One example, from just up the Ivy-garlanded I-95, at Brown University, was announced just hours before Shafik again called in the police. Brown’s governing body agreed to vote on a proposal that would divest the school’s endowment of companies affiliated with Israel in a meeting in October. The proposal is based on a 2020 Advisory Committee on Corporation Responsibility in Investment Practices that identified and recommended divestment from “companies that facilitate the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory,” per the Brown Daily Herald.
In exchange, the university’s nonviolent student protesters agreed to vacate their encampment by 5 p.m. that afternoon.
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Another plausible outcome from California: When a similar encampment went up a few days ago at the University of California, Irvine, it seemed likely that police might sweep the protesters away. Orange County sheriff’s deputies began to appear in riot gear near the protest.
But, rather than traffic in vague allegations of misconduct before hiding behind a belligerent mayor and an aggressive police force, like Shafik, the UC–Irvine administration took a much different tack. “UC Irvine respects the rights of any students to engage in free speech and expression including lawful protest,” the school said in a prepared statement. This, remember, is at a public school, where keeping public police forces away is more challenging than a private enclave like Columbia.
And in fact, Irvine’s mayor did get involved in the action. Not long after that, Mayor Farrah N. Khan issued a resounding statement declaring that she would not tolerate any violation of students’ free speech or right to assembly. “I am asking our law enforcement to stand down. I will not tolerate any violations to our students’ rights to peacefully assemble and protest.” She asked the deputies to leave, and they did.
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Cops love to beat up people protesting genocide but they won’t run into a classroom of kids being murdered because they’re too afraid.
Well that's obviously because one group is preaching no violence and one is shooting everyone and everything.
So of course the police attack the easier target.
so we need to shoot guns to be listened to, ok got it.
South Park called it a while ago
https://youtu.be/8TMHIYDHMSE?si=uI61IjEFMcmaxi31
Maybe the solution is to have peaceful armed demonstrators 🤔
It's worked in the past. Force is the only language that bullies and thugs understand. "Moral high ground" isn't going to do it when the state can just shoot you and get away with it.
Worked for the Black Panthers
Well... right up until it didn't.
But I can't help thinking a parade of armed college students marching through the quad could change a lot of views on the 2A very quickly.
Seeing as we still have capitalism and racism I wouldn't quite say it worked, but yeah it made people take them more seriously and we would do well to study how exactly it failed
Can't help but wonder what would happen if Columbia's students were armed.
I know there's a guy who said something about this once, a long time ago. German fellow with a big beard. Wrote a few economics texts. Gah, it escapes me.
There hasn’t been a school shooting in NYC in decades. Kids know the NYPD is not afraid to shoot them. They’re bullies with badges.
Police increases presence near Manhattan schools in wake of 3 recent shootings
~ Wednesday, March 15, 2023
I wonder why the city didn’t classify them as school shootings. Maybe it’s different because they were gang related shootings outside of schools and not armed assailants entering a school and killing indiscriminately?
Apparently not Phili cops.
Oh brother, here we go... let us know when you're going to join your local police department and show those cops how it's supposed to be done!
They won't accept people above a certain IQ or those who are level headed.
Pigs. No thanks.
Then just sit there and enjoy your life tough guy. There's people literally dying to be part of this country... you're part of this "cops suck" movement who have no idea just how good you have it.
The "how good you have it" part could be taken away in seconds if you look at a cop wrong. Cops need to be level headed and not trigger happy. It should be a disqualification if the first reaction to any situation is to pull the trigger on your gun.
Oh I know. I also am surrounded by racist pigs in family and ex cop coworkers. They’re all cunts. Fuck most cops.