donray, 14 days ago

@aral

The administration invited an army, and they got a war zone.

The episode makes clear that a militarized police force is not capable of respecting civil and human rights.

aral, 14 days ago

@donray I’m not sure you can call it a war zone when on one side there’s an army and on the other students. I think you call that something else entirely. Even the use of the term “war” by the media to imply a clash of armies is disingenuous at best.

donray, 13 days ago

@aral
#guatemala

It was a professor from Guatemala who said: “I felt like I was in a war zone.”

And he has a basis for comparison.

From the article;
From Guatemala, Keme came to the US as a teenager, escaping “a civil war against my people … involving the Guatemalan army, who received training from Israelis”.

He said: “Police immediately began to force people to move. I felt like I was in a war zone, with all the police and their weapons, the rubber bullets.”