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SCOOP: An NYPD officer fired their gun inside Hamilton Hall during the Columbia raid on Tuesday, Manhattan DA confirms.

thecity.nyc/2024/05/02/nyp…

“Young people are seeing something brutal and they are freaking out about it, with and without nuance. This is where they should be in this moment, as they are opening their eyes to what that world actually contains.”

slate.com/news-and-polit…

FYI I'm hearing this Title VI racial discrimination investigation was opened VERY quickly, just a week after Palestine Legal filed a complaint.

And of course just a few days after Columbia again called in the NYPD to clear out pro-Palestinian protestors on campus.

A new report found that 99% of campus protests over Palestine at US colleges have been peaceful, despite remarks from Biden characterizing such demonstrations as violent.

Gloria Oladipo reports on the latest data from Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project:
theguardian.com/us-news/live/2…

The way some people (& the white house & cable news) are talking about the protests reminds me so much of how MAGA types discussed 'critical race theory' and how bad and scary it was. Just zero regard for the facts + fake hand-wringing about concern for the kids. Very Trumpy.

Worth listening to all this. Another protestor saying that NYPD pulling off hijabs of several women in booking, in the presence of male officers.

The news media continues to allow Mayor Eric Adams to spew lies about my 63-year-old mother. Not pushing back is as shameful as his inflammatory claims.

actually almost all of that is peaceful protest

Here's an Amnesty International report on how rubber bullets can kill and maim:
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

For context: All available documentation of protests suggests that the violence came from police. At UCLA. hours of it came from a pro-Israel/anti-Palestine mob that came with plants/sticks/noxious gas.

At UCLA, pro-Israel counterprotesters broadcast loud sounds — an eagle screeching, a child crying — and blasted a Hebrew rendition of “Baby Shark” on repeat, late at night, so campers couldn’t sleep. They sprayed bear mace and shouted, “Second Nakba!”latimes.com/california/sto…

Please read this —>

This piece by my UCLA colleague, Prof. David Myers, accurately describes what I also witnessed on UCLA's campus on Sunday. To keep the peace, we both put ourselves between some pro-Palestinian protesters (who were mostly disciplined and non-confrontational) and a small…

As she tried to break free, one UCLA student journalist said, she was punched repeatedly in the chest and upper abdomen; another student journalist was pushed to the ground and beaten and kicked for nearly a minute.
latimes.com/california/sto…

Pressed to back up his claims that 'outside agitators' co-opted Columbia's protests, Mayor Eric Adams has repeatedly mentioned a woman on campus whose husband was 'convicted for terrorism.'

I spoke to that woman – a 63-year-old retired teacher – earlier today. apnews.com/article/columb…

Rafael makes the 'Spike' missile, which military analysts suspect was used in the April 1 drone killing of seven WCK aid workers. Rafael and IAI's vast catalog of drones, missiles, and other weapons systems have been used extensively on Gaza during this and previous wars

Google has repeatedly claimed that Project Nimbus doesn't involve 'weapons'—but a document I obtained states Israel Aerospace Industries and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems are both obligated to buy their cloud services through Nimbus. Google declined to explain this.

At least 194 children were groomed or sexually abused by police officers through the Boy Scouts-run 'Explorer' program that helps kids 'learn about policing,' per the The Marshall Project
themarshallproject.org/2024/05/01/pol…