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Update, yes there are snipers:

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[–] [email protected] 249 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (13 children)

Nixon invades Cambodia, campuses across the country erupt in protest, armed troops deployed to deal with the unrest on an Ohio campus, guns pointed at students to intimidate them into dispersing...hmmm, can't remember what happened next...everything calmed down, I think, right?

Edit: Autocorrect betrayed me.

[–] [email protected] 119 points 7 months ago (4 children)

God blessed the students with omniscient insight, so they reverted their concerns and joined the army to establish democracy all over the world. An eagle, sounding like a red-tailed hawk, was heard screeching in the distance.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This summer I hear the drumming.

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[–] [email protected] 176 points 7 months ago (28 children)

We're so different from those godless immoral Chinese communists, something like Tianenman Square would never happen here.

Lol.

Lmao, even.

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[–] [email protected] 149 points 7 months ago

Remember that US intelligence services speculated in using snipers to kill "Occupy Wall Street" protesters on university campuses.

FBI coordinated with banks and universities to get information on students.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy

[–] [email protected] 136 points 7 months ago (4 children)

But don't worry guys! The first amendment guarantees a right to assemble. The police wouldn't ever do anything to infringe on our rights! If they were to do it, I'm sure there'd be a really sick folk song written about it or something

[–] [email protected] 98 points 7 months ago (6 children)

The day Philadelphia bombed its own people: An oral history of a 1985 police bombing that changed the city forever.

On the evening of May 13, 1985, longstanding tensions between MOVE, a black liberation group, and the Philadelphia Police Department erupted horrifically. That night, the city of Philadelphia dropped a satchel bomb, a demolition device typically used in combat, laced with Tovex and C-4 explosives on the MOVE organization, who were living in a West Philadelphia rowhome known to be occupied by men, women, and children. It went up in unextinguished flames. Eleven people were killed, including five children and the founder of the organization. Sixty-one homes were destroyed, and more than 250 citizens were left homeless.

Folks familiar with this incident had a remarkably different take on the Waco siege and subsequent fire that resulted when the FBI surrounded David Koresh's church compound. Same with the Ruby Ridge US Marshal slaying of a white nationalist's wife and son, during an investigation into gun sales.

Then there's the assassination of Fred Hampton and Malcolm X, the police storming of the Occupy Wall Street camps in New York, the COINTELPRO operations that targeted anti-war movements during the Bush Administration, the incredibly violence by police in Ferguson and Baltimore during the BLM marches, police kidnappings in Portland, Seattle, Chicago, and LA during the George Floyd protests.

I got to personally witness the mass arrest of protesters in Houston, after they were surrounded and kettled in Discovery Green Park.

America is a cursed land. Something something maybe don't build your country on an ancient indian burial ground something something.

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Should be treated like they are? Okay, so full outrage, comparisons to the Kent State massacre, and the administration facing reprisals and consequences for deploying snipers to intimidate, threaten, and potentially murder students.

We're treating them like they're snipers, Admin, you're welcome.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Good. Update, they're snipers.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Aye thanks for this. The first pic was up for interpretation. Also WTF?

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (15 children)

If they should be treated like snipers, that means protesters should respond in kind:

Make smoke screens. Tires work best. Bicycle tire with gas will make thick black smoke making it hard for the spotter and sniper to see.

Force projection works both ways: make their advantages into disadvantages. Snipers are long range units, meaning they have to be away from what they are targeting. If you can create enough distractions they won't be able to see the forest from the trees.

All in Minecraft, of course.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Wtf... Cops in riot gear arresting students before 10pm, and fucking SNIPERS intimidating in a peaceful one night protest on a college campus. And a university spokesperson saying "demonstrators exercised their first amendment right for several hours and then were instructed to disperse" like yeah, that's enough first amendment right for you guys, go be quiet now.

Nope. Just nope. You are not free. Burn it all to the ground before it's too late or we're actually fucked.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 7 months ago (14 children)
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[–] [email protected] 62 points 7 months ago (7 children)

So not justifying this response, but they have snipers out for EVERY football game. I think it is standard practice for large gatherings. You can make your own opinions on this, but this isn't a unique thing.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 60 points 7 months ago (13 children)
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[–] [email protected] 59 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

As someone who's worked large events and closely with police or other big wig officials, I am consistently surprised at how people are surprised about how high profile event security works.

The amount of work that goes into keeping people safe regularly is monumental. You'd also be surprised at just how much hard targets don't get attacked when a limelight is cast on them compared to soft targets. It's violence prevention 101 and easily the most important.

If you see something, say something.

PDF warnings:

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/whats-next-soft-target-attacks

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/DHS-Soft-Target-Crowded-Place-Security-Plan-Overview-052018-508_0.pdf

https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/fema_faith-communities_security-soft-targets-crowded-places.pdf

[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Agreed, most of the responses here are ridiculous.

They bring snipers out anytime there's a big event or a major public figure. Michelle Obama visited the University of Akron when I was going there, they had snipers all over the place.

They're not bringing out snipers for some kind of perverted crowd control. It's almost definitely so if someone shows up with a gun and starts firing into the crowd all the protestors don't get shot.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (24 children)

Yep b3causr there's absolutely no difference in armed defense when the president or first lady is visiting and when students are protesting, none at all.

He'll might as well tell the students of tiananmen square that tanks are just a normal part of defence.

🤡

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Le sigh..... Time for another crosspost to a boring distopia.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My God the bootlicking in this thread

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (11 children)

If they’re actually snipers, they suck at their job.

[–] [email protected] 140 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Their job is intimidation, so they are succeeding.

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