"These escalations against students are a choice. Police can be patient, even passive. The Texas DPS proved that when they loitered outside the ongoing slaughter of grade-schoolers." www.momleft.com/p/the-kids-t...
The same police force that failed Uvalde children is arresting peaceful student protesters at UT Austin. It's not about safety. It's about order.
Biggest thing I learned in occupy: Riot shields are primarily for starting riots, or at least trying.
Goddamn
Policing is more about controlling social order than fighting crime these days. Disruptions are bad for Business, er, I mean “the collective good.”
Cops are only brave against peaceful, unarmed people. It's why Black Panther patrols worked.
"When a DPS officer marches into a protest with a baton in hand & 3 rifle magazines in his vest he is not there to protect students. He is not a peacekeeper but the protector of war abroad. His weapons are an implicit threat against US students, in service of an explicit threat against Palestinians"
God damn
White supremacists openly marching screaming about genocide and fighting with counterprotesters - state governments: "If we send in police it'll just escalate things."
DPS is just a collection of unintelligent mouth breathers. Sat next to one a few years ago and he told me he wanted to be be a forest ranger but didn't have the grades so he applied to where they did require decent grades: the Texas DPS.