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- globalnews@lemmy.zip
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- globalnews@lemmy.zip
LOS ANGELES, May 24 (Reuters) - Three weeks after a mob attacked pro-Palestinian activists encamped at the University of California, Los Angeles, police have made their first arrest in the violence, a man they say was seen in video footage beating victims with a wooden pole.
The suspect, identified as Edan On, 18, was taken into custody on Thursday in the city of Beverly Hills and booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, the UCLA Police Department said in a statement on Friday.
The man, who police said had no affiliation with UCLA, was reported by local media to be a Beverly Hills High School student.
The problem with peaceful protests is that they attract violent people who attack them. So, TPTB ban the peaceful protestors.
What happens if a select few of the peaceful protestors happened to be armed in places where doing so publicly is legal? The peaceful protestors are protected from violence by a select few exercising their second amendment right to bear arms. Pretty hard to ban those peaceful protestors.
The black Panthers tried that. Not saying it shouldn’t be done again but let’s learn from what happened to them.
I mean, if nothing else they got Republicans to embrace gun control.
The Panthers were systematically killed by the state for a reason. They were an actual threat to the status quo.
Pretty easy to start shooting at them with their rooftop snipers though.
Don’t start a shooting war with the cops. It doesn’t help the movement for peace and you won’t win.