The UT Austin protest got very interesting today.

Started with DPS police officers marching onto campus as a column.

Police came armed with batons, over 100 rounds of rifle ammunition each.

A few officers carried teargas launchers and AR-15s.

📸 @RyanChandlerTV@twitter.com

#DPS #UTAustin #Austin #Divest #FreePalestine #StudentSpring

The column of cops plowed its way into the peaceful crowd of students.

📸 @nahid8

#UTAustin #ACAB #FreePalestine

Students report seeing numerous arrests of students simply going about their day.

As the column of cops made their way through the crowd they began making random violent arrests.

📹 TW: @CandiceBernd

#UTAustin #FreePalestine #ACAB

The students have posted a request for jail support either by calling for release or with bail donations.

📸 https://www.instagram.com/p/C6J7y7VJ4tK/

Venmo: @psc_atx

#MutualAidRequest #UTAustin #FreePalestine

I'm dying... they arrested a photographer from the local news station FOX7 and the person recording here is a local NBC reporter 😂

🎙️ Nabil Brent Remadna - KXAN NBC

#DPS #Austin #UTAustin #ACAB #FreePalestine

So... the internet is FAST as all ways.

I believe there's already video of the moment Carlos from ABC7 was arrested.

I'm not sure these colleges and local PDs are ready for the backlash they created today.

Out here throwing reporters to the ground and dangling rifle muzzles in their faces on live streams. smh good luck with that

https://twitter.com/WalkerATX/status/1783256034041033001

#UTAustin #Austin #FreePalestine

Chris Walker (@WalkerATX) on X

This is the moment a ⁦@TxDPS⁩ trooper pushes another trooper into one of our photographers. Watch the video! They arrest him during a livestream from the UT campus.

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Despite the chaos of a simmering police riot, the student reporters continue asking hard hitting questions.

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TW: @lacroixboi6969

#Smallwood #UTAustin #ACAB #FreePalestine #Austin

Another angle of Carlos from FOX7 being arrested has emerged: https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/112328602106113667

The OP has a bio that says "I religiously devote myself to Texas Football" and his caption for this clip was "Guy with camera gets rko’d by police".

... I'm not going to lie, I had to google RKO and I'll be damned if Chris from Austin who loves football isn't right about this cop abuse!

https://fanaticwrestling.com/blogs/news/rko-wrestling-move

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#UTAustin #Austin #RKO #FreePalestine #ACAB #FOX7

nullagent (@nullagent@partyon.xyz)

Attached: 1 video I'm dying... they arrested a photographer from the local news station ABC7 and the person recording here is a local NBC reporter 😂 🎙️ Nabil Brent Remadna - KXAN NBC #DPS #Austin #UTAustin #ACAB #FreePalestine

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The day started with a convoy of cop cars heading to the UT Austin campus.

What was the rush? What was the threat?

Arresting college kids for holding signs and chanting and reporters for filming.

Real bang up job DPS

📸 Ryan Chandler - KXAN - NBC

#UTAustin #ACAB #FreePalestine #DPS

Through out the day DPS/APD made several pushes with mounted officers and riot cops to push students of the South Lawn.

Students slowly were pushed from the area.

📸 TW: @CandiceBernd

#UTAustin #ACAB #FreePalestine

There's been countless videos coming out of Austin of questionable arrests.

Here's one of an elderly man being arrested. I think this is the first arrest from UT today that didn't involve someone getting body slammed.

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#UTAustin #ACAB #FreePalestine

Once the South Lawn was clear, the mounted police left and the cops slowly dispersed.

They seem to have made some efforts to hold the lawn but . . .

#UTAustin #ACAB #FreePalestine

The student's numbers on the ground and spirit remained high.

They eventually re-took the South Lawn!

📸 TW: @CandiceBernd

#FreePalestine #UTAustin #ACAB

This was the scene at UT Austin this morning. Students came out in a MAJOR way and continue to demand their university divest from Israel.

Reports from those OTG yesterday and today suggests the crowd is nearly five times bigger than yesterday. ✊🏿🇵🇸

📸 Adam Powell ATX

#UTAustin #FreePalestine

Came across this picture of FOX7's photographer being arrested yesterday as cops look suspiciously at his camera on the ground like it might bite them 🤣

#UTAustin #FOX7 #ACAB

It's important to know that Texas has a law that re-affirms the 1st amendment and guarantees that public college campuses can be used for public demonstrations.

Watch this 👇🏿

#UTAustin #Texas #FreePalestine

Texas Tribune reporting 46 out of 57 arrested have been released and charges dropped!

Also making a lot of catty remarks about "outside" influence but as we just saw from the official UT Austin press release -anyone- can host an event practicing any protected 1A speech on the campus.

I wonder why there's so much scrutiny this time? 🤔

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/25/ut-austin-palestinian-arrests-criminal-cases/

#FreePalestine #utaustin #TexasTribune

Most cases against UT-Austin protesters dropped

The Travis County attorney dropped 46 charges after 57 people were arrested at a pro-Palestinian demonstration.

The Texas Tribune

The camera man from FOX7 was seen getting out of jail early Thursday morning.

📸 @JessicaonFOX7

#Austin #UTAustin #FOX7

Feel like this really settles the question of how much cops love beating up peaceful protesters.

This cop taking a selfie right before the go and stage a cop riot tells you all you need to know about their intentions.

https://twitter.com/lilykepner/status/1783630948493312041/photo/1

#UTAustin #F12

Lily Kepner (@lilykepner) on X

Going through my photos from yesterday, found this. Taken at 12:10 p.m., just as protestors started marching. @statesman

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This morning student protesters steadfastly re-established their encampment on UT Austin's campus.

According to @oconnell police are on scene but are currently out numbered.

Check this thread for live OTG toots today 👇🏿

https://federate.social/@oconnell/112355812735803024

#UTAustin #FreePalestine #DEI

Mx. Kit O'Connell—Hire me! (@oconnell@federate.social)

Attached: 1 image Here's a full view of the tents and activists protecting them. They are chanting for #Palestine and demanding divestment by #UTAustin. #Austin

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I'm personally really inspired by the attention to detail these students display. One thing is for sure, these kids love their water!

📸 @oconnell

#UTAustin #FreePalestine #Boink #ACAB

The posts from 2hrs ago show the energized students re-building their encampment.

📸 TW: @CandiceBernd

#utaustin #FreePalestine

About an hour ago a column of cops showed up and began surrounding the encampment.

📸 TW: @lilykepner

#utaustin #FreePalestine #FreeSpeech #Austin

The cops could be seen barging into the encampment and taking the student's mutual aid supplies.

📸 TW: @FrancescaDnunz

#UTAustin #FreePalestin #Austin #DPS #ACAB #MutualAid

Annnd the cops went right back to last week's ultra effective strategy of arresting a couple dozen students. 🙄

📸 TW: @RyanChandlerTV

#UTAustin #FreePalestine

Meanwhile, this dude.

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#utaustin #FreePalestine #UTSunBather

Cops arrested around two dozen people from the encampment and attempted to leave campus.

Sadly the cops got surrounded by students who withstood violent outbursts from the cops to block the arrest vans' exit route.

📸 TW: @anthony_larraga

#utaustin #FreePalestine #acab #StudentIntafada

@nullagent That is an automatic win for protesters, caused by the failure of the enemy to hold that ground they had cleared. This is a classic mistake in warfare and played a large role in defeating the US in Vietnam.
@nullagent The police wear brown shirts! Definition of 'Brown Shirt'
1. (in Nazi Germany) a storm trooper. 2. a member of any fascist party or group.
@nullagent from what I’ve learned about protests it’s bad when cops on horses show up.
Cops need to stay on their own lane.
#RightToProtest

@nullagent A few years ago, I saw Kurdish protesters at the White House stop horse cops almost instantly with nothing more than DRUMS. This was Washington DC's US Park Police on horseback, attempting to ensure an Erdogan supporter could harass pro-YPG/YPJ protesters without paying a price.

As soon as those drums started going, all I saw in front of my face was horse's ass and horses' tails as all but three of the horses defied their masters and took off running!

There was also an incident decades ago in Philly during a riot with horse cops. Ordered to enter a noisy crowd (which horses do NOT want to do), the horses bucked off the cops and charged down the street, for all practical purposes joining the riot themselves.

@nullagent the protesters are nailing them to the wall for failing the kids and parents of Uvalde
@nullagent Where was all this energy for Uvalde?

@nullagent

Maybe next time, think about not going to college in a Red State. The #PartyOfTrump knows you won't vote for them so they will arrest you just for breathing the same air.

@TopKnot @nullagent Because famously there are no police riots in blue states.

What are you talking about? Come on mate, be better.

@nullagent this is fkn bullshit, man.

@nullagent Well, he didn't have a government issued press pass!

/s

@nullagent For those not in the USA, the government doesn't issue press passes. These are a purely private issue document, with as much legal weight as a paper napkin from McDonalds. But, even though this is undeniably true, the police will harass the press and demand "press passes".
@nullagent I mean, when you see a cop horse collar a guy with a professional video camera, it’s pretty clear the message they’re trying to send. Of course, it always backfires, but I guess they don’t give a shit since they just really love beating up reporters.

@alexlubertozzi

I see it like the average dog left alone with the box of dog treats or its favorite food left open. They just can't help themselves. They'll literally eat untill they're barfing and probably keep eating.

At some point someone has to come home to take the food away.

@nullagent Absolute 10/10 analogy. Perfectly stated.
@nullagent snatched from the crowd for no valid reason and then thrown into another cop. Sue them.
@nullagent bloody norah. I’m not saying the US is at a slow-roll civil war, but…
@nullagent This thread is beyond belief.
Are our democracies are a sham, a thin veneer for something now showing it's ugly side in the light of day?
@nullagent FOX7’s legal team is going to have a field day with this footage.
@nullagent honestly it’s nice to see name tags on cops at a protest… which is kinda sad