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.
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 a police state in 1968 and became one later. Dude posts about Kent State which happened in 1970 to show how we were already a police state around that time. How you manage to read that as saying things haven’t gotten worse since 1970 is beyond me.