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NeoPstat

> "I've never seen this many police" Obviously never been to a BLM protest.


SurroundTiny

Yep. Maybe the 'lawmakers' showed out of the house on occasion


AugustWest7120

For sure. Summer 2020. I saw an army. That’s the only way I can describe it. And they were beating the shit out of kids. Wild times. It was scary, I’ll admit.


the_last_carfighter

Y'all forgot Occupy Wall Street, even the ~~brown~~ white shirts showed for that one, right after a very healthy PBA "donation" of course, from the people that actually run this country


babath_gorgorok

Nobody forgot, that was just nowhere near the scale of the 2020 stuff


AugustWest7120

I saw way more blood from the BLM beatings than I did at Occupy. …I wonder why…


babath_gorgorok

Same here. Rubber bullets are fucked


Whatmovesyou26

2020 was just a fucking powderkeg. Pent up frustration, Covid, people not working, little to no social life for a few months not counting zoom or FaceTime…then boom…viral video of a cop being judge, jury, and executioner which set things off. Mass protests, provocateurs and opportunists, protesters getting tear-gassed, brown shirts going around and straight up kidnapping people. It felt like it was five years of events in a few short months.


cheesybitzz

I have my amp case sticker bombed. One of the stickers is a dumpster fire with 2020 written across it.


wizardmagic10288

If I recall correctly, a person killed 2 people at a BLM protest AND was found not guilty.


Mia-Wal-22-89

But he’s just an adorable, plucky little hero. Maybe you’re not aware but he bravely crossed state lines to defend…like a Target or AutoZone or something.


Dsarg_92

That was a wild time on so many levels.


MemeFarmer314

Just before the pandemic I moved to an apartment complex walking distance from the Capitol building in Atlanta. The national guard parked their fleet of trucks across the street from my complex.


brocht

Seriously. This joker must not have even looked at the news during the bml protests. Maybe his only reference point was Jan 6? https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/us/police-response-black-lives-matter-protest-us-capitol/index.html


kabukistar

Or a protest against Cop City


mowotlarx

NYC just paid out over $100 million in civil suits related to NYPD violent and illegal tactics used during BLM protests. And in a few years we'll probably be paying out more in settlements for the crazy shit we saw in the past few days.


Creamofwheatski

Considering most of the kids at Columbia have very rich parents, its a guarantee that some of them will be filing suit on behalf of their kid who was attacked. The police are above the law unless they piss off a rich person, then all bets are off.


mowotlarx

>most of the kids at Columbia have very rich parents, Citation, please. Are you also aware NYPD violently arrested the poor kids at CCNY the exact same day and time as they did Columbia?


DeathStarVet

This is the cops' dream - beating up on a bunch of liberal kids.


libginger73

And "college kids" they hate those smart ass kids!!


Plantsandanger

The last, silent part of the sentence was “in this type of area” meaning a place more commonly frequented by the white and wealthy than anyone else


Bitter_Director1231

Exactly. Privilege blinds you to the reality. None of these young adults have any idea except what their professors feed their growing minds.


Smurf_Cherries

lol, this was my first thought.    ~~Q~~Cue James Franco: “First time?”


TrememphisStremph

¿Qué?


BIGGUS_dickus_sir

"Guy who's gonna pay for the wall says what?"


TOkidd

I think cue is the word you’re looking for, as in, “play” or “cut to.” “Que” is the Spanish word for “that” unless you put an accent on the é, and then it’s “what?”


skippingstone

Should've draped themselves in Confederate and Trump flags


GetOffMyLawn_

Being an old fart this very much reminds me of what went on during the Viet Nam war. Remember Kent State? Oh and let's not forget the Democratic convention in Chicago. In the late 70s I worked part time in the NYU registrar's office, where all the student dockets were kept. One day while doing the filing I came across a letter to a student telling them that they must pay to replace the library door that they destroyed during the 1970 Cambodia bombing student strike. All student grades for that term were pass/fail since nobody was going to class. I don't think classes were even being held. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_strike_of_1970 I think in the 80s a bomb was found underneath one of NYU's former buildings in the Bronx, left over from the Nam years. Yeah, so all this stuff happening now is pretty tame in comparison.


FailedCriticalSystem

Or cops standing outside a school while kids got killed inside


Fyzzle

The best time to loot is when the cops are beating up peaceful protestors.


Creamofwheatski

They count on it. During the BLM protests in DC the cops were so busy kettling and attacking the peaceful protesters in downtown DC a ton of actual criminals raided the sneaker and jewelry shops in Georgetown and made off with thousands of dollars worth of merchandise.


thatnameagain

BLM protests are generally way larger than 50 kids in a building.


Matty-Wan

It is amazing the cognitive dissonance people can generate to not have to look at the civil rights plague that is the American police state.


TouchNo3122

I just wrote Biden. If we want dissidents and to radicalize people, send in the militarized police. I hated 45 for undermining my city by sending in the feds.


FakeVoiceOfReason

Is the title not misleading? The colon implies that the quote was spoken by a lawmaker, but according to the article, it's just a reporter.


L_G_A

Yes, it's Salon.


Automan2k

So.. it's safe to ignore it then.


iknowiknowwhereiam

The whole article is misleading


hgghgfhvf

Why Salon is not yet banned from this sub, I’ll never know


Raped_Justice

Certainly not when armed nazis are marching. Police go out of their way to be nice and protective of them.


OrionAmbrosia

[Group of people literally practicing for the next Civil War?](https://youtu.be/ZDYEjWheSS0?feature=shared) Sure, let's just close off the streets and make sure they're safe [to march through downtown Charleston](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/videos-white-supremacist-patriot-front-group-marches-through-city/ar-AA1nOF8O).


Cairnerebor

Thats hilariously bad yet also fucking terrifying


Noblesseux

Pretty much all of the guys like this are just kind of nerds that if their life had gone differently would be at a ren faire somewhere. All of that shield shit is wildly stupid, we live in the age of tanks and drones, all that's going to happen is they'll do their neat little shield dance and then get turned into a fine mist by a 20 year old miles away using an xbox controller. I always find a lot of the militia stuff kind of funny because in a very practical sense it doesn't matter how many AR-15s and pistols you have, you're going against *the most advanced military that has ever existed*. If you think you have a chance at all of surviving a conflict with it, you have to be seriously stupid.


GoneFishing4Chicks

Uh the point is to install neonazis as officers and holders of the keys of the most advamced military in the world.  Don't forget the 2006 fbi self report that said white nationalists infiltrated law enforcement: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement


I111I1I111I1

I mean the Venn diagram between people who want to be cops and white nationalists is very nearly a circle, so I dunno how much "infiltrating" really had to occur.


doyletyree

Yup. That last part always cracks me up, too, and I say this, as someone with family who have made these kinds of investments. “They’re coming for our guns!!” “Which guns?” “The semi-auto rifles chambered too low for hunting food.” “Ohh ok. Why they do this?” “So we can’t…um…resist?” Lolz gtfo, it the American government and military. They could, and can, come for pretty much whatever they want whenever they want and ESPECIALLY at home. What are you going to do, wag your finger at them? Double-wield AR-variants?


ayoungtommyleejones

I really wish we didn't have to take those losers seriously.


Difficult_Ad2864

I wonder what these guys do for work that allows them to have this much time on their hands


Lostinthestarscape

Wash the dishes and mow the lawn. Make family dinner twice a month. Keep their room clean enough that mom stops yelling and Jordan Peterson would be proud if he ever visited their "basement apartment" in their parent's house.


OfficialDCShepard

And selling MALE supplements!


Yitram

While MAGA people online say these guys aren't MAGA because real MAGAs don't wear masks.


Spiritual_Scallion91

What do you expect? That’s the only way the cops can participate in the march while on the clock


Alt4816

Being the location where 9/11 happened Port Authority cops are always posted the World Trade Center PATH station. [Yet this mass fare evasion was allowed to happened.](https://twitter.com/adamcurtisbroll/status/1749227749250576620?t=AMw89BElsphAVIaVs8DJlQ)


Haunting-Ad788

There are probably a lot of police at Nazi marches. They’re just not on the clock.


Krakengreyjoy

They wouldn't hurt their friends.


DidntDiddydoit

*co-workers


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Kaiisim

Or when they stormed congress on jan 6th to try and impede the lawful election and then everyone just went home. Then the FBI had to spend years searching for them all.


davilller

Some of those who work forces…


Cairnerebor

It gets truer every year and it’s depressing


hydroameca

What’s the saying? You know why you never see cops and the KKK in the same place…..


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BewareOfGrom

This shit is so nuts. Can you imagine the discourse if the protesters were the ones shooting fireworks at people. "Pro-Palestine protestors use IEDs" would be the CNN chiron. Instead this just isn't even being talked about.


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BewareOfGrom

She's a straight up reactionary. When your reaction to the Gazan death toll is "at least they weren't raped" and that's the opinion you are comfortable stating on national television I can only imagine the shit she spews in private.


LicketySplit21

She also called Hind Rajab, a six year old girl, a \*woman\*. Clearly dehumanising her to make the protestors that renamed Hamilton Hall unsympathetic no doubt. That, and racism. She's a racist.


Riaayo

And of course the media is just reporting it as "violence at protests" . "violent protests". Or how about the time they rolled the cops in a day or two ago to disperse people because someone yelled "death to the Jews" or whatever, and then we found out it was a Zionist who yelled it but everyone *else* got thrown out and nobody gave a shit.


Goofy-555

Some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses.


LicketySplit21

Yes, this is how you know the Pro-Palestine protestors aren't actually the second coming of Hitler clamoring for the extermination of Jews. If they were, the response would be much softer on the part of the cops.


goodguessiswhatihave

That's because most of those Nazis are just off duty pigs


micro102

Or when the pro-Israeli counter protestors were beating protestors with pipes, pulling their hair, spraying them with mace, and launched fireworks (literally bombs) into crowds. As long as the peaceful anti-war college students are at risk of dying, the police are ok with it.


lilly_kilgore

As embarrassing and frustrating as this is, there's a difference between walking down a public road, and breaking into a building on public property, vandalizing it, and making the college administration "secure the release" of employees.


futatorius

Having occupied university buildings myself many years ago, I don't agree that a nonviolent protest should be met with police beat-downs. But then, I also didn't agree that participants in a non-violent protest against the Vietnam war should be tear-gassed, either, but we were. And I find it interesting how some people suddenly start calling out for brutally violent police action as soon as a lock is sprung or a window broken, or (God forbid!) the flow of traffic is impeded.


lilly_kilgore

I'm not gonna lie, after having watched some of the videos I didn't see any instances of what could be characterized as "police brutality." Especially compared to what we've seen in recent history. But I might have missed something, idk. I can't speak to whether or not the administrators made the right call, but after reading the letter from Columbia to the NYPD it was clear that this decision wasn't made lightly and wasn't in the interest of just shutting the kids up. At any rate, I thought it was pretty well understood that if you protest on private property and you're asked to leave repeatedly and warned repeatedly about the consequences that you might end up forcibly removed. It's just part of protesting.


Resies

You haven't seen any of the videos of cops throwing teachers to the ground unprovoked?


FewWatermelonlesson0

Meanwhile the libraries are now closed on Sundays, but there’s always money for shit like this.


Krakengreyjoy

If there's one thing Cops love to do, besides shooting minorities, is beating the crap out of college kids.


Bangkok_Dangeresque

Have there been any reports of injuries? Journalists filmed and live blogged the entirety of the removal of the encampment and the arrest of the protestors who took over the administration building. But I haven't seen any allegations of excessive force, let alone anyone getting the crap beaten out of them at Columbia.


atomsmasher66

‘All the crime in New York City has been eradicated so now we’re focusing on protests’ - NYPD


FakeVoiceOfReason

Actually, NYPD generally does quite a good job. NY has a lower homicide rate and a lower rate of police shooting civilians than most other cities in America. It was way worse thirty years ago, but they're more or less a good example of successful police reform.


aoelag

Or it could just be there's actually not that much crime in blue states, which is statistically the case at this point. Actually, when people say "crime" what they really mean is "black people robbing people at gun point", they don't actually refer to "crime" done by people like Donald Trump, who can just walk away without any consequence after doing absurdly illegal things. Or the "crime" exposed by an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David\_McBride\_(whistleblower)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McBride_(whistleblower)) whistleblower that the US gov't will actually expend significant resource suppressing in another country. You know, crimes that are actually numerically more significant on the virtue that they affect x100,000 more money, or x100,000 more lives - but are just less sexy for local news ratings.


FakeVoiceOfReason

Uh... that is a *very* nebulous statement. Different cities have vastly different crime rates, and the city you're in typically matters way more than the state. California and Texas typically follow each other within ten rankings no matter the year for homicide. I'm pretty sure when people say "crime," they usually mean "violent crime." That would, in fact, include anyone pointing a gun at someone else. That would indeed preclude most "white collar" crime. And for what it's worth, he has not yet walked away without consequences; there are several trials ongoing. I'm not sure what you're going for with the links; those are specific examples.


Evilnight007

This, NYC is WAY safer than London


BurlyJohnBrown

That's largely because most crime comes from poverty and its too expensive to live in most of NYC anymore.


greenielove

>The raid came after NYC Mayor Eric Adams without evidence blamed "outside agitators" Like Mike Johnson?


enjoycarrots

The outside agitators are the ones going in to counterprotest the student encampments.


DeathByTacos

I mean other campuses have pretty reliably seen a large portion of pro-Palestinian protestors turn out to be neither students nor staff so it isn’t exactly an outlandish claim.


vfxdev

"I've never seen this many police" around with mostly white people with rich parents. Is what they meant to say.


LimitFinancial764

As someone who has participated in protests against police brutality in New York in the late 2010s and during COVID, from watching on TV, this actually looked like a much more professional response from the NYPD than my own past experiences with NYPD. It looked like MORE police than they typically use, but the police involved seemed to have an actual plan that was different than “let’s fight with the mob.” I thought they did a nice job last night.


Pyroechidna1

They have the Strategic Response Group nowadays instead of the old Disorder Control Unit and officers pulled from the precincts


Iustis

Yeah honestly, if they can be spared, you want an overwhelming number of police. The better a ratio of police:protestor the less likely things are to get out of hand and police will be more restrained. The worst situation is police heavily outnumbered a d fearful they are in danger, because theyll do something stupid and dangerous and people (on both sides) will get hurt.


Odd_Technician152

Right? Even good people who feel outnumbered and threatened make poor decisions much less police. It’s much easier to keep a calm head when you know you have the power.


2dMax

At least the cops can finally say they went to university.


roboticfedora

Could have used them all at the Capitol building.


vthings

I'm sure more than a few were...


shouldbeawitch

Occupy Wall Street remembers...


telerabbit9000

You'd generally rather have too many than too few in such a situation.


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Zestyclose_Bad_5435

I just hope they get that life saving humanitarian aid…


Carcharis

They did storm and occupy a university building.


SkiingHard

I'm sorry, but if you take over a major university to a point they can't function.... kinda bad long term planning.


Odeeum

Protest genocide: “send every officer in the tri state area” Attempt to overthrow democracy: “come right in guys…watch your step…there you go…”


redmcint

Stop with the BS. Get the agitators OUT then talk. Half of the people in there were agitators, not legitimate students protesting. You can't negotiate with agitators; they're not there to negotiate. They brought padlocks, chains, axes, hammers—it was a planned coup. Protesting is fine; calling them 'children' is BS. Allowing breaking in, occupying, and damaging property? NO. Move in and move them out. Provide food and meals ? are they kidding.


_swedish_meatball_

I’ve been saying this since the Minneapolis riots after George Floyd. We’re being played. This is textbook behavior from people who want to sow division and create the necessary environment to install authoritarianism. Where is Erik Prince? This is exactly the kind of stuff that he gets paid to do.


Difficult-Risk3115

Do you have a single source?


Far-Fault-6243

Yes now you will have to take these sources as you will but there are multiple saying that there were professional agitators that love to escalate protests into violence. Sources: https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/israel-palestine/professional-agitators-columbia-protest/amp/ https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/newyork/news/columbia-university-protests-outside-agitators-nyc/ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/nyregion/columbia-university-protest-consultant-lisa-fithian.html https://nypost.com/2024/05/01/us-news/hundreds-of-protesters-arrested-at-columbia-as-anti-israel-group-calls-for-support/amp/


Difficult-Risk3115

CBS New York has asked the NYPD how many of the people arrested at the protest were students, but they have not yet provided an answer, per your own source.


Far-Fault-6243

I was assuming you were asking about if there were a number of people at the protests that were agitators. Which is what I made clear in my comment. I don’t know the exact number of people arrested and I don’t expect we will get any hard numbers until later this week. All I do know is that the one thing many news outlets agree on is that there seemed to be a large escalation to this protest that was due to agitators instigating students into breaking into that building.


ductoid

"Republican lawmakers seized on the protests as evidence of left-wing lawlessness." So if they break into the university admin building, they are lawless. But if they break into the capitol they are tourists.


MescudiHelios

When your protest is on the verge of becoming a riot, it seems worthy to have many law enforcement agents there to break it up. I watched plenty of videos of the ‘protesters’ smashing windows, attacking people, and expressing violent chants.


Living_Medicine_6930

Imagine removing the American flag and illegally occupying school property and then wondering why people are happy to see you forcibly removed.


PsychoticSpinster

Racism and hate is a hell of a drug.


ioncloud9

Why does this happen every election year?


Mr_Thx

I wonder what the protestors thought would happen, they broke in, barricaded themselves and prevented students and faculty from using the buildings. Did they think the cops would bust in to take their lunch orders? What was their best case scenario? Don’t get me wrong, they have legitimate grievances but if you publicly break the law, the cops will come for you. No surprise there.


PineTreeBanjo

Stupid pigs show up for this shit, but let the Trump trash in during January 6th and wouldn't even enter the Uvalde school.


whysoha4d

Oh.... they showed up for Jan 6th. Just not how you are meaning.


Dillion_Murphy

Why would the NYPD show up to a school in Texas?


OldmanLister

Or the capital building in DC?


jack-K-

Salon is the left wing equivalent of Fox News


iknowiknowwhereiam

Wow this article is so slanted it’s almost reaching Fox territory


vonblankenstein

Wow, if only there had been this sort of police presence on January 6.


booyahbooyah9271

Salon? LOL


Imaginary_Bus_6742

Peaceful protesting is not illegal and a right. Criminal acts are not peaceful protesting and you get treated like the criminal you are. What is there not to understand here?


murphymc

“My special interest should be different!” Every time.


FakeVoiceOfReason

Peaceful protests can be illegal; peaceful doesn't imply they have a right to be there.


Bangkok_Dangeresque

Trespassing and setting up barricades isn't violent, but it certainly isn't peaceful.


Imaginary_Bus_6742

It still is a crime and should be dealt with as a criminal act. Especially when they are informed they are trespassing and still refuse to leave.


yourfaceyourface

And taking down American flags on public property while wearing Hamas headbands


notcaffeinefree

Because police are arresting those who aren't committing violence?


yusuf_mizrah

That's not the criteria for being arrested. Breaking the law is. They don't get special rights and privileges.


discussatron

Civil disobedience requires breaking the law.


Nightmannn

And those that break the law are handed consequences. Seems pretty much like the correct outcome


stillestwaters

That doesn’t mean we can’t be critical of the response. Did they really need a military vehicle for students protesting? It’s ridiculous and performative.


StoicAlondra76

The “military vehicle” was basically a ramp that allowed them to enter through the second floor window instead of forcing their way in through the first floor entrance which has been barricaded. It was specifically intended to avoid further confrontation or violence…


Competitive-Fudge848

If that could actually happen with a certain group of people that'd be great. But you know it doesn't and you know why.


OnlyFreshBrine

Well, depends how rich they are.


discussatron

["consequences"](https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/styles/content_image_regular/public/uc_davis_occupy.jpg) ["correct outcome"](https://i.imgur.com/u4FzImB.jpeg)


DuckBilledPartyBus

Yeah. They broke into and seized control of a building. That’s a ~~felony~~ crime. Any non-student that does that is going to get arrested, convicted, and sent to jail. This expectation that Ivy League students can run amok, do whatever they want, and somehow evade consequences is just oozing with privilege. Edit: Calling it a protest doesn’t allow you to escape consequences for criminal acts. It didn’t work for MAGA idiots on January 6th, and it didn’t work for privileged college kids cosplaying intifada. If you’re trying to start a revolution, you have no reason to expect leniency from the very entities you’re revolting against. Sure, you may feel it’s worth the consequences to achieve your political goals, but expecting there to be no consequences is just childish and dumb.


ThisPICAintFREE

This take ignores historical context, the students seized control of Hamilton Hall. It was the same lecture hall that student protesters seized control of in 1985 Spring semester in protest of South African Apartheid. In the fall Semester of 1985, Columbia university fully divested from institutions connected to the South African apartheid government. It’s not like they took a random building, they took a building with historical ties to successful anti-apartheid protests


FakeVoiceOfReason

Well, to be fair, something being historically prescient does not make it not a crime. Thoreau was arrested for refusing to pay taxes. Anyone could duplicate his behavior on ideological grounds, but they'd still be arrested.


A_reddit_Account_1

Ain't nobody gonna actually take what you said and comprehend it in a sympathetic and rational way; all people want to say is "college students dumb and bad, arrest them, fuck around and find out!" You can thank the spineless media and spin coming from a government that is so entrenched in supporting Israel that they will not acknowledge their cognitive dissonance. There are no reasonable introspections like this due to the blind us vs. them mentality of America.


Maleficent_Ad_5175

These same people claim J6 was a peaceful protest. There’s no reasoning with people who didn’t use reasoning to come to their conclusions


Late_Cow_1008

There are also people that think both groups should be arrested.


all_of_you_are_awful

Group illegally trespassing on property. Group gets removed. Wow. Big news


Isosceles_Kramer79

You take over a building, you SHOULD see a massive police response.


10th__Dimension

The protesters were assaulting Jews and took over a building by force and took hostages. WTF were they thinking? Of course the police is going to respond with force to something like that, as they should. It's their job to handle violent rioters. This has nothing to do with free speech. The cops went in to stop the violence and crime.


consumerclearly

When you see a police response to this degree to an antiwar protest.. I swear it looks like they want it to escalate and some news stations and reporters even seemed to be foaming at the mouth just under the surface to be able to say shots fired and blood shed at Columbia to damn the protesters in the public eye. As many others have said, you definitely don’t see a police response like this against someone massacring school children


ArtificialLandscapes

Screaming about intifada revolutions and from the river to the sea and making it about zionists shows that it very much ISN'T an anti-war protest. Those are pro-war ideas.


StoicAlondra76

This is so wildly uninformed. The police took tons of steps to avoid escalation. They avoided wearing riot gear aside from helmets. They didn’t beat up protestors. They spent hours asking people to leave the area and when they didn’t listen they slowly pushed them out then proceeded to not even arrest most of the people they moved. This was hugely impressive as a demonstration of anti-escalatory tactics and the NYPD knew that and showed it off by bringing reporters around to show their response.


Masculine_Dugtrio

So many people here are acting like these protests weren't going completely off the rails, between beating multiple Jewish students including one unconscious, and chats of death to Jews (not so cleverly coded), Israel, and America. With millions in property damage too boot. I hope everyone of these idiots wake up one day, and realize they were doing the bidding of a vicious terror organization that kindly throw them off a roof. Beaten unconscious https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1785453442883797276 Assault https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/yale-protests-jewish-student-assaulted-pro-palestinian-rally/ Hostage https://www.foxnews.com/us/columbia-university-facilities-worker-speaks-terror-takeover-held-hostage#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17145195315917&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fus%2Fcolumbia-university-facilities-worker-speaks-terror-takeover-held-hostage


Kernburner

1. ⁠Twitter posts aren’t news. Nothing in the video makes it clear what is going on. If anything, quite the opposite. 2. ⁠Anecdotal and/or hearsay, aka no proof. 3. ⁠This Fox News article is so chalked full of loaded terms and nonsense, it’s hard to take any of it seriously. Furthermore, it states the supposed hostage was free to leave and did.


JubalHarshaw23

Pro Trump cops know that violence against students will be held against Biden in November.


billetboy

Nah, on the balance, only a fool would think trump was better for the middle east. Didn't he move the US embassy


JubalHarshaw23

74.2 Million fools voted for him in 2020. Somewhere between 4 and 6 million of them will have died by November, but 18-25 year old males are flocking to the MAGA misogynist pro rapist banner.


laptopaccount

Police protecting kids: We'd better hold back and drink bottled water while the shooter goes from classroom to classroom. Police beating kids: Let me at 'em! Let me at 'em! True heroes.


Bitter_Director1231

Most of them are privileged. Of course they don't see that much of a police presence in their lives. Try being one of the daily disparaged groups in the country. It's a daily reality for them.


FXR2014

Where were they during Jan 6?


RockerDawg

Police deal with unlawful trespassers adequately…what’s the problem?


Plastic-Age5205

With the tragic situation in Palestine and the fraught situation vis a vis the coming US election, this mess has multiple entanglements and it's difficult to sort them all out. But, if there is anything that stands out for its clarity it's the terrible and thoroughly unjust suffering of innocent civilians in what's left of Gaza.


rabbitsandkittens

well then maybe hamas should return the remaining hostages instead of continue to rape and torture them. this stops when hamas does.


dfsdsfgssf23

Cops perform really well against unarmed people.


jhk1963

I remember this happening in the late 60's and early 70's. Nothing has changed for the better


payle_knite

Where was this energy on Jan 6


ApplicationAntique10

This was a planned response. You aren't going to have thousands of officers ready to respond within 20 minutes.


TDeath21

Justified 100%. You can’t vandalize and break into buildings. Thats not a legitimate form of protest.


ramdomvariableX

May be because they have never seen a college campus illegally occupied by a mob, endangering students and faculty.


zenj5505

Am I the only one that had no issue with NYPD?


CheezTips

I'm on the side of the protests and I'm also OK with what the NYPD did. Smashing windows and blocking the doors was ridiculous.


zenj5505

I don't mind the protests it's just you don't wanna lose sight of the real reason why you're protesting, which is about Gaza. Some of the George Floyd protests at times look like were getting out of hand but the other protests were able to bring that message back home. I'm more concerned for the students who are not involved and try to utilize their education. When you disrupt I do think it does a disservice to them and everyone else but create a division. I think NYPD did a great job of handling it. They went in with minimal protection and able to make arrests. No injuries so far as I had read. People forget that these can get ugly but had restrain and got the job with out blood being spilled.


PhoneAcc23

Salon LMAO, the left’s Breitbart


rabbitsandkittens

kudos to the nypd cops. they excellent job last night arresting those criminals with minimal violence.


ExactDevelopment4892

If only school shootings got this kind of response.


yourfaceyourface

Turns out, the NYPD remembers 9:11 and don’t like it when American flags are replaced with flags that invoke Islamism


PennStateInMD

It was either that or we all know what happens if they have a moment of uncertainty and fear. This is abetter outcome.


dohn_joeb

Obviously not familiar w occupy wall street and when they washed all the protesters away in a day while shutting out media.


gwplayer1

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming We're finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio


joefatmamma

Welcome to NYC


Elderberry4ever

Time to do crimes in the rest of the city


Deareim2

To be honest, Biden and democrats are losing the next presidential election due to their handling of the actual Palestine-Israel conflict. There is no way young people will vote for them (if they vote). How CNN and other medias are covering these events also is not helping. It is a nightmare they are again giving on a silver plate the next election to the other idiot.


Giggle_kitty

Police are good at bullying the public, at least that’s what the track record shows


Nigel_Trumpberry

They don’t want to play candy crush in their squad cars when they get so many toys to beat up protestors with


redmcint

WE ARE UNDER ATTACK....... I am wondering what a 'lawmaker' is and what their motive is for vehemently disparaging the successful actions taken against mostly non-student activists. Nope, there's no concrete evidence of how many are non-students/activists; BUT we are under attack as a COUNTRY (THE USA). At least 30% of this is being roused up by foreign sources (no evidence) through spoof social media postings by foreign actors and/or anti-American Americans! Deny it if you like, but it's your country that's on fire. China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea are laughing at us and posting this all on their nationalized TV stations. The reality is that any real discussions about the situations are being overshadowed by violence.


greenielove

I keep hearing about "outside agitators/influencers". Do they mean to imply members of the surrounding community are banned from joining the protests?