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Riot cops line up next to a sign at University of Texas at Austin. (slrpnk.net)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/texas
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[–] theparadox 88 points 7 months ago (1 children)

More arrests of college students walking out of class and peacefully protesting the situation in Gaza. This time UT Austin.

[–] okamiueru 23 points 7 months ago (10 children)

What do they need the riot police for?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] DerArzt 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And then trying to wipe it off the internet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] troglodytis 2 points 7 months ago

They tried to scrub that. Silly humans

[–] Passerby6497 53 points 7 months ago

Violently suppressing peaceful protestors is my guess.

[–] frunch 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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?!?

[–] RizzRustbolt 8 points 7 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.

[–] masquenox 14 points 7 months ago

It's hard to crack down on dissent without them.

[–] graymess 14 points 7 months ago

Great question.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 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.

[–] Aceticon 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Terrorism. Literally all riot police ever do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 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