The NYPD said in a statement on Thursday night that an unnamed Emergency Service Unit officer was using a firearm’s flashlight attachment to illuminate a barricade inside Hamilton Hall
dear god. don’t point a gun at someone unless you plan to kill them. a flashlight f’ing attachment is insane for cops to be using in peaceful protest
Focusing on all the wrong things due to misinformation:
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/03/biden-college-protest-violence-00156111
Which I guess is slightly better than focusing on all the wrong things due to rampant misogyny:
Suspension just for having a Palestinian last name? Yeah, sure, it’s all about anti-semitism.
The Times’s coverage of the protests has generally been pretty abysmal, so I was cautiously surprised to see this at the very top of the front page.
The videos showed counterprotesters attacking students in the pro-Palestinian encampment for several hours, including beating them with sticks, using chemical sprays and launching fireworks as weapons.
Police arrived hours later, but they did not intervene immediately
none of the videos analyzed by The Times show any clear instance of encampment protesters initiating confrontations with counterprotesters beyond defending the barricades.
a lot of those photos seem to be by sergio olmos who did a lot of good reporting about portland during the black lives matter protests there
I was flipping through the news channels this morning on the way to MeTv Saturday morning cartoons and came across this story on Fox.
The frat house involved(no wait, the organizer doesn’t even belong to a fraternity) raised 500 grand, not for aid to children harmed or displaced families, nothing like that, they raised money for a kegger that got the attention of moron John Rich who’s going to help them spend the money on beer.
Update: We are overwhelmed by you glorious, Patriotic Americans who value good beer and great times. We are in contact with multiple leaders from different fraternities whose members helped defend the flag. Our gratitude goes to all of them and we will update supporters on what comes next.
Commie losers across the country have invaded college campuses to make dumb demands of weak University Administrators.
But amidst the chaos, the screaming, the anti-semitism, the hatred of faith and flag, stood a platoon of American heroes. Armored in Vineyard Vines and Patagonia, fueled by Zyn and White Claws, these triumphant Brohemians protected Old Glory from the unwashed Marxist horde – laughing at their shrieks and wails and shielding the Stars & Stripes from Soviet missiles.
These boys… no, men, of the UNC frats, gave the best to America and now they deserve the best.
Help us raise funds to throw these frats the party they deserve, a party worth of the boat-shoed Broleteriat who did their country proud.
Still spreading, still getting ridiculous pushback.
Same place where Nazis marched unimpeded. 
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/04/republicans-palestinian-protests-gaza-israel-hamas
GOP takes the offensive on pro-Palestinian protests
House Republicans are preparing to pressure colleges to stem violence and destruction at campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told Axios in an interview.
They want universities to tell the militarized police to pull back, and take the “counter-protestors” with them?
No? Weird, I thought they wanted to stem the violence. 
Another sad lesson of that time is that the big lie works. Even now, a sizeable proportion of the public who were alive at the time, still blame the victims.
