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.
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The column of cops plowed its way into the peaceful crowd of students.
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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.
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The students have posted a request for jail support either by calling for release or with bail donations.
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I'm dying... they arrested a photographer from the local news station FOX7 and the person recording here is a local NBC reporter 😂
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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
Despite the chaos of a simmering police riot, the student reporters continue asking hard hitting questions.
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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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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
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
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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.
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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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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 . . .
The student's numbers on the ground and spirit remained high.
They eventually re-took the South Lawn!
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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. ✊🏿🇵🇸
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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 🤣
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.
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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/
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
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.
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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!
The posts from 2hrs ago show the energized students re-building their encampment.
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About an hour ago a column of cops showed up and began surrounding the encampment.
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The cops could be seen barging into the encampment and taking the student's mutual aid supplies.
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Annnd the cops went right back to last week's ultra effective strategy of arresting a couple dozen students. 🙄
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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.
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@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.
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 Well, he didn't have a government issued press pass!
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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.
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