The students looking up the cops’ disciplinary and lawsuit histories and reading them to the cops are absolutely goddamned badass.
Interviewed the City College student journalist who livestreamed the NYPD crackdown Tuesday. He talked about what he saw that night, reading the officers' complaints back to them, and how he felt about it all: defector.com/city-college...
Leon Orlov-Sullivan, the primary editor-in-chief of the student-run Campus Magazine, was there that night, streaming what he could through the publication’s Instagram account. In his capacity as a stu...
I assume the police will be working to make it so those records are no longer public going forward.
It pays to do your "homework"!
This is fucking beautiful! I've just started a week of vacation and this starts it off on a perfect note.
Proving that modern-day students CAN do their own research.
A 32 day suspension for taking dick pics with his bodycam?
GENIUS.
In absolute awe of them. They fought the law and...it was a draw, at least morally
A miniature of the kind of “turn the surveillance state back on itself” in the movie Enemy of the State.
"Proper" professional journalists at respected orgs: What, you guys don't just hand them a microphone and broadcast whatever they say, no matter how embarrassing and obviously false it is?! You just report facts instead of platforming nonsense?! Stop it, you are making us look bad.
I've been talking with these kids for a couple of weeks at UT. Law enforcement has no idea what they're up against. An entire generation of smart, tactical thinkers, raised with a game console in hand; they would have made great cops or soldiers but instead oppose them on principle.