• Obinice@lemmy.world
    20·
    8 months ago

    Context? What’s a bunch of cops standing next to each other got to do with education? Thanks!

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      251·
      8 months ago

      Students in America are protesting the genocide in Israel and American military aid for Israel. The response of their schools and local authorities has been to arrest them.

      • Wogi@lemmy.world
        11·
        8 months ago

        You know the last time a bunch of poorly trained idiots were handed guns and told to stand around while students protest, they ended up shooting the students.

        • Maggoty@lemmy.world
          51·
          8 months ago

          Actually the military and National Guard completely reformed the way they handle protests because of Kent State. It’s the police who are the problem in protests now. Even to the point of dressing as close to the national guard as they can so people blame the wrong organization.

          • Wogi@lemmy.world
            3·
            8 months ago

            Kent State and several other similar incidents. But yeah, that’s kind of my point

        • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
          9·
          8 months ago

          Yeah, conservatives originally demanded that Biden send the national guard to break the protests. They were obviously hoping for another Kent State scenario, which they could then leverage against him. When he refused, Texas sent the state police instead.

            • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
              2·
              8 months ago

              It is, depressingly, a very savvy and effective move with a proven history of success.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Hat_Riot

              The Hard Hat Riot occurred on May 8, 1970, in New York City. It started around noon when around 400 construction workers and around 800 office workers attacked around 1,000 demonstrators affiliated with the student strike of 1970. The students were protesting the May 4 Kent State shootings and the Vietnam War, following the April 30 announcement by President Richard Nixon of the U.S. invasion of neutral Cambodia. Some construction workers carried U.S. flags and chanted “USA, All the way”, and “America, love it or leave it”. Anti-war protesters shouted, “Peace now”.

              The riot, first breaking out near the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street in Lower Manhattan, led to a mob scene with more than 20,000 people in the streets, eventually leading to a siege of New York City Hall, an attack on the conservative Pace University, and lasted more than three hours. Around 100 people, including seven policemen, were injured on what became known as “Bloody Friday”. Six people were arrested, but only one of them was a construction worker associated with the rioters. President Nixon then invited the hardhat leaders to Washington, D.C., and accepted a hardhat from them.

              See Also: The Brooks Brothers Riot

              The Tea Party Movement

              The COVID protests

              Phyllis Schlafly and the Protest Against the Equal Rights Amendment

              Any historical article on lynching