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US National Guard attacking anti-war protesters, Kent State Massacre, 1970 (media.piefed.social)
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[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

From Wikipedia, in the ACAB vein:

Eight of the shooters were charged with depriving the students of their civil rights, but were acquitted in a bench trial.

A lot of interesting/horrifying details about the lead up and shooting. Including "Hynde described what she saw:

Then I heard the tatatatatatatatatat sound. I thought it was fireworks. An eerie sound fell over the common. The quiet felt like gravity pulling us to the ground. Then a young man's voice: "They fucking killed somebody!" Everything slowed down and the silence got heavier.

The ROTC building, now nothing more than a few inches of charcoal, was surrounded by National Guardsmen. They were all on one knee and pointing their rifles at ... us! Then they fired.

By the time I made my way to where I could see them, it was still unclear what was going on. The guardsmen themselves looked stunned. We looked at them and they looked at us. They were just kids, 19 years old, like us. But in uniform. Like our boys in Vietnam.

And John Filo's Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the dead body of Jeffrey Miller minutes after the unarmed student was fatally shot by an Ohio National Guardsman: