“UCLA now finds itself in a far more vulnerable place. The attack last night was pure anarchy in which violent thugs were given free rein, seemingly with the tacit support of law enforcement.”
#acab #fascism #gazaprotests

https://forward.com/opinion/608479/ucla-violence-campus-protests/

I'm a UCLA professor. Our leaders could have prevented violence – The Forward

Last night's violence at UCLA was something the university's administrators could and should have anticipated.

^{The Forward}

LAPD officers were seen shooting beanbags using shotguns targeting protesters at very close range.

📸 TW: @MrOlmos

#UCLA #FreePalestine #ACAB

The cops have started working to breakthrough the barricades and are letting off a large volley of flash-bang grenades.

📸 TW: @PplsCityCouncil

#UCLA #ACAB #FreePalestine

“I have been reporting on political dissent and violent policing for 15 years, particularly in New York City. Compared to Tuesday night, I have never witnessed, at the scene of a protest, the use of police power so disproportionate to the type of demonstration taking place.”

#fascism #acab #gazaprotests

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc-gaza-college-protests-police-outside-agitators/

I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged.

When police attacked student protesters, a lone trash can was the only damaged property I saw around City College of New York.

^{Natasha Lennard (The Intercept)}

Ah yes, cops trampling those pesky first-amendment rights in order to raise a symbol of our freedom.

https://hellgatenyc.com/nypd-storms-city-college

#HellgateNYC #CCNY #ACAB #FTP

The news out of Columbia University and UCLA last night is horrific. I can't even think of anything articulate to say, just...

Fuck the police.

Fuck genocide. I stand with those protesting against genocide and senseless killing.

The Columbia administration should be ashamed of themselves for calling in the cops. The right-wing thugs in LA are just plain shit-stains on the ass of humanity.

Free Palestine. Stop Genocide. 🇵🇸 ☮️

#FreePalestine #StopGenocide #ACAB

The cops wore tan pants and busted out some custom built toys to raid Hind's Hall. Bc you gotta dress nice when you're at an Ivy League.

📸 TW: @isabelle_leyva

#acab #nyc #columbia

Cops were seen entering the building with guns drawn. They raided the building room by room with pistols drawn and at times carrying basaltic shields.

... Naturually I've still not seen any reports about any weapons charges etc. Feel like that would be a huge deal if the cops had actually found anything material to justify all this.... anyways.

📸 TW: @YWNReporter

#Columbia #NYC #acab

I'm not the only one who thinks the cops were over board. Here's a cop himself telling a loved one about his day . . .

His previous text reads:

"I thought we fucking shot someone"

📸 TW: @ColumbiaSJP

https://linktr.ee/columbiasjp

#Columbia #ACAB #NYC #NYPD #FreePalestine

There's a TON of footage of brutal take downs, cops dog piling people who are already down, and of course dragging them while beating the crap out of them to make it look like their reaction to being dragged is them "resisting".

But, first I think you should see this meme!

📸 TW: @probablyreadit
🎤 IG: @noshu4me

https://linktr.ee/noshu4m3

#acab #nyc #columbia #bonk #meme #FreePalestine

Over night hundreds of NYPD cops descended on Columbia's campus and other NYC universities.

📸 IG: nycpym

https://www.instagram.com/NYCPYM

#NYC #Columbia #FreePalestine #acab

The column of cops plowed its way into the peaceful crowd of students.

📸 @nahid8

#UTAustin #ACAB #FreePalestine

Students report seeing numerous arrests of students simply going about their day.

As the column of cops made their way through the crowd they began making random violent arrests.

📹 TW: @CandiceBernd

#UTAustin #FreePalestine #ACAB

I'm dying... they arrested a photographer from the local news station FOX7 and the person recording here is a local NBC reporter 😂

🎙️ Nabil Brent Remadna - KXAN NBC

#DPS #Austin #UTAustin #ACAB #FreePalestine

Despite the chaos of a simmering police riot, the student reporters continue asking hard hitting questions.

📸 Nicole Slaski & Dante
TW: @nicool_slabsky
TW: @lacroixboi6969

#Smallwood #UTAustin #ACAB #FreePalestine #Austin

Another angle of Carlos from FOX7 being arrested has emerged: https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/112328602106113667

The OP has a bio that says "I religiously devote myself to Texas Football" and his caption for this clip was "Guy with camera gets rko’d by police".

... I'm not going to lie, I had to google RKO and I'll be damned if Chris from Austin who loves football isn't right about this cop abuse!

https://fanaticwrestling.com/blogs/news/rko-wrestling-move

📸 TW: @Chris_Kuhlman00

#UTAustin #Austin #RKO #FreePalestine #ACAB #FOX7

The day started with a convoy of cop cars heading to the UT Austin campus.

What was the rush? What was the threat?

Arresting college kids for holding signs and chanting and reporters for filming.

Real bang up job DPS

📸 Ryan Chandler - KXAN - NBC

#UTAustin #ACAB #FreePalestine #DPS

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Through out the day DPS/APD made several pushes with mounted officers and riot cops to push students of the South Lawn.

Students slowly were pushed from the area.

📸 TW: @CandiceBernd

#UTAustin #ACAB #FreePalestine

There's been countless videos coming out of Austin of questionable arrests.

Here's one of an elderly man being arrested. I think this is the first arrest from UT today that didn't involve someone getting body slammed.

📸 TW: @CandiceBernd

#UTAustin #ACAB #FreePalestine

Once the South Lawn was clear, the mounted police left and the cops slowly dispersed.

They seem to have made some efforts to hold the lawn but . . .

#UTAustin #ACAB #FreePalestine

The student's numbers on the ground and spirit remained high.

They eventually re-took the South Lawn!

📸 TW: @CandiceBernd

#FreePalestine #UTAustin #ACAB

Came across this picture of FOX7's photographer being arrested yesterday as cops look suspiciously at his camera on the ground like it might bite them 🤣

#UTAustin #FOX7 #ACAB

I'm personally really inspired by the attention to detail these students display. One thing is for sure, these kids love their water!

📸 @oconnell

#UTAustin #FreePalestine #Boink #ACAB

The cops could be seen barging into the encampment and taking the student's mutual aid supplies.

📸 TW: @FrancescaDnunz

#UTAustin #FreePalestin #Austin #DPS #ACAB #MutualAid

Cops arrested around two dozen people from the encampment and attempted to leave campus.

Sadly the cops got surrounded by students who withstood violent outbursts from the cops to block the arrest vans' exit route.

📸 TW: @anthony_larraga

#utaustin #FreePalestine #acab #StudentIntafada

Cops reportdly deployed pepper spray and flash bangs.

But there are hundreds of students blocking the road, they don't seem to have enough pepper spray.

#utaustin #acab #FreePalestine

The cops had to concentrate all their force around the arrest bus and give up the lawn in order to finally take away the people they arrested over the last 3-4 hours.

📸 TW: @BenPhilpottKUT

#UTAustin #FreePalestine #ACAB #StudentIntifada

"The practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police has spread quietly across the nation over the last 15 years, built on questionable science and backed by police-aligned experts...

"At least 94 people died after they were given sedatives and restrained by police from 2012 through 2021, nearly 10% of the more than 1,000 deaths of people subdued by police in ways that are not supposed to be fatal. About half of the 94 who died were Black" #acab
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https://apnews.com/article/investigation-police-use-of-force-sedation-injections-demetrio-jackson-621909ba7491abc2af8ad2e33ba3415b

Dozens of deaths reveal risks of sedating people restrained by police

An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that the practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police has spread quietly across the nation over the last 15 years, built on questionable science and backed by police-aligned experts.

^{RYAN J. FOLEY (AP News)}

If you've been following along today, you probably can guess what happened next...

Of course a column of cops in riot gear attempted to storm into the crowd and began violently arresting peaceful protesters.

Reportedly 15 arrests so far.

📸 Cole Daniel Behrens

#OhioState #FreePalestine #Ohio #ACAB

Police snipers made an appearance today atop the Indiana Memorial Union on Indiana University's campus.

Students on IU's campus have setup a Liberation Zone protest and demand their university divest from Israel inline with BDS. They also make specific mention of a local miltary partnership with Crane Naval Base which has a key roll in supplying large munitions to Israel.

📸 TW: @BenSharpie64

https://linktr.ee/iudivestnow

#IU #IUDivest #Indiana #Bloomington #FreePalestine #ACAB #StudentSpring

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Students are reporting teargas and rubber bullets were fired at Emory this morning with many arrested. They are requesting donations, if you're able, to the ATL Solidarity bail fund.

https://atlsolidarity.org/

#Atlanta #Emory #ACAB #FreePalestine #MutualAidRequest

Atlanta Solidarity Fund

^{atlsolidarity.org}

On Emory's campus this morning, Atlanta police were seen continuing to tase an already handcuffed student. He'd been thrown to the ground and handcuffed with no resistance yet the cops are out here torturing him in plain sight.

Clearly demonstrating why cop city must never be built.

#Atlanta #Emory #StopCopCity #FreePalestine #ACAB

Oh right... the cops needed to stop the Muslim students from praying and having community support 🤦🏿‍♂️

📸 Angie Orellana Hernandez - LA Times

#USC #LA #FreePalestine #ACAB

Why are legal observers and students just going about their day being violently arrested en-mass?

#USC #ACAB #FreePalestine

Where's the fire?

Hell, what's the fire?

Guys?

📸 @PplsCityCouncil@twitter.com

#USC #ACAB #FreePalestine

The #USC students were able to pull off a de-arrest by surrounding cop cars that attempted to leave with their comrades. Cops eventually gave up on a few arrests and let folks go.

#USC #LA #FreePalestine #ACAB #DeArrest

Since people are talking about Kent State, Ohio, 1970, it's a good time to talk about Jackson State, Mississippi, 1970.

Similar situation, except there was no active protest, just a bunch of students hanging out. The mayor of Jackson declared a riot and called in the pigs. Someone threw a glass bottle, not at the pigs, but they still opened fire. Phillip Gibbs, a student at Jackson State, and James Green, a high school student who was walking home from his job, were murdered by cops. Many others were wounded.

Left: photo of James Earl Green, age 17

Right: photo of Phillip Gibbs with his wife, Dale

#ACAB #BlackHistory #history @histodons @blackmastodon

https://www.jsums.edu/margaretwalkercenter/gibbs-green-50th-commemoration-exhibit/the-gibbs-green-tragedy/

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/2986/i-saw-all-the-carnage-jsu-remembers-gibbs-green-tragedy-in-virtual-town-hall