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More than 100 arrested as NYPD cops in riot gear storm Columbia University, clear protests

www.nbcnewyork.com More than 100 arrested as NYPD cops in riot gear storm Columbia University, clear protests

More than 100 protesters were arrested — yet few injuries reported — when NYPD officers in riot gear descended on Columbia University late Tuesday, using tactical strategies to clear the occupied Hamilton Hall and lawn encampment at the request of the college, as anti-war demonstrations at U.S. camp...

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If anyone wondered what would have happened in the US if the US had a wave of protests similar to Hong Kong... This is what would have happened. In fact, this protest seems better organized, more structured, and a little awe inspiring to be honest

Now the question is if the students can organize en masse and march on the capital to occupy the Capitol.
- You don't match on the capitol unless you want to be painted with the same brush as the Jan 6 Rioters.
  
  Even Caesar knew what crossing the Rubicon meant, and would result in.
  
  Coordinated peaceful protests are the only way to go
  
  These kids are already being attacked by state security forces using more weaponry than the Jan 6 traitors were facing and your conclusion is we need more peace?
  
  Coordinated peaceful protests never achieved a major right.
  
  Coordinated peaceful protests are what an authoritarian system tells you is "the only way to go, bcs we don't want to get attracted when the majority wants a change we the few don't want" ...
- HK was hugely coordinated though. It would be like if not just a campus but the whole city was in on it because they knew they didn't have a choice, and the tactics were more specific to what would work against the CCP, not the US. If it was in another country that wasn't an oppressive autocracy, it would probably have been very effective.
  
  Edit: hey downvote if you want, but tell me something like this doesn't take coordination:
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/23/hong-kong-protesters-join-hands-in-30-mile-human-chain
  
  Their oppressive autocracy vs our (?)
  
  This is... Not evidence of coordination, but of network effects. The same reason that hockey fans descending into a riot after losing Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals is not an indication that they organized a riot.
  
  Liberal media in HK pumped up the young full of lies in HK so they would protest against a country that would provide them housing, a better quality of living and most importantly; democracy. Its a hard truth to swallow but more HK protestors killed other HK people than police vs HK protestors...
  
  Something most people in HK dont have as an account of being a british colony for 100 years.
- Ask Trump, he's good at that kind of thing.
- That's exactly what they should do. Take this energy to DC and storm the Capital.
  
  You guys really try to use that to make it less of an issue.
  
  Man you're fucking stupid if you're anything but a troll or this is a bad joke. The capital building is just a building. Taking control of it does nothing. It's just a good way to destroy a movement. You don't put all of your biggest followers into a group to do something illegal in a way that makes them easy to track and follow, especially when achieving victory still does nothing except getting you arrested or killed a little while after and doing nothing.
  
  Congress can operate operate out of any building. They operate out of that one by tradition. It doesn't hold any power itself. If you take it then now you have control of a perfectly normal building, not something powerful.
Blue state, blue governor, blue mayor, blue senators, you physically cannot get more blue if you tried.

And yet, here we are
- “…a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.”
- Even the thin blue line is actually red apparently.
  
  There's 0 difference between Red Team and Blue Team. They're both the same team.
- Red mayor pretending to be blue*
  
  I would say at this point there's no discernable difference between a blue mayor and a red mayor pretending to be blue.
- Maybe if we vote more blue, this won’t happen again…
- "Blue mayor" and "Blue governor" are REALLY stretching the definition here... with a healthy push from the ever shifting Overton window.
  
  Look at actions, not words or badges that people pin to their own lapels without earning them.
  
  They're members of the Democratic party. They are, by definition, blue.
Regardless of what side of the issue being protested you are on if you are in favor of cops in riot gear breaking up a peaceful protest, you are a traitor to our country.

It’s that simple. You cannot stand for American values and cheer that a peaceful protest was dismantled by government goons.
Keep fighting, my brothers and sisters.
ACAB
How to turn protesters into radicals.
- Honestly the police are the ones keeping the movement alive by basically forcing the media to cover it.
  
  If there were no police or insane counter protestors it would have been easy for the media to ignore. Like how many days in a row can you have a segment that's basically like "Let's go down the ground, yup protestors are still here.... back to you" before the audience gets bored
  
  It's hard to say who's keeping it alive in reality. Media is covering it because they can make a culture war thing out of it. The police are there because the media is there. The counter-protestor are there because of the former culture war thing. Then the media is also there to get images of the chaos they fomented.
'Gotta act fast if we want to continue supporting genocide.
Where's the next Kent State? The weapons and armor are much bigger this time.
- The Bell Riots - September 2024
- Ohio is red these days and the college still exists, don't take away their shots at history!
Funny how whenever literal nazis gather and protest cops are nowhere to be found
- No, they're there, just not in uniform.
Smoke more pork
- Bacon for breakfast
This referred to CUNY a few times. I thought that, City University of New York, was a different institution, and I got the impression the article was referring to Columbia University as CUNY. Maybe I missed something?

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