The french gendarmerie recently received a new vehicle, it's a tank equipped with a machine gun and 40mm grenade launcher. They're deployed in our colony, Caledonia, to enforce an apartheid. They were also used against ecology protesters recently. Last year, a racist cop murdering a kip sparked revolts, anti-terorism units were deployed and shot kids with 12 gauge shotguns. It's not just america, the rich and powerful are at war with the people everywhere.

I'm an Indiana University alum and my dad was a professor there. During the protests there, they had a fucking sniper on the roof. The protests were in a park next to the student union which had been used for protests since the Vietnam War. I was there in middle school in a shanty that was protesting the 1990s Gulf War. Now the new semester has started and there's a chain link fence around the whole thing.

The president just got a raise.

Makes me fucking sick.

Here's the sniper:

I used to climb up to that roof where that sniper is with friends when I was in high school to smoke weed, so that was a trip to see.

And to think that you guys pay to be there. Imagine loading yourself with massive student debt for a place that stocks up on weapons as if its at war with you.

They are right. I can't wrap my head around it.

European here. "Pepper munitions" aren't military weaponry as they're banned for use in war by the Chemical Weapons Convention. This all reads like riot control stuff. The only weird thing is that american universities have their own police departments.

Guess campus protests require AR-15s now. If the cops don't like it they're free to cut the shit.

Americans live in one of the police states of all time. Capitalism can only produce this result, there is no alternative, because the ruling class knows just as well as the socialists do that the contradictions will only keep getting worse and the protests will only keep getting bigger but of course instead of wanting to change the equation to produce a different result like the socialists do the capitalists want to cling to power by any means necessary.

LRAD is some fucked up shit, btw. (Part of the large family of sonic weapons)

An LRAD can thus emit a targeted "beam" of sound at very high volume, up to 160 dB at one meter from the device. This is louder than standing behind a jet engine taking off, or a nearby gunshot.[2]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_acoustic_device

How is a private entity allowed to buy military grade weaponry to use against their students?

Oh right... 'Merica. You guys have a problem with weapons, a problem no civilized country has. But then again, we're not talking about a civilized country but a capitalism ruled country.

"to escalate its warfare on its students"

Yep, my mind doesn't understand this phrase at all.

All paid by every increasing tuition

Not American so not up to speed on what’s going on…

Are these students that are protesting doing it with tanks, machine guns, grenades, planes? Are they being at all non-peaceful? Has anyone been killed?

Aren’t they protesting about the arms supplied to Israel and being used against Gazans?

"American universities turn into concentration camps" was not on my bingo card for 2024.

All protests should be armed protests.

By the way for those that think they're gonna use actual grenades on children, they're just foam "fordy mike mikes" (40mm) that are designed to fit in a grenade launcher. Pepper balls are similar to pepper spray (but iirc it's a bit stronger)

doesn't make it better lol

UC Merced annual training required only 7 rounds, while UC San Francisco used 7000 and UC Santa Barbara used 9000 🤔

Shoutout to UC Davis for having the only police department on the list who "did not use any military equipment during this timeframe".

For some reason the linked PDF varies from the screenshot in several ways, though most of the numbers are the same. (UC Riverside's number of rounds of .556-range ammunition used in training is 3000 in the screenshot but 6000 in the PDF now.)

I was curious how much this launcher costs:

... over here I see this glorified paintball gun is normally $2400 but currently on sale for just $1850.

Insanity

Fucking excuse me?

excuse me wtf

RIP to all of the Freshmen.