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Context? What's a bunch of cops standing next to each other got to do with education? Thanks!
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Students in America are protesting the genocide in Israel and American military aid for Israel. The response of their schools and local authorities has been to arrest them.
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You know the last time a bunch of poorly trained idiots were handed guns and told to stand around while students protest, they ended up shooting the students.
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Actually the military and National Guard completely reformed the way they handle protests because of Kent State. It's the police who are the problem in protests now. Even to the point of dressing as close to the national guard as they can so people blame the wrong organization.
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Kent State and several other similar incidents. But yeah, that's kind of my point
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No the last few times it was just pepper spray and tear gas, but they're still hoping...
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This is Texas. They are afraid of 20 year olds.
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Students are protesting the Palestinian genocide. Texas sent state police to the campuses, to attempt to break the protests.
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4 dead in Ohio starts playing....
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Yeah, conservatives originally demanded that Biden send the national guard to break the protests. They were obviously hoping for another Kent State scenario, which they could then leverage against him. When he refused, Texas sent the state police instead.
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That's certainly a fucking dumb move...
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It is, depressingly, a very savvy and effective move with a proven history of success.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Hat_Riot
The Hard Hat Riot occurred on May 8, 1970, in New York City. It started around noon when around 400 construction workers and around 800 office workers attacked around 1,000 demonstrators affiliated with the student strike of 1970. The students were protesting the May 4 Kent State shootings and the Vietnam War, following the April 30 announcement by President Richard Nixon of the U.S. invasion of neutral Cambodia. Some construction workers carried U.S. flags and chanted "USA, All the way", and "America, love it or leave it". Anti-war protesters shouted, “Peace now”.
The riot, first breaking out near the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street in Lower Manhattan, led to a mob scene with more than 20,000 people in the streets, eventually leading to a siege of New York City Hall, an attack on the conservative Pace University, and lasted more than three hours. Around 100 people, including seven policemen, were injured on what became known as "Bloody Friday". Six people were arrested, but only one of them was a construction worker associated with the rioters. President Nixon then invited the hardhat leaders to Washington, D.C., and accepted a hardhat from them.
See Also: The Brooks Brothers Riot
The Tea Party Movement
The COVID protests
Phyllis Schlafly and the Protest Against the Equal Rights Amendment
Any historical article on lynching
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It sure as hell isn't an elementary school in Texas
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Yeah, there aren’t enough guns and dead children in this photo for it to be an elementary school.
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Also, it looks like Texas cops aren't scared to go inside.
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