Students barricaded the entrances and unfurled a Palestinian flag out of a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war.

Dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University in New York early Tuesday, barricading entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag from a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war on college campuses nationwide. The school promised they would face expulsion.

The occupation at Columbia — where protesters shrugged off an ultimatum to abandon a tent encampment Monday or be suspended — unfolded as other universities stepped up efforts to clear out encampments. Police swept through some campuses, spurring confrontations with protesters and plenty of arrests. In rarer instances, university officials and protest leaders have struck agreements to restrict the disruption to campus life.

      • @disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
        16•2 months ago

        If you believe that police corruption and emboldenment has remained the same for the last sixty years, you have some reading to do.

          • @disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
            9•2 months ago

            You responded to my comment regarding increased police state with an historical act of police violence. Sure, there was always corruption. I’m suggesting it’s now the standard, not the exception.

                • Ramune
                  -3•2 months ago

                  Your original comment in response to the 1968 Vietnam protests stated “before we got all police-statey”, which any reasonable reading would see it as implying we were not police-statey in 1968 and became so later. Dude posts about Kent State which happened in 1970 to show what makes them believe we were already police-statey around that time. How you manage to read that as saying things haven’t gotten worse since 1970 is beyond me.

                  Edit: I’m not here to debate the definition of police state or whether we are one, I’m here to point out what is and isn’t there in the actual comments

        • @disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
          2•2 months ago

          The biggest motivation for colleges to end the protests is safety liability. From what I’ve seen, it’s been largely the police that are making the protests unsafe.

    • @bartolomeo@suppo.fi
      3•2 months ago

      Yeah, but that was a different time. Y’know, before we got all police-statey even against whites.

      FTFY