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Gillian Branstetter
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Do I understand correctly that 1. No violence has been committed by protesters at Columbia 2. No actionable incitement to violence has been uttered at Columbia 3. No armed protesters have shown up at Columbia 4. Senators are calling for the National Guard to step in amid "concerns for safety"?

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Ccharliezegers.bsky.social

Also the NYPD - well-known for their support of peaceful protests, generally - basically described the protests as "kinda chill."

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Kkeithb10.bsky.social

Flower Power is the title of a photograph taken by American photographer Bernie Boston for the now-defunct newspaper The Washington Evening Star. Taken on October 21, 1967, during the March on the Pentagon by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, the photo shows protester George Harris placing a carnation into the barrel of an M14 rifle held by a soldier of the 503rd Military Police Battalion (Airborne).
 -quoted from Wikipedia
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RScolbosch.bsky.social

I guess some people were yelling outside the gates. Sounds like a job for one cop with a radio, but I suppose we could deploy tanks instead.

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horizontalhold.bsky.social

Yes. The students groups aren't perfect victims per se but not of anything they did matched anything like THAT besides what they've already disallowed. Therefore it doesn't matter.

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Nner0.bsky.social

yes, concerns of safety for the american-israeli genocide of palestine

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ZAzorkaficionado.bsky.social

There is never anything as violent or unsafe as the imaginings of a right wing dipshit about what MIGHT happen. FEELING unsafe is way more important than the reality that you are actually pretty safe.

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HLhamptonstevens.bsky.social

I emphatically, categorically, do not think that the National Guard should be brought in. Full stop. But I believe there's been a little bit of violence. That one woman was stabbed in the eye by a flagpole. Some pushing and shoving — stuff like that. I don't have a sense if that was students.

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JBhikmah786.bsky.social

Precisely so @gbbranstetter.bsky.social As a reporter on the Columbia campus detailed.

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Ssuterudo.bsky.social

Sorry, just t be sure...Do you mean District of Columbia or Colombia Republic?

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Jjarda.bsky.social

Yes, it's a clear case to be alarmed. You keeo calm only when a fascist mob with bear sprays and pipe bombs attacksthe Capitol or when some psycho is shooting kids in a school or during other normal events of this sort. A peaceful protest is the real danger. Remember what it did in India.

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Gillian Branstetter
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