One day protesters are going to realize that with proper application of a fulcrum and lever, these MRAPs will tip over very easily once they break the plane of 25-30 degrees and they are nearly impossible to move afterwards
Remember when that girl at Yale said someone poked her in the eye and she spent 3 days on every major news outlet and hung out with the Speaker of the House?
i bore witness to some of the most violent attacks against protestors i've ever seen. mind you these are full grown adults jumping college kids, beating and macing them.
the police arrived and let them continue macing and beating everyone for another 1.5 hours. insanity.
This is so incredibly wild to watch if you remember the UC Davis pepper spray incident in 2011. That was a HUGE story—the cops' names weren't even released until a 2014 court order, and UC Davis spent 175K to scrub the pictures from the internet. But TEAR GAS?!
Everyday life for decades. Very similar to the black experience in the US & intimately tied to the same global system of capitalism/imperialism that targets oppressed populations thru the global South. Why the Panthers embraced internationalism as a key part of their platform.
What's cool about looking back at the history of college protests is that 19 year old students have been right about every single American war, and the esteemed Harvard educated opinion writers at the New York Times have been wrong about every single American war.