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Edit: Name of University fixed.

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[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 36 points 6 months ago

Can someone OOTL this for me? What's going on in Texas?

[-] theparadox@lemmy.world 88 points 6 months ago

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

[-] okamiueru@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

What do they need the riot police for?

[-] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 55 points 6 months ago

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

[-] DerArzt@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago

And then trying to wipe it off the internet.

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] troglodytis@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

They tried to scrub that. Silly humans

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 53 points 6 months ago

Violently suppressing peaceful protestors is my guess.

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 33 points 6 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?!?

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

It's hard to crack down on dissent without them.

[-] graymess@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Great question.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

[-] scoobford@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 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.

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 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

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