Shafik authorizes NYPD to sweep ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment,’ officers in riot gear arrest over 100
MajorSauce, I don’t have anything to add, but I wanted to thank you, OP, for the comments/links in the thread.
AnarchoBolshevik, 
…am I the only one who misread ‘NYPD’ as ‘NSDAP’?
TeddyKila, (edited ) misread
Ultragigagigantic, (edited ) 
First they came for the students, and we said “fuck them”
Ultragigagigantic, The lack of justice system reforms across the nation is the 1% telling us the George floydd protests didn’t go far enough.
Cowbee, Fascists gotta protect genocide, after all.
Linkerbaan, 
America trying to reach the same level of Nazism as israel. Bidolf Hitler is on the case.
Pollux, (edited ) NYU sending this to students they called the cops on apparently
Alsephina,
zephyreks, I have disabled students participating in the peaceful encampment/protests @UConn. When cops arrived they put hands on one of my disabled students & dislocated their shoulder. This student is still there, but injured. If @uconn says there are no injuries, that is a lie.
deadbeef79000, Reasonably sure this is what the 2nd Amendment is for.
Liz, For real though, if the protesters all showed up open carrying rifles the cops would just stand back and watch.
deadbeef79000, Eh, not quite what I was going for.
This is the tyranny that an armed populace is supposed to be protection from.
But thinking about it, an armed protest would be among the first steps.
whoreticulture, Only if they were white supremacists.
davel, 
The police have ever been henchmen of the capitalist class that has ever ruled this country. Their core purpose is to protect the capitalists’ private property—historically including chattel slaves—and to discipline labor.
Now that we’ve reached imperialism, the monopoly stage of capitalism, the police are brutalizing anyone who stands between the capitalists and their imperial interests, in this case their interests in West Asia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_brutality#History
Early records suggest that labor strikes were the first large-scale incidents of police brutality in the United States, including events like the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, the Pullman Strike of 1894, the 1912 Lawrence textile strike, the Ludlow massacre of 1914, the Great Steel Strike of 1919, and the Hanapepe massacre of 1924.
The racist roots of American policing: From slave patrols to traffic stops
TL;DR: ACAB
nekandro,
Zerush, 
The more totalitarian a government is, the more the police become henchmen of the leaders.
nekandro,
nekandro, Lol the OP missed the biggest part: journalists are being locked up for daring to photograph this shit
zephyreks,
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