Update, yes there are snipers:
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Remember that US intelligence services speculated in using snipers to kill "Occupy Wall Street" protesters on university campuses.
FBI coordinated with banks and universities to get information on students.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy
Wtf... Cops in riot gear arresting students before 10pm, and fucking SNIPERS intimidating in a peaceful one night protest on a college campus. And a university spokesperson saying "demonstrators exercised their first amendment right for several hours and then were instructed to disperse" like yeah, that's enough first amendment right for you guys, go be quiet now.
Nope. Just nope. You are not free. Burn it all to the ground before it's too late or we're actually fucked.
I was with you until the "burn it all to the ground".
If you don't have something to replace it with, the rich and powerful will simply take advantage of the chaos.
Tear down the bad, but keep the good, and build more good.
Hey keep me out of your circus. Just please don't drag the rest of the world down with you.
Disinformation post ahead of election season - big shocker.
These aren’t snipers, they’re spotters. You can’t even make out what is in front of the dude in all black.
OPs only response to the closest thing we have to real fact being given was “I don’t buy it”
Seems legit. Toodles.
And now you’re deleting my posts lol. What a joke.
I would have left it if you didn't spam shit at the bottom
I thought you were done. You used the yawn emoji.
Dude, I don't care
No need to get bent out of shape, was just defending myself and enriching the comment section with more context.
So sorry
Look, can we start this over? I don’t like how this played out and I too was getting bent out of shape for what was likely good-intentions.
I’d understand if you were still upset and needed some time yet, totally fine
Lemmy is supposed to be better than Reddit culture, and be more civilized, and I feel like this was a fail here. I’d like to try again and maybe we can have some civil discourse about this if you’re up for it
The conversation I meant, but I agree with adding an edit with more information
I think that’s just fair reporting
As far as the conversation goes what do you want to discuss?
Is there a way we could freedom of information act additional information from the police regarding body cam/an official report?
They might lie, but at least we’d have a physical ledger of lies to point to in the future?
Maybe? I don't know if that's worth the time though. Even if no rifle exists up there they could bring one up whenever. I'm sure there is security footage though of them hauling supplies in.
copy pasta that gets Chinese propaganda pushers in trouble with Winnie The Pooh
What parallel universe are libs living in 😭😭
Love the racism there too. Really brings the whole thing together
Where do you think the administration got the info that its just spotters from? Cops. The fact that they even called the cops is a red flag.
What the fuck does this have to do with the election?
Because it’s better than believing an unregulated social media site that’s been proven to pedal disinformation repeatedly??
A platform owned by the richest man in the world who happens to be the son of South African apartheid?
A platform for which he removed fact checking on?
The only picture you have, you can’t even make out what’s in front of them?
Can I ask why you deleted my comment that had the Tiananmen Square Massacre copy pasta?
The irony of complaining about "disinformation" while spamming disinformation yourself lmao
So is the guy with a big ol' rifle a spotter too?
Maybe if you'd considered what spotters are for you wouldn't be baselessly asserting that US police aren't preparing to use unreasonable force.
We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it But we tried to fight it
Indiana University also has snipers: https://lemmy.ml/comment/10599404
