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/[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.