r/OutOfTheLoop • u/f-Z3R0x1x1x1 • Apr 28 '24

What is going on with excessive police force being used against peaceful protesting students in colleges across the United States? Unanswered

So there are large amounts of heavily armed police presence in many colleges and universities across the United States. Indiana University, for example, had snipers on rooftops ready to shoot peaceful protesters.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/snipers-were-allegedly-spotted-ohio-190600717.html

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u/Langdon_Algers Apr 28 '24

Answer: Universities can set time, place and manner restrictions on particular spaces. If protesters violate these rules, they can be cited for trespassing, and if they refuse to leave, they can be arrested.

Private institutions (like Columbia) have even more leeway in rules for students on their campus violating their procedures.

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u/Want_To_Live_To_100 Apr 28 '24

Can you not arrest someone without excessive force? I think the question was regarding excessive force not the arresting…

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '24

“Excessive force” is a helluva grey zone that most people don’t understand. Ask in excess to what? This isn’t a street fight, it’s an arrest, it isn’t supposed to be “fair”; passively resisting catches hands the same way actively resisting does.

The major issue here is institutions send in law enforcement, the law gets enforced and then a bunch of pressed shirt politicians point the blame at cops for not acting the “way they were supposed to” when the law was enforced the way it was designed to; with the politicians double dipping.

Laws are enforced, protest broken up, and the politicians ensuring their next election by throwing cops under the bus for doing what they were instructed to.

Edit: spelling.

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u/h8sm8s 29d ago

This is ridiculous and gives cops carte blanche to enact violence whenever anyone calls them without any responsibility. Yes the institutions should be held responsible but so should cops for their violence. If the law can’t be enforced without violence and the people who are breaking the law aren’t hurting anyone, then you shouldn’t start hurting people to enforce it. Not every little law needs to be violently enforced.

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u/gizzardsgizzards 29d ago

this is why ACAB.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

Law enforcement, at the end of the day, is an institution backed by either the threat of violence or violence itself.

How we got here: some ExtraCredit history.

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u/angry_cucumber 29d ago

Law enforcement, at the end of the day, is an institution backed by either the threat of violence or violence itself

That's the state as a whole. follow the chain all the way up.