• psvrh@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Boy, it’s amazing how responsive they are in when it’s a bunch of students protesting war crimes, as opposed to a bunch of students cowering in classrooms trying to avoid getting shot.

  • SteefLem@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Aaahh look at these adorable wanna be somethings. Heros that ran in to a school when there was an active shooter killing little kids, look how proud they stand not shitting there pants because now there are no guns fireing. Quick throw an acorn….

  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    You can have anything you want At Alice’s restaurant

    But if you mention Israel in a negative way, believe it or not, jail.

  • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
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    6 months ago

    It should be noted these are State Troopers, who basically follow Abbott’s orders these days, and are always itching to put on a show for the cameras, eg the one above. APD and UTPD don’t seem to be involved in this.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Texas cops at an elementary school shooting: “Someone is armed and shooting! Imma stay hidden.”

    Texas cops at a peaceful, unarmed protest against genocide: “These boots were made for stomping, and that’s just what they’ll do.”

    • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      It makes sense, the protestors were clear and honest about their non-violent intentions, which is perfect as a target of oppression. They don’t get any warning for real crimes like school shootings so there’s nothing they can do, too bad.

      • psvrh@lemmy.ca
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        6 months ago

        The problem is that all this does is encourage protesters to come armed the next time.

        • NovaPrime@lemmy.ml
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          6 months ago

          As they should. Police have shown their hand time and time again. Peaceful marchers and protesters get beaten, sprayed, and generally abused without consequence. Armed protesters, even those who go full on violent, are left alone and watched from a distance.

        • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          Reposting this because it’s relevant here too: A scenario like this is what led to the formation of the Black Panthers during the civil rights era, and subsequently led to gun control laws being started by republicans. During the civil rights protests, people quickly realized that peaceful protests were violently broken. But heavily armed peaceful protests had police nervously watching from across the street.

          Because police had no qualms about firing into an unarmed crowd to get people to disperse. But when the entire crowd is armed to the teeth and can immediately return fire, the police are suddenly okay with watching from afar. This was the start of the Black Panthers; a group who organized heavily armed protests.

          When conservative lawmakers saw a bunch of heavily armed black people (and allies) on their front steps, and saw the police unwilling to break the protests, those conservative lawmakers got really fucking sweaty. So instead, they gave the police tools to arrest individual protestors. The Mulford Act was drafted and quickly passed. At the time, it was the most restrictive gun control law the country had ever seen. It was written by Ronald Reagan (yes, the same Ronald Reagan that the right uplifts as a paragon of conservative values,) and was supported by the NRA, (yes, the same NRA that lobbies for looser gun control laws in the wakes of school shootings.)

          This gave the police the power to arrest individual protestors after the fact. Instead of firing into the crowd to disperse the protest, they would wait for the protest to end, follow the protestors home, then kick in their front doors while they were having dinner with their families. (Remember all of the “don’t bring your cell phone to protests because police will arrest you a week or two later if your phone was pinged nearby” messaging during the pandemic protests? Yeah…)

          This led to the Black Panthers diving underground. They realized what was happening after protests, so they took efforts to guard their members’ identities. They pulled tactics straight out of anti-espionage textbooks. Randomized meeting places, so police couldn’t set up stings ahead of time. Code names, so arrested members couldn’t rat even if they wanted to. Fragmented info, so no one person (even the leaders) could take down the entire operation if busted. Coded messages. Dead drops. Et cetera, et cetera…

          We’re on a rocket trajectory straight down that same pipeline now.

  • PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Seems like the perfect time to pull the rug out and switch locations to protest at City Hall. Fuck these RoboCop clowns.