… Kent State had a big impact on popular culture but the links don’t seem to be common knowledge
The Kent State shootings: Thirteen seconds of chaos that forever changed rock history
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[University Gaza solidarity protests extend to Mexico: ‘We are urgently calling for an end to genocide’ | International | EL PAÍS English (elpais.com)]
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i think that’s because american schools ( and media ) rarely want to engage with the legacy of negative events in american history.
mainstream culture likes to package them as events which have no echos into the present, and no continuing responsibilities. “mistakes were made”, and all that. ( enslavement and segregation being prime examples )
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Hi. Katy, Cody, and Jonathan break down the latest police violence against campus demonstrators and discuss President Biden’s disgraceful statement about “violent protests.” We didn’t initially plan to record an episode this week, so some of our audio is a little wonky – thanks for bearing with us!
TrueAnon Episode 374: Quad Squad
We hit the books and head back to school, checking out a couple of university encampments and comparing what we saw to what columnists and politicians are saying. Then we talk Israel, deflections, and students and donors as customers.
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Standard Operating Procedure.
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Denounced by progressive youth for his policy of support for Israel and accused by the Republican right of allowing chaos in universities to flourish, the US president is in a delicate political situation.
Sucks that he thinks he should give a proverbial flying fuck what the Republican right thinks about it.
When has the right ever done anything (or not done something) because they fear what the left thinks, or will say, or do? Hell, they say and do a lot of what they say and do precisely because they think it will “trigger the libs”!
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While officers told the paper there were no serious injuries sustained by protesters, “the scenes inside the encampment and its medical tent tell a different story,” wrote five reporters covering the mess.
… and yet no matter how many fact checks police fail, the media keep quoting them like they’re a reliable source of information 
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As we all know, Teen Vogue does actual journalism:
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“Accidentally” and “fired a weapon” have no business in the same sentence. If a weapon is loaded (and one should always assume it is) and the safty is off, you are prepared to kill something, or someone. It should be impossible to “accidentally” load, draw and prepare to fire. The incompetence is mind-boggling.
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I actually apply that truth to the bigger picture: Columbia’s president called in the police a day after her testimony in DC – against the recommendation of her own board – presumably in an attempt to save her position. She knew that would put the students at risk, up to and including death.Fortunately, no one died. But she wouldn’t have known that when she chose to unleash militarily-armed officers against peaceful students.
Don’t call the police to do your dirty work for you.
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Just to be clear: the testimony was against the recommendation of her board, or calling the cops was against the recommendation?
This.
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I think the worst part is the excuse used: he was using a flashlight attachment on his pistol. In other words, he drew a loaded gun, with the safety off, and put his finger on the trigger to use a fucking flashlight.
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In gun culture, there is a segment that prefers the use of “negligent discharge” over “accidental”, with good reason. The times when a gun fires accidentally is possible, but exceedingly rare. Most of the time, there is a failure in how it is being handled (finger on the trigger when not intending to fire, as @nosaj said)
Of course, the cops can’t allow this sort of thinking:
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I very much prefer that as well.
I worked for an industrial and medical gas supplier for a while; they took driving safety very very seriously. Very welcome, in a business where transporting a truckful of high-pressure cylinders of welding gas was a normal day-to-day activity. We were never allowed to use the term “accident”, only “crash”. As one manager put it “The term ‘accident’ is strictly reserved for toddlers who are toilet training.”
That is maddening.
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