Can't win in the United States....people are complaining that the cops aren't doing shit about all these protests, and then when they do, people complain. Whatever...
A student walkout at the University of Texas at Austin in support of Palestine turned chaotic Wednesday when police officers tried to disperse protesters using horses and riot gear, resulting in the arrest of at least 34 people.
The demonstration showed no signs of violence before authorities intervened, though police ordered the protesters multiple times to disperse and warned them they would be arrested for trespassing.
A procession of mounted state troopers and officers on foot then herded students farther using body shields and their horses, which at times came within grazing distance of protesters.
UT-Austin spokesperson Brian Davis told student protesters that law enforcement was called in because the Palestine Solidarity Committee had advertised that classes would be canceled.
As pro-Palestine and pro-Israel students engage in protests and heated discussions, school leaders have struggled to strike a balance between their roles as moderators and facilitators of intellectual debate on campus.
Jeremi Suri, a UT-Austin history professor, called the law enforcement response inappropriate and an “attack on students.” He said he did not find the protest to be disruptive when he had class this morning.
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Funny thing is that immigration is a matter of two parties: the receiving country and the country of origin. Even if the Supreme Court of the US says it’s OK for Texas to deport…Texas doesn’t have any agreement with Mexico or any other country to deport people to.
Mexico already said they only have an agreement with the US…not with f’ing Texas.
So, any caught immigrants in Texas will either have to be shipped to some country that will take them, or be kept in Texas jail.
Either way, it will be expensive. It will create a humanitarian crises, and it will create an unsafe situation for Americans abroad, in particular in Mexico.
The Supreme Court has forgotten that International agreements take precedence over local laws.
It’s a bit more than procedural. The law is allowed to be enforced until another decision is reached. Now it’s up to the governor-for-life what to do with that.
Another day another ruling by the supreme court to erode any confidence in their ability to do anything correctly. Rather than addressing a problem head on, we shall instead hyperfocus on the way it worked itself through our court system to avoid any responsibility at this time.
That’s actually a common misconception. Protect and serve was never the police motto, it was a slogan written on the side of los angeles police cruisers back in black-and-white television days. People picked it up through shows like Adam-12 and Dragnet. LAPD (no PD in america that I know of, actually) no longer write that slogan on any of their items, specifically to avoid the impression that they might be supposed to protect and serve if they don’t want to.
Edit: I’m told that some unspecified police departments do keep this “motto” on their vehicles, despite not being beholden to or, generally speaking, acting upon it.
Police departments aren’t that smart. They are blatantly and openly willing to lie to the public on a daily basis. Why would they care about how that “slogan” makes them look when they’re willing to publicly shelter murderers and kill over a thousand citizens a year?
Terri Rimmer uses her computer to search for remote jobs in her Fort Worth apartment on Sept. 9, 2023. A blackout curtain on the window helps keep the room cool. Rimmer said the trauma from the February 2021 winter storm caused her to shut off her air conditioning last summer when the state grid operator asked Texans to reduce electricity use. Credit: Evan L’Roy for The Texas Tribune
and a 17th-century textbook, amateur historian David Barton recently argued that Christianity has always formed the basis of American morality and thus is essential to Texas classrooms.
Christians and lying about history, name a more iconic duo
I mean they’re right that the US was founded by a bunch of religious extremists and rich fuckers who didn’t want to pay taxes. For which we do in fact see the ramifications still to this day.
But to draw the conclusion that somehow it’s a good thing and we need more of it in public life is pretty twisted.
The rights listed in the Constitution have always been a joke, selectively enforced in favor of the ruling classes, and this is yet another example of that. Completely blatant overreach by municipal and state authorities.
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