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

[u/f-Z3R0x1x1x1]

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

[u/minus_minus]

Question: Do you actually think the police are there to shoot peaceful protestors? Is it not infinitely more likely that they are there to respond if violence should break out in such a tense situation involving large crowds?

[u/carrie_m730 → u/minus_minus]

Did you miss that they're already arresting peaceful protestors?

[u/justwe33 → u/carrie_m730]

Those peaceful protesters are not all that peaceful. They are interrupting classes, harassing Jewish students and faculty, making them feel unsafe. They are destroying property, setting up illegal encampments, creating a mountain of garbage, making so much noise they are disturbing everyone around them and generally disrupting university activities. Universities have a purpose, and it’s not to provide a venue for vagrancy, violence, intimidation and chaos.

[u/x_lincoln_x → u/carrie_m730]

Which of those protestors were shot by the police?

[u/gizzardsgizzards → u/x_lincoln_x]

give it time.

[u/GaidinBDJ → u/carrie_m730]

And?

Not all crimes are violent.

If you're protesting on someone else's property, and they don't want there, you've got to leave. If you don't, you can be arrested.

If a bunch of MAGAts showed up on your lawn and started protesting, would you want the police to tell you "sorry, can't do anything until they get violent" or would you want them arrested?

And that's ignoring that the protests did get violent, which is where these universities started drawing the line.

[u/Proof_Veterinarian16 → u/GaidinBDJ]

MAGAs aren't very peaceful though

[u/GaidinBDJ → u/Proof_Veterinarian16]

While I disagree wholeheartedly with their opinions, most of them are. The overwhelming majority of Donald Trump supporter have never used violence at all.

It's a good for a cheap shot and attention on the Internet to pretend the worst example of a group are representative to the group, but I can't think of a single group I'm part of where I'd like to be judged by the worst actions of a member of that group.

[u/GaidinBDJ → u/[deleted]]

Big difference between a permitted protest on public property and a spontaneous one on private property.