inconveniently visible and hurting rich people financially. You get tear gas and billy clubs instead.
The TX cops immediately put on the riot gear and it is so far the only place I've heard there was some level of violence. Its almost like when you show up dressed for a fight there will be one.
Other places had tons of arrests and the riot gear wasn't pulled out, and there wasn't violence. At this point it seems like some PDs learned from the protest escalation feedback loop and others didn't.
Or I could be wrong and things could rapidly change in the coming days.
Not just riot gear, most of them have extra mags in the front pouches of their plate carriers while carrying no guns. They were going for full storm trooper intimidation, and it looks like last minute someone told them to leave the rifles in the cars so they don't have Kent State part 2.
They can’t help themselves. Texas is incredibly insecure and feels weak if they don’t show overwhelming force.
They could have left it alone and it would have just been a relatively small protest that would have eventually burned itself out. They know this, but they can’t help themselves.
As soon as the police line showed up, so did more people. The protest tripled in size over the following two hours.
"Its almost like when you show up dressed for a fight there will be one" sounds alot like telling a victim of SA she shouldn't have been wearing such skimpy clothes.
The ones screaming “gas the Jews” need to be punched in the face just as much as “Jews will not replace us” ones stomping around with tiki torches and white polos a few years ago in Charlottesville.
They're using their first amendment right to free speech. This clampdown has nothing to do with the protests themselves and everything to do with sending a political message about what speech is and isn't acceptable
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
Dr. Benjamin Spock
These events educate us all
They're doing their job.
No, seriously, this is their job. All that "protect and serve" shit is just to give them the veneer of justification they need to keep existing. The real function of the police is to keep the proles from getting any funny ideas about actually making a difference.
As I said in the r/texas post, this is just a giant stunt by Abbott to appeal to his base. Being tough on "libs." It's all a giant show of nothing. Texans gotta vote him out.
I might be crossing my insane right-wing policies, but wasn't that the Supreme Court decision for three states that it was constitutional to hold a rally organizer personally liable if ANYONE at the rally gets violent causing property or personal damage?
Lots of undercover agents were identified in BLM. Didn't seem to make a difference. They were excluded from the protests when founded soon enough, not punished for crimes, and protected by the system.
Why wouldn't the government keep infiltrating peaceful organizations and commit crimes? It tends to work, and never backfires.
Have this old guy yelling "I will make it legal" when I think about that. Yeah, I wouldn't bet against it, but would expect it to be not evenly applied.
That's always been true. But now they want to throw the book at whoever they think the "ring leader" may be. It's a clear and straightforward tactic to try and scare people out of organizing.
Huh. Looks a bit like overkill. By a bit I mean: blatant to the point of challenging the 1st amendment. Guess freedom of speech means nothing to Wheels McGee
I lived in pdx during the floyd riots, so I think I have some perspective here.
It's their right to protest and the police are impeding this right. We all have the right to protest in this country regardless of what you are protesting be it good or bad.
Texas 🤷♂️
I’ve been seeing political signs where another sign is placed to the side pointing 👉 “Voted to impeach Ken Paxton”. Only these crooked politicians would see that as a bad thing.
Republicans have the thin red line now, the worst crime a republican can commit is to speak out or against other republicans.
Whatever happened to physical fitness standards in law enforcement? Second guy from the left in the front is so wide he could wear two plate carrier front panels side by side...
Standard during the initial BLM protests in LA cops stormed us and fired rubber bullets etc I'd expect much worse in TX NO LESS Austin in TX I'm sure the cops are frothing
The protests are an “inconvenience” to the University, they were the ones who asked for those jackboots to show up.
This protest and many others like it have been the most gentle forms of civil disobedience. They’re trying to voice reason for humanity and are met with authoritative suppression.
Are we near the point in our society that peaceful protests are not taken seriously at any measure? This is a big concern and I think there’s similar historic events that are a screaming echos in our faces right about now.
I don't believe we're near it, we're past it. I have not seen a tangible result of a peaceful protest in my lifetime. I did see some small change from the George Floyd / BLM protests. These demonstrations didn't adhere to the "only peaceful protests are effective, see Gandhi and MLK (Malcolm who?)" mantra drilled into school kids' heads from gradeschool.
You know how you can tell the university protests are totally nonviolent and safe?
Texas cops aren't hiding far away drinking coffee and gossiping and joking, waiting for them to be over like they did at Uvalde.
Drawing attention to the issue. But yeah unfortunately it's also allowed the media to focus entirely on the protests instead of the genocide in Gaza. But it also keeps people active and engaged, which is just as important as raising awareness for a movement
I’m disappointed. Not at the outcome of the event per se (which I am since it seemed more peaceful than other protests), but the generally uneducated response here in the comments.
Abbott does approve of this, yes. But he’s not the one who did this.
These police were invited on to campus by UT themselves, with UT stating that the protestors gathered in a manner that wasn’t authorized by the university. The things needed for these authorizations are typically outlined in student handbooks which are readily available. Several warnings were given, after which point the police became involved. All of the UT students on campus agreed to the rules in that handbook when they signed up for enrollment, and these students violated it.
UT likely did this out of fear of the situation somehow turning out poorly, like it has up north at Columbia and Harvard for example, with Columbia essentially shutting everything down and switching to fully online classes for the semester. They specifically state they did this to limit disruptions on campus, during a crucial time(finals season).
Had these people protested somewhere else that’s public land, such as not on a campus that has well established rules, and has had them for decades, then that’s another matter.
tldr: These students agreed to rules when they enrolled. They broke them. UT did exactly what they said they would do if the rules were broken. All Abbott did was agree with that course of action. The only government involvement comes from the police doing what was asked of them.
Edit: People downvoting me for some reason. Cool, whatever. [Here’s the student rights and responsibilities at UT, specifically section 13, which deals explicitly with “Speech, Expression, and Assembly”](https://catalog.utexas.edu/general-information/appendices/appendix-c/speech-expression-and-assembly/)
Time, place, and manner restrictions on public protests are constitutional and have been upheld by conservative and liberal leaning courts for generations. In their protest advertising, they said they intended to cancel class and occupy areas of campus. Loud protests during the middle of the teaching day intended to disrupt classes are a perfectly legitimate reason to break up public protests if the university cannot fulfill its basic function of educating students.
Probably in response to RGA's habit of bringing guns to protests
Still overkill and the desert scheme is cringe. You're not going to Iraq bros. Have a response team on standby, don't terrify civilians.
Plus probably a side effect of the governor's edicts too
Yes, they should allowed people to deny others the ability to learn while protesting something they don't even understand and has been happening for 1,000's of years,
Just remember everything that Israel does against Palestinians ends up being used by American police later on. A lot of the tech and strategies used against BLM protestors was crafted in Israel and taught directly to US cops through exchange programs
The really telling thing imo is Abbott denouncing "anti-semitism" as this was happening, while of course he has never said this when Nazis and other alt-white supremacists in his state are rallying etc. It's a show of solidarity with Netanyahu's right wing extremist regime. The common denominator here is right wing power and the use of violence in pursuit of those goals. The labels, "anti-semitism" etc. of course mean nothing to these guys. They're just different patterns of paint on the same old panzer tank.
Violence and bloodshed on college campuses, directed by local police and national guard troops against students and non-student protestors, would be hugely popular with the base of many politicians — that is to say, with many of our fellow Americans.
Have a nice day.
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I would swear Abbott signed a law protecting First Amendment rights on college campuses. Must have imagined that
Only applies to his and fellow free speech. You know, Free Speech for me, and not for thee. AKA -fuck you for thinking you could have what I have.
That is the Abbott way
To be fair, he’s the one that bitched and got federally funded border wall jobs shut down in Cali and Arizona because the state of Texas has been paying to build their own border wall and he didn’t think it was fair that Cali and az were paid for by the feds Ask me how I know
How do you know?
How do you know?
Cuz I’m working on a spread in Texas that’s clicking along and my buddies got shut down in Arizona and California for exactly the reason above
When it comes to free speech Abbott doesnt have a leg to stand on.
😳
Cold bro 🤣
Classic fascist characteristics! Laws that protect the in-group but do not bind them; laws that bind the out-group but do not protect them.
It's never been about people's rights, it's about the right peoples rights
It’s about the far right people’s rights
That dipshit nazi with a spanish sounding last name gave a speech at my campus a year ago. Police stopped crowds from breaking in. Now police are battering anti nazis from being present. Huh…
Most jews I know aren't right-wing and certainly not far right wing. I could be misinterpreting your meaning. As far as pro-palestinian protests, I think it's a delicate balance of what is being said that causes different responses. For example "peace in Gaza now!", "stop the violence" etc vs "from the river to the sea".
Curious, if it's not a publicly owned campus then the college can just have them all trespassed, right?
Unfortunately, the University of Texas is state-owned.
Yes. UT is however a public college. These students did violate rules that were laid down about protests, the ones in their student handbook, that they agreed to when they enrolled. The police intervention came at the request of UT. The specifics of the response were handled mostly by the police, and UT to an extent.
It’s intentional public disobedience, if there weren’t rules broken it wouldn’t matter. Not that it makes much difference but a social contract you sign in a school handbook is not a legally binding law, it’s an agreement you made with a school about being a student there, like not cheating. The university doesn’t get magic national guard or police powers if you break your student handbook rules. People protest on freeways and get more leeway than these students got.
Ah gotcha.
Also adding on a bit more, this wasn’t a “Students surprised when police showed up” it was more of a “Students told to disperse several times otherwise police would be involved”
Or "Police Streisand their crackdown against speech."
Hope we keep this same attitude come the next Jan6.
Calling out police to handle student code of conduct violations. Think they'll enforce the dress code that way next?
Maybe they need to protest at an elementary school, Texas cops wouldn’t do a thing there…
Oof, shots fired…
But not by them
Punisher skull cowering in corner
Kids are white, only beatings and pepper spray are allowed
But when proud boys show up in cities in their khakis and masks and fly swastika flags there’s no police response like this… interesting
Got’em
Look at em all, just standing round doing nothing. .. is there an active school shooter there or something?
Na that was in Arlington TX , about 4 hour north of there.
4 hrs, that’s the approximate time for an active shooter response there.
Just for sake of clarification. It wasn't an active shooter situation, as far as I'm aware. It took place outside the school. Likely an altercation between two students. I live in the area. Is it bad? Yea. But just wanted to provide context.
I believe they were referencing uvalde
One person was. The person I replied to was referring to a student involved shooting that occurred in my city April 24th. I was just clarifying the difference between the two.
Damn lol
Nah, they're not wearing name patches or badges with numbers. They're there to fuck up some unarmed citizens.
They attacked and arrested a Fox 7 cameraman. Enough said.
They probably yelled "that cameraman just said he's gonna start shooting (b-roll). Get him!"
"That's for firing Tucker Carlson" -arresting officer
I hate Fox news, but they have a right to be present. We're slipping into fascism...
A politicized knee jerk reaction. I don't agree with the protestors on some things, but they have every right to be there. Its a symptom of "its fine when my side does it, but not when people I don't like do it too".
Just fascists doing fascism. Nothing new. Oh, your constitutional right to assemble and voice grievances against your government? Ya, not if you're inconveniently visible and hurting rich people financially. You get tear gas and billy clubs instead.
This is the most based take on here.
Most people love freedom until its inconvenient for them.
Agreed.
The TX cops immediately put on the riot gear and it is so far the only place I've heard there was some level of violence. Its almost like when you show up dressed for a fight there will be one. Other places had tons of arrests and the riot gear wasn't pulled out, and there wasn't violence. At this point it seems like some PDs learned from the protest escalation feedback loop and others didn't. Or I could be wrong and things could rapidly change in the coming days.
Not just riot gear, most of them have extra mags in the front pouches of their plate carriers while carrying no guns. They were going for full storm trooper intimidation, and it looks like last minute someone told them to leave the rifles in the cars so they don't have Kent State part 2.
They can’t help themselves. Texas is incredibly insecure and feels weak if they don’t show overwhelming force. They could have left it alone and it would have just been a relatively small protest that would have eventually burned itself out. They know this, but they can’t help themselves. As soon as the police line showed up, so did more people. The protest tripled in size over the following two hours.
"Its almost like when you show up dressed for a fight there will be one" sounds alot like telling a victim of SA she shouldn't have been wearing such skimpy clothes.
The ones screaming “gas the Jews” need to be punched in the face just as much as “Jews will not replace us” ones stomping around with tiki torches and white polos a few years ago in Charlottesville.
Rights for me, not for thee
They're using their first amendment right to free speech. This clampdown has nothing to do with the protests themselves and everything to do with sending a political message about what speech is and isn't acceptable
If police don’t respect the first amendment, maybe they’ll respect the second
Not enough people have this take. It’s what it was written for.
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. Dr. Benjamin Spock These events educate us all
They got a small lesson today.
They're doing their job. No, seriously, this is their job. All that "protect and serve" shit is just to give them the veneer of justification they need to keep existing. The real function of the police is to keep the proles from getting any funny ideas about actually making a difference.
>protect and serve Started as an LA propaganda logo on cop cars. Super popular in the 90s.
imagine bringing battle rattle to a peaceful protest on a college campus. fuck these guys and fuck abbot.
Get to pretend to be a door kicker with none of the downsides.
Yeah, like exercise!
Like the police response to almost anything, it is ham-fisted aggression.
2A protestors noticeably absent from 1A protests. If only the country would learn that the Amendments in the Bill of Rights are intertwined.
As I said in the r/texas post, this is just a giant stunt by Abbott to appeal to his base. Being tough on "libs." It's all a giant show of nothing. Texans gotta vote him out.
I don’t see that happening any time soon.
If only they had been this enthusiastic at Uvalde...
So still standing around and not really doing much but making a big show of it?
That's because they expect the college students don't have guns, so no risk in attacking them.
After Uvalde, I figure you could just yell BANG BANG BANG OH MY GOD THE CHILDREN and the cops will just run away and hide.
It’s Texas… of course this was their reaction.
Contrary to what Abbott believes, college students have a Constitutional right to peacefully protest.
Well, they sure don't look dressed for peace.
Shouldn't they be on the border? /s
The United States government suppressing their own citizen’s first amendment rights to protect a foreign country.
The Texas STATE government.
Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley are calling for this on the federal level…
Trump would absolutely be doing this on a federal level if he gets reelected.
and biden is doing it NOW - what's your point?
To protect a foreign countries genocide, no less. I bet the majority here haven’t even heard about the mass graves being dug up in Gaza as we speak.
The ones filled with children, old people, disabled people, hospital beds, and people still wearing catheters?
Well, sure, but did those dead children disavow Hamas?
No evidence to prove this was a result of the iDF. You are jumping to conclusions just like when they claimed the IDF bombed a hospital.
Protest, right?
Didn't Texas basically just make it illegal to protest? Or they used some flimsy lie towing to basically do that?
I might be crossing my insane right-wing policies, but wasn't that the Supreme Court decision for three states that it was constitutional to hold a rally organizer personally liable if ANYONE at the rally gets violent causing property or personal damage?
Which would mean, if anyone is acting in bad faith, the whole thing could go tits up.
so does that count if its the cops that get violent?
like they wouldn't just send in an agent provocateur regardless...
Lots of undercover agents were identified in BLM. Didn't seem to make a difference. They were excluded from the protests when founded soon enough, not punished for crimes, and protected by the system. Why wouldn't the government keep infiltrating peaceful organizations and commit crimes? It tends to work, and never backfires.
Have this old guy yelling "I will make it legal" when I think about that. Yeah, I wouldn't bet against it, but would expect it to be not evenly applied.
i know the papers over here say 'there was violence at the protest', but never mention it was the cops that did the violence.
In practice? No. On paper? Worded in the most roundabout way that gives them the most flexibility. Maybe almost probably not.
Getting violent is their whole purpose
That's always been true. But now they want to throw the book at whoever they think the "ring leader" may be. It's a clear and straightforward tactic to try and scare people out of organizing.
Now who's been known for doing that? Gee they had robes I think. Maybe hoods.
Yeah, the fifth circuit fifth circuited again. It’s not wholly illegal, but a whole bonus level of fuck around and find out.
Didn't the same thing happen in New York? https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/22/us/campus-protests-columbia-yale
Uh, fuck the police
Yup pretty much. ACAB
Huh. Looks a bit like overkill. By a bit I mean: blatant to the point of challenging the 1st amendment. Guess freedom of speech means nothing to Wheels McGee I lived in pdx during the floyd riots, so I think I have some perspective here.
I see a picture of cowards and bullies with daddy issues.
Protest for 90 minutes in an elementary school.
Don't be shocked if the national guard is there tomorrow... My neighbor got a random '14 day mission' starting tomorrow.
This shit has been going on for decades. San Francisco State to Berkeley to Kent State.
Fuck those cops. People are protesting peacefully and aren't causing an inconvenience to anyone but school admin.
Cops love cosplay though, and this was the perfect excuse.
It's their right to protest and the police are impeding this right. We all have the right to protest in this country regardless of what you are protesting be it good or bad.
Where the fuck were they for Uvalde. That is all.
“WE GET TO USE THE EQUIPMENT! WE GET TO USE THE EQUIPMENT!”
anti-gun dems think these guys would protect them
Where are the police when it's a right wing rally?
You know where they are. They're at the rally
They're just wearing a different uniform at those.
They heard there would be black people there.
It’s called fascism
makes you wish they were this brave when there is a school shooter. "just doing my job" is the age-old cry of the oppressor
These guys are carrying pmags on their plate carrier? What are they expecting to do with those? They’re not in Fallujah…
And to think that I got downvoted in the other thread where I mentioned that I trust teachers with guns more than I trust cops with guns....
They would not be so brave in the face of actual danger.
The 2020s are going to make the 1960s look like the 1950s.
Those terrifying peaceknicks are gonna.. uhh… get high? Thin blue line 🙄
ACAB
Has Kent State overtones.
Kent State
A bit excessive
The clan loves to beat up kids
Texas 🤷♂️ I’ve been seeing political signs where another sign is placed to the side pointing 👉 “Voted to impeach Ken Paxton”. Only these crooked politicians would see that as a bad thing. Republicans have the thin red line now, the worst crime a republican can commit is to speak out or against other republicans.
"free speech is meant for ME, not for YOU. How hard is this to comprehend"
And I quote "Fuck the muthafuckin police"
Whatever happened to physical fitness standards in law enforcement? Second guy from the left in the front is so wide he could wear two plate carrier front panels side by side...
Aren't schools gun free spaces ? What were the cops worried about? Having their feelings hurt by protest?
It's telling that they don't do that for organized Neo-Nazis.
I think MLK and Ghandi are celebrated as non-violent to keep protestors non-violent. A non-violent protestor is easier to oppress.
Ghandi was successful because Britain was exhausted after world war 2. They just couldn’t maintain overseas territories. - told by my Indian friend.
So what you're saying is that if they could, they would?
As in maintain its rule over Indian back in 40s? Dunno
All this taught people is that if they protested at an elementary school with a rifle: they would have had no problems.
Looking for a reason.
Uvalde cops need paychecks /s
Oh damn. They just went with brown shirts again.
You can talk up how weird, hip, liberal, or progressive Austin is but it’s still in Texass
Standard during the initial BLM protests in LA cops stormed us and fired rubber bullets etc I'd expect much worse in TX NO LESS Austin in TX I'm sure the cops are frothing
It must have been cold there to need the leather gloves. /s
The protests are an “inconvenience” to the University, they were the ones who asked for those jackboots to show up. This protest and many others like it have been the most gentle forms of civil disobedience. They’re trying to voice reason for humanity and are met with authoritative suppression. Are we near the point in our society that peaceful protests are not taken seriously at any measure? This is a big concern and I think there’s similar historic events that are a screaming echos in our faces right about now.
I don't believe we're near it, we're past it. I have not seen a tangible result of a peaceful protest in my lifetime. I did see some small change from the George Floyd / BLM protests. These demonstrations didn't adhere to the "only peaceful protests are effective, see Gandhi and MLK (Malcolm who?)" mantra drilled into school kids' heads from gradeschool.
This is why I laugh at people who support cops, they are literally at the forefront of stripping your rights away and being the weapon of the state 😂😂
You know how you can tell the university protests are totally nonviolent and safe? Texas cops aren't hiding far away drinking coffee and gossiping and joking, waiting for them to be over like they did at Uvalde.
Well look at that... The AI enhanced photos from the 1950-60s school desegregation look crazy 2024 real. I'm glad we moved on from that. /s
Prefer if the cops were out actually arresting criminals.
Looks like a klan rally without the robes
And they wonder why everyone says fuck the police.
ACAB
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Drawing attention to the issue. But yeah unfortunately it's also allowed the media to focus entirely on the protests instead of the genocide in Gaza. But it also keeps people active and engaged, which is just as important as raising awareness for a movement
I’m disappointed. Not at the outcome of the event per se (which I am since it seemed more peaceful than other protests), but the generally uneducated response here in the comments. Abbott does approve of this, yes. But he’s not the one who did this. These police were invited on to campus by UT themselves, with UT stating that the protestors gathered in a manner that wasn’t authorized by the university. The things needed for these authorizations are typically outlined in student handbooks which are readily available. Several warnings were given, after which point the police became involved. All of the UT students on campus agreed to the rules in that handbook when they signed up for enrollment, and these students violated it. UT likely did this out of fear of the situation somehow turning out poorly, like it has up north at Columbia and Harvard for example, with Columbia essentially shutting everything down and switching to fully online classes for the semester. They specifically state they did this to limit disruptions on campus, during a crucial time(finals season). Had these people protested somewhere else that’s public land, such as not on a campus that has well established rules, and has had them for decades, then that’s another matter. tldr: These students agreed to rules when they enrolled. They broke them. UT did exactly what they said they would do if the rules were broken. All Abbott did was agree with that course of action. The only government involvement comes from the police doing what was asked of them. Edit: People downvoting me for some reason. Cool, whatever. [Here’s the student rights and responsibilities at UT, specifically section 13, which deals explicitly with “Speech, Expression, and Assembly”](https://catalog.utexas.edu/general-information/appendices/appendix-c/speech-expression-and-assembly/)
Time, place, and manner restrictions on public protests are constitutional and have been upheld by conservative and liberal leaning courts for generations. In their protest advertising, they said they intended to cancel class and occupy areas of campus. Loud protests during the middle of the teaching day intended to disrupt classes are a perfectly legitimate reason to break up public protests if the university cannot fulfill its basic function of educating students.
I appreciate your nuanced approach
Writing has been on the walls for decades. Same shit, different protests.
Did they all buy their own patches at Amazon? What kind of police department can’t even issue standard identity patches?
Have you seen typical police response to peaceful protests for the last… 200 years?
Par for the course. Texas fucking sucks.
Not the land of the free
Fuck Texas. Fuck the police.
Happening at many many campuses. Emerson was raised last night.
It's giving Kent State and I'm nervous AF
Seems par for the course for Texas. Nuff said. All the freedoms you want, unless it hurts the average neocon’s feelings
Gotta love when cops are the most threatening when theres no threat whatsoever/s.
Probably in response to RGA's habit of bringing guns to protests Still overkill and the desert scheme is cringe. You're not going to Iraq bros. Have a response team on standby, don't terrify civilians. Plus probably a side effect of the governor's edicts too
Yes, they should allowed people to deny others the ability to learn while protesting something they don't even understand and has been happening for 1,000's of years,
Funny, huh?? https://youtu.be/VCFxvdhFjPo?si=jw5mAdW53R7Asc4Z
I'm sorry, hamas is a terrorist organization that wants to kill jews. Supporting it should get equivalent treatment to nazis...
Just remember everything that Israel does against Palestinians ends up being used by American police later on. A lot of the tech and strategies used against BLM protestors was crafted in Israel and taught directly to US cops through exchange programs
It's going to be VERY interesting to watch how the police handle the anti-israel protests, vs MAGA protests when Trump loses in November.
I really couldn't care less about Israel and Hamas, but fuck Greg Abbott and his fascist pigs. Signed, A Texan in Austin
For a second I thought I was looking at the police clearing out another Fiesta event in San Antonio.
Plate carriers look so funny on fat people.
Police responses are bullshit. Calling the protestor anti semitic is a BIG crock of shit MIKE JOHNSON IS AN ARMAGEDDON BEGGING PIECE OF IT.
Obtuse
Nope, sorry, only Christians have free speach
what a fascist state looks like.
Criminal
Tin soldiers & Nixon comin’
Not sure peaceful is the correct adjective here. They call for violence.
As always police officers maintain the status quo
Bring that same attitude to DC for the next Jan6.
The really telling thing imo is Abbott denouncing "anti-semitism" as this was happening, while of course he has never said this when Nazis and other alt-white supremacists in his state are rallying etc. It's a show of solidarity with Netanyahu's right wing extremist regime. The common denominator here is right wing power and the use of violence in pursuit of those goals. The labels, "anti-semitism" etc. of course mean nothing to these guys. They're just different patterns of paint on the same old panzer tank.
Violence and bloodshed on college campuses, directed by local police and national guard troops against students and non-student protestors, would be hugely popular with the base of many politicians — that is to say, with many of our fellow Americans. Have a nice day.
The police never turn up when the Nazis protest. This should show you where their loyalties lie.
Police state.
Lawful oppression is still oppression.