What’s happening at Columbia?

[George K]

Cry harder:

[89th]

I love it.

[Jolly]

@89th said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

I bet google searches of "how to set up a tent" has gone through the roof

I'm sure these came with instructions. I saw several on their "campground".

https://www.thenorthface.com/en-us/bags-and-gear/gear-c829821/wawona-4-tent-pNF0A52VL?color=Y10

Note the price, although I'm sure they can be found cheaper.

[Jolly]

@George-K said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

Cry harder:

Again, I'm all for being fair. Charge and prosecute the students for misdemeanors. If they miss finals, tough cookies.

Charge and prosecute any non-students vigorously. If that also means misdemeanors, so be it. If they are known agitators, throw the book at them.

[George K]

@Jolly said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

If they are known agitators, throw the book at them.

Do you think Fani has some tips?

[taiwan_girl]

I think that these "protests" will quickly die down now. Two weeks from now, there wont be much left, especially after the semester has ended for most of the schools.

[Jolly]

@George-K said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

@Jolly said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

If they are known agitators, throw the book at them.

Do you think Fani has some tips?

Probably has two. Ask Nathan Wade.

[Renauda]

I watched much the Columbia dispersal and roundup live last evening on the television - FYI, not on a US news channel either.

I thought the NYPD undertook their mission in a measured and determined professional fashion. My congratulations to them. I hope too see similar here should the need arise.

Ultimately though, as was demonstrated two years ago in Ottawa, police restraint in these matters is almost wholly dependent on the rabble and its ringleaders. Sometimes chips will fly.

[George K]

@Renauda said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

I thought the NYPD undertook their mission in a measured and determined professional fashion. My congratulations to them. I hope too see similar here should the need arise.

Ultimately though, as was demonstrated two years ago in Ottawa, police restraint in these matters is almost wholly dependent on the rabble and its ringleaders. Sometimes chips will fly.

I read a report that stated that tear gas was NOT used in the entry into Hamilton Hall, but they did make use of flash-bangs.

[Mik]

No point. They were already crying.

[Renauda]

@George-K

….made use of flash bangs

As they should going into an occupied building or area where there was the possibility of belligerence and weapons of any sort being used to resist law enforcement. If the occupants were frightened, saw stars and their ears rang for a few hours or more after, that’s just too bad for them. They ought not to have been there in the first place.

[Mik]

We are adjacent on the sympathy scale.

[George K]

[jon-nyc]

I hope they have video. They can’t charge individuals for vandalism and property destruction unless they can show they personally did it. Without video they’d probably be stuck with criminal trespass or something to that effect.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

I hope they have video.

Good points. I'd be surprised if they don't.

[George K]

@George-K said in What’s happening at Columbia?:

Supposedly, at UCLA a Jewish girl was beaten unconscious.

[jon-nyc]

That one might be fake. No news outlets are covering it and it looks like the first responders have Hebrew lettering on their shirts. Old video repurposed?

[George K]

[George K]

[Copper]

Remember when Viet Nam ended? And so did the protests.

So instead of protesting, college students started streaking.

I remember there was a giant streak organized. A few hundred streakers running across the quad, on a sunny Spring afternoon. I think it lasted a couple hours, I watched for a while.