Edit: Name of University fixed.

    • jkrtn@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

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

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          8 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.

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      8 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?!?

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        8 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.

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      8 months ago

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

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      8 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.

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      8 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