Horse Crippler (Echinocactus texensis), Dugout Wells, Big Bend National Park, Texas.
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🚨 STATE TROOPERS ON THE GROUND IN AUSTIN 🚨 Today, Palestine Solidarity Committee at the University of Texas started their Popular University movement on campus, and were welcomed by massive university and state trooper repression, with at least 16 arrests made so far.
Akin to Columbia, NYU, Harvard, and other universities across the country, UT students sought to host a liberated space on campus to hold programming and demand that their university disclose their investments and divest from Israeli genocide profiteering. University of Texas administration made their intention to repress this movement clear as soon as they caught wind of it, sending a mass email out to UT faculty, claiming that the call to action is from non-student groups, falsely claiming that these encampments call for violence against Jewish students, and using university policy to crack down on our students.
Upon beginning their campus initiative, students were welcomed by a draconian police presence, refusing to allow them to use their campus space for political speech. DPS, including horse mounted state troopers, violently handled student protesters, pushing them away from their desired campus space, and demanding dispersal. Students have held steadfast, refusing to heed until their demands are met.
So far, police and state troopers have made at least 16 arrests, with more likely to result as the state cracks down on these brave students. We stand with our students, and remain by their side! FROM COLUMBIA TO AUSTIN TO GAZA, WE STAND TALL 🇵🇸
-- Palestinian Youth Movement, 24 Apr 2024 3:27 PM EDT
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Some updates about the protests and subsequent arrests (plus charges and bookings) at UT Austin.
Initial statement by UT Austin admin:
DPS (Texas state troopers/riot cops, Greg Abbot’s personal army) begins to escalate
Students note that DPS has no problem manhandling and marching on peaceful protestors, unlike that time they sat on their phones and harassed concerned parents while kindergartners were left to bleed out in their classrooms.
DPS - along with their semi-automatics, 200 rounds of rifle ammo, and HORSES - don’t take kindly to that. Abbot continues to forget how to shut the fuck up.
50-75 people are arrested, including a journalist who was initially accused of assaulting an officer when he accidentally nudged the cop with his camera due to the surging of the crowd.
This is illegal btw, thanks to state laws Abbott himsef signed into being.
Thanks, mate.
Faculty and local officials take a stand against the DPS.
And finally, the terrifying protest plans that required the state troopers to come arrest these dangerous terrorists… (/s)
Horrifying, isn’t it?
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