Shafik authorizes NYPD to sweep ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment,’ officers in riot gear arrest over 100
Shafik authorizes NYPD to sweep ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment,’ officers in riot gear arrest over 100
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
Some of those that work forces...
So ACAB, and we are a country with stupidly low quality of freedom despite the morons who just think guns=freedom, and fuck this was a BS move.
However, the Constitution states only that the government will not pass laws that interfere with freedom of assembly. Courts have decided that this includes protests, picketing, labor strikes, etc.
Courts have also concluded that this doesn't mean you can assemble wherever you want, namely on private property. These students were essentially just trespassed by the university. Can't really blame the policeor government for this one, unless you want to lean more extreme that they should be saying "fuck off, we disagree". But I'd rather have a system where the police follow the law because I don't trust any of them to make any good decisions on their own morals.
The chief even came out with a statement that was a dig at the university president that he only observed peaceful protest, not the bullshit she was claiming.
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.
Understandable.
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
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.
NYU sending this to students they called the cops on apparently
PSC CUNY - Union representing CUNY staff and faculty
USA is a fascist state.
Technically it's a federation of fascist states.
good point
Reasonably sure this is what the 2nd Amendment is for.
For real though, if the protesters all showed up open carrying rifles the cops would just stand back and watch.
Eh, not quite what I was going for.
This is the tyranny that an armed populace is supposed to be protection from.
But thinking about it, an armed protest would be among the first steps.
This is happening under Biden. There's a reason why bluemaga isn't calling Trump a fascist anymore.
Someone please post this on lemmy.world, I want to see their reaction.
Looks like a lot of worlders are already in this comment section.
They would melt.
The hell does a civil request for trespass have to do with Biden?
Let me get this straight. Public universities (including the University of Minnesota, UT Austin, and others) are private property, despite receiving billions in government funding?
They're not even trying to deny the fascism any more.
Why is the biden regime cracking down on students protesting biden's massive funding of palestinian genocide?
Fascists gotta protect genocide, after all.
First they came for the students, and we said "fuck them"
The lack of justice system reforms across the nation is the 1% telling us the George floydd protests didn't go far enough.
…am I the only one who misread ‘NYPD’ as ‘NSDAP’?
misread
I don't have anything to add, but I wanted to thank you, OP, for the comments/links in the thread.
America trying to reach the same level of Nazism as israel. Bidolf Hitler is on the case.
But I thought fascism was only going to happen if Trump is elected? Guess it’s already here, now what do we do??
I know!
let's not vote and get trump elected so that instead of just being arrested, these people are shipped off to a gulag.
That will fix everything!
I think you need a literal rebellion to get the change you want. Glad I don't live there, watching America decay is something else.
They act like this is new. Were trying to keep it from devolving further.
This isn't fascism. These people will get a slap on the wrist and be sent home in a day or two. Under fascism these people would never be heard from again.
So punishing free speech and protest is not fascist provided that they are "only" in jail for a couple of days? Seriously?
Obviously cracking down on protests doesn't mean it's 1930s Germany but it's part of the same playbook, surely?
This is fascism-lite. Just because people aren't disappeared doesn't mean it's not in the same category. And the only way we can hope to stop from getting to "actual" fascism is by resisting shit like this.
Boot licker