But I thought fascism was only going to happen if Trump is elected? Guess it’s already here, now what do we do??
The right to free speech and peaceful protest, what a funny joke.
Hey now, don't go spreading misinformation.
You can still have protests and not get attacked by cops; it just has to be a neo-nazi protest.
The cops will still be there, though not officially on duty
I just feel the need to tell OP that they are appreciated for posting this, as well as their work in the comments section. Thanks.
Campus protests are close to my heart.
And not a single one of the articles OP posted refer to these as anti-genocide protests.
Every media outlet who keeps framing this as students supporting Palestine or opposing Israel is burying the lede, that these students wouldn’t be supporting or opposing anything if there wasn’t a fucking genocide.
Thats why after years of tiktok bans being non starters the shit suddenly happened in like a week - its the only platform they can't bully into censoring any mention of genocide.
People should really start linking images directly, or at least link to screenshots of that site instead of linking directly to it. I can't view this, and I won't bother if it's on that site.
That is actually insane, holy shit.
The notorious land of the freedom.
I'm a Columbia alum. Thank you op for continuing to bring this story and similar ones from all over the country to Lemmy. Hats off to The Spec for still covering the situation on campus. Shefik somehow hasn't tried shutting them down just yet.
I'm still shocked to think NYPD was actually brought into South Lawn. Even there police chief said everyone was peaceful and they were only there because the president called them in.
Lol the OP missed the biggest part: journalists are being locked up for daring to photograph this shit
The more totalitarian a government is, the more the police become henchmen of the leaders.
The police have ever been henchmen of the capitalist class that has ever ruled this country. Their core purpose is to protect the capitalists’ private property—historically including chattel slaves—and to discipline labor.
Now that we’ve reached imperialism, the monopoly stage of capitalism, the police are brutalizing anyone who stands between the capitalists and their imperial interests, in this case their interests in West Asia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_brutality#History
Early records suggest that labor strikes were the first large-scale incidents of police brutality in the United States, including events like the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, the Pullman Strike of 1894, the 1912 Lawrence textile strike, the Ludlow massacre of 1914, the Great Steel Strike of 1919, and the Hanapepe massacre of 1924.
The racist roots of American policing: From slave patrols to traffic stops
TL;DR: ACAB
Kinda wild how the system keeps legions of thugs on-call, nationwide, that can be assembled at a moment's notice to inflict legal violence on whatever the target population is
NYU sending this to students they called the cops on apparently
PSC CUNY - Union representing CUNY staff and faculty
Why is this escalating so much faster than the 1989 Chinese democracy protests or the 2019 Hong Kong protests? In those cases, it took weeks for arrests to happen and months for force to be deployed. Most law enforcement in those cases were unarmed.
Because Chinese police and military exist for different reasons than US police and military
This is happening under Biden. There's a reason why bluemaga isn't calling Trump a fascist anymore.
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