"NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism Rebecca Weiner said a shift in tactics used by campus protesters signaled that non-student groups were involved in the occupation of the Columbia building.
“Students don’t come in the door knowing how to barricade themselves,” she said. “These are all skills that are taught and learned.”
THese students spent their entire school life doing lockdown drills taught by police
#politics #protest
https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-says-police-arrested-nearly-300-people-at-columbia-and-city-college-protests
No wonder NYPD "intelligence" is messed up:
The NYPD crackdown on #columbia U students was led by a member of the school’s faculty
Rebecca Weiner is a Columbia prof who leads an NYPD intel division that maintains an office in Tel Aviv
Weiner said student "rhetoric" necessitated the violent raid
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/05/02/columbia-crackdown-university-nypd/
Olympia’s The Evergreen State College (Washington state) signs agreement with students to move toward divesting from companies profiting in Gaza
no arrests
no suspensions
this is how it should be
https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article288254270.html
Ex-PM Boris Johnson denied the right to vote because of Voter ID law he created
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-turned-away-polling-32724518
through Doug Daus, a staffer at the Manhattan DA’s tech unit that processes digital evidence. Custodial witness on contents of Micheal Cohens phone recordings
There. That is the case
the year is 1924, one of the richest men in the world who owns a car company is an antisemite who recently purchased a newspaper to complain about jews
the year is 2024, one of the richest men in the world who owns a car company is an antisemite who recently purchased a microblogging platform to complain about jews
the year is 2124, one of the richest men in the world who owns a starship company is an antisemite who recently purchased a thought projector to complain about jews
Brown university was able to remove its #protest camps
they listened, and are going to hold a divestment vote.
No arrests
this is how it SHOULD BE DONE
ASL?
Unlike Navarro. Bannon threw his lawyers under the bus (the ones he refuses to pay) and is using the "acted on advice of counsel" defense which is really good at gumming up the legal system
in the middle of widespread pro-palestinian protests and encampments demanding a ceasefire, the house has responded by passing a bill that legally defines being anti-zionist or criticizing israel as anti-semitic for the purposes of enforcing anti-discrimination laws.
Horrid. Not every Jew supports the Israeli government but now they can be labeled antisemitic
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