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thanks_shakey_snake ,

Can someone OOTL this for me? What's going on in Texas?

theparadox ,

More arrests of college students walking out of class and peacefully protesting the situation in Gaza. This time UT Austin.

okamiueru ,

What do they need the riot police for?

Passerby6497 ,

Violently suppressing peaceful protestors is my guess.

frunch ,

To make it look like the protestors are violent. They wouldn't call in those troops if it weren't for those savage antisemitic protestors, right?!?

RizzRustbolt ,

Or if a bunch of school students are about to be killed and they need a group of nutsacks to stand around and do nothing.

These are the same dorks from Uvalde.

jkrtn ,

Spraying chemicals directly in the faces of nonviolent students and then beating the shit out of them with batons.

DerArzt ,

And then trying to wipe it off the internet.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Wait - that meme cop at UC Davis or wherever some years ago with the pepper spray? They tried to scrub that?

Or a different one? Because that meme was everywhere - good luck with that one.

troglodytis ,

They tried to scrub that. Silly humans

scoobford ,

Depending on your biases, either to try and maintain order to prevent it from becoming a riot, or to intimidate and assault protestors.

Given the history of police and protesting college kids, it's probably supposed to be mostly an intimidation thing.

masquenox ,

It's hard to crack down on dissent without them.

graymess ,

Great question.

melpomenesclevage , (edited )

Terrorism. Literally all riot police ever do.

uis ,
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Aceticon ,

Because the American Power Elites believe Might Makes Right and the riot police are their most willful and most violent goons.

Natanael ,

They don't, they just want to scare the kids into but expressing ideas they don't like. Which is very illegal but they don't care

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