Shafik authorizes NYPD to sweep ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment,’ officers in riot gear arrest over 100

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.

Just had explosive interaction w/ @Columbia’s heightened security coming onto campus. They followed me to my office & then lied, saying I didn’t scan my ID for entry (I did) & I pushed an officer (I didn’t). An ugly scene followed. They did this to me, a tenured, full professor.

Dozens arrested at Yale University pro-Palestinian protest

Columbia University: Ilhan Omar's daughter suspended and 108 arrested for Gaza protest

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.

More tents pop up at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in protest of war in Gaza

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.

More than 100 protesters arrested as police clear Emerson College encampment

Police allegedly use rubber bullets and teargas at university protest in Georgia

Hundreds at Harvard Protest Suspension of Pro-Palestinian Group

Indian-origin student at Princeton arrested, barred from varsity for taking part in anti-Israel protests on campus

UT-Austin students hold pro-Palestinian protest; at least 50 arrested

USC imposes campus restrictions after nearly 100 arrested during pro-Palestinian protest

Sniper on the roof of the Indiana Memorial Union at Indiana University. Gun pointed down at peaceful Gaza protesters in Dunn Meadow. This is 4 hours after the arrest of 22 students and 2 professors in the meadow. Have never seen anything like this on this campus.

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.

FOX 7 Austin photographer among dozens arrested at pro-Palestinian protest at UT campus

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

The more totalitarian a government is, the more the police become henchmen of the leaders.

I have disabled students participating in the peaceful encampment/protests @UConn. When cops arrived they put hands on one of my disabled students & dislocated their shoulder. This student is still there, but injured. If @uconn says there are no injuries, that is a lie.

About three dozen pro-Palestine protesters arrested at Ohio State

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

Cornell University has temporary suspended me alongside 3 other students/grad workers. They have deliberately targeted students with precarious positions such as visa status. They have given me a grace period but I am no longer permitted on campus. I know they have done this as a means of bringing down the encampment. The university has acted in extremely bad faith and refused to engage in any form of dialogue about our demands. It is clear that they are more concerned with appeasing their Zionist donors and keeping their hands drenched in blood than over the expressed refusal of their students and workers. I’m okay and please don’t stop talking about Palestine.

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.