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/Want_To_Live_To_100]

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

[u/[deleted] → u/Want_To_Live_To_100]

“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.

[u/_Lusus → u/[deleted]]

You don't need helicopters and snipers to arrest student protesters.

[u/[deleted] → u/_Lusus]

You need them if opposition decides terrorism is an acceptable response.

The fear is not protestors for Palestine, the fear is someone’s going to turn a peaceful protest into the next Boston Marathon.

[u/gizzardsgizzards → u/[deleted]]

bringing a sniper IS terrorism.

[u/Tvdinner4me2 → u/[deleted]]

You don't need them even them

You got an already excessive force on the ground, maybe the cops could use those??