Unthinking Majority wrote:You can't arrest someone for protesting or having specific political views, that's illegal. A crime needs to be committed.
I was at a protest once where a cop came along and pushed a woman to the ground. As she was falling, she splayed her arms out to catch herself and accidentally brushed the arm of a police officer. She was then charged with assaulting a police officer.
So, yes, a crime needs to be committed. Cops can find a crime being committed wherever they want to. If need be, they can force the issue.
The protestors were camping in tents and occupying a part of the university without authorization. Things started getting more heated near a Jewish holiday, non-students were joining the protests/occupation, Jews on campus were harassed and intimidated, classes were being disrupted to the point where the semester is to be completed remotely. No doubt the school admin asked the protestors to leave and they refused. I'd assume the cops asked them to leave also and they still refused. At that point, the only way to get lawbreakers to leave was to arrest and/or suspend them.
Thanks for explaining why I am right that only critics of Israel were arrested.
If Jewish students weren't arrested it's because they weren't camping out on campus without authorization and refusing to leave when asked. You're trying to make the pro-Palestine supporters to be victims of unjust police violence, this narrative appears false. If it's true the students can successfully sue the police and the school.
If the only crime was putting up tents and saying things critical to Israel, then arresting them is ridiculous.
Unthinking Majority wrote:The same thing happened in Canada in Ottawa where a protestor told a large crowd "Long live Oct 7th". They are looking into hate speech charges I believe. I highly doubt the Calgary hate speech charge will be upheld. I don't believe in hate speech laws except for threatening/inciting violence. These people are directly advocating terrorism and genocide.
Unthinking Majority wrote:That's not what the Columbia protestors in the video above meant at all though. Both of them are advocating terrorism and the targeted mass murder of civilians.
Since you do not have a magic mind reading machine, this is unverifiable speculation and can be ignored.
Unthinking Majority wrote:But do you have evidence of this conspiracy theory of yours happening in this case?
A conspiracy is supposed to be covert. This is not. It is completely open and legal and therefore does not fit the definition of a conspiracy theory.
The universities have donors. The donations are often in the millions of dollars. The donors are threatening the universities with withholding funds. The universities, therefore, have financial incentives to crack down on anyone criticizing Israel.
The donors even admit this publicly.
Note that the people protesting the war are calling for an end to violence whole the Zionists are supporting violence by enacting a genocide as we speak.
This whole “calling for violence is bad” is theatre.