The UAW will never support the mass arrest or intimidation of those exercising their right to protest, strike, or speak out against injustice.

Woken up at 3/4am to this after these idiots blasted the national anthem to the encampment, mocked Islamic prayer, and drunkenly couldn’t make a single beerpong shot

Just a fucking insane thing to tweet the day after police forces sanctioned by your administration invaded a college campus to spend the night beating and arresting students

I am horrified by the violent actions of police at US universities smashing protests against an ongoing #genocide perpetrated by a foreign country. Such a dystopian reality.
May students and faculty members be safe.
May the genocide end.
May justice and reason prevail.

This is fucking insane. Florida to New York to California, police repression of free speech is now the norm.

People *not* blaming Biden for this would blame Trump in a heartbeat if he emboldened pro-genocide mobs to crack skulls on college campuses. Come on now.

The NYPD threw a girl down a staircase, knocking her unconscious in front of cameras and with the full permission of the school she pays tuition to, and democrats are here smugly spreading conspiracy theories like trumpers. Don't pretend to care about democracy.

'BiDeN dOEsn'T cOnTroL tHe NyPD' yes, obviously. But he did, in fact, release several statements condemnming the Columbia protests specifically. He could have said students had a right to protest & he disagrees blah blah but instead he encouraged folks who wanted police involved.

#OtD 1 May 1867 a general strike broke out for a maximum 8-hour working day in Chicago, Illinois. An 8-hour day had been brought in by law, but employers ignored it. After several days, state militia were deployed, and the strike was crushed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8119/c…

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Madeleine This generation has had to watch their fellow classmates get slaughtered in school all their lives by guns and now in college they are listening to their fellow class mates get attacked by police for protesting other children getting slaughtered. Unreal

Noticing some folks reasoning that particular students don't deserve a militant police response bc they are 'peaceful.' I don't care if students break windows, shove back, or throw things; none of them deserve a militarized police response. They're protesting a genocide.

I want to repeat. The gatherings outside Columbia I’ve been at all afternoon have been peaceful. There is no reason to send in this much force

Washington Post confirms that the cops entered Hamilton Hall with guns drawn

All these grown ass men with full body armor, weapons and military vehicles against kids with signs and a real cause. Every last one of those NYPD entering campus is an embarrassment to the city and the country. Weak, stupid, followers who deserve neither a salary nor any

a WKCR reporter begins to cry on air after hearing the news that NYPD will have a permanent presence on columbia’s campus through the end of the school year, occupying the campus until 2 days after commencement

This is truly a moment for campus media, who know their own campus better than everyone else.

I’m listening to WKCR, the Columbia student radio station right now, and it’s another level of up-to-the-minute: cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/#

Students at UChicago encampment gather in silence around a speaker for radio broadcast of WKCR 89.9, Columbia’s student station. Student press are producing incredible coverage as swarms of NYPD riot cops pepper spray, beat and arrest their classmates for protesting genocide

This line just gutted me

WKCR reports an unconscious student on the ground in front of Hamilton — and tear gas in the air