The University of Texas at Austin has 'delisted' this video so that it's harder to find.

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• phoneymouse@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fifty-seven people had been booked into the Travis County Jail in connection to the protest, Travis County sheriff’s office spokesperson Kristen Dark said Thursday morning

  All have had their charges disposed, Dark said, but it was unclear how many people had been released from the jail as of Thursday morning

  They just arrest people and let them go… just for a photo op I would guess.

  If you’re arresting people and letting them go without charges, you shouldn’t be arresting them in the first place.

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  • theareciboincident@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In North Korea, the state security forces can just grab you and lock you up for no reason, beating you up, taking your wallet as civil forfeiture, making you lose your job, and dropping you off miles from home with no transportation.

    Good thing that could never happen in the US!

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    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don't think that's the kind of thing people talk about when they say North Korea is oppressive

      Do you know what happens to you in North Korea the day after you attend a protest against the government's policies? Because it definitely isn't getting dropped off and having to find your own way back home.

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not about arrests. It’s about sending a message.

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  • Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They dont care about convictions. They just want the kids to fuck off so that they can go back to their daily routine of donut eating and spousal abuse.

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  • Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do these arrests without further charges show up on these people’s criminal records? I sure hope not.

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    • phoneymouse@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think you need to be convicted of a crime… though it’s possible the arrest record is searchable.

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• mozz@mbin.grits.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  who is this random stranger setting up a table talking about a thing I find upsetting but it's protected by state law

  "Well, we didn't mean these kinds of things I find upsetting."

  "What kinds of things in terms of upsetting speech were you planning on protecting vigorously?"

  "Oh... well, you know..."

  (I also like the little construction where they imply Texas invented the first amendment)

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  • DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Everything is bigger in Texas” - especially the lies

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Seriously, what even is the basis for this interview? They’re acting like it’s surprising to allow political speech on campus or for tax payers to be able to use the public university they fund

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    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They were trying to justify why it's okay for conservatives to come and set up a table and hand out cryptofascist literature. Giving the interview was lecturing any left wing students that they need to get used to that because it's not stopping. Like a lot of their principles, they were only meaning for it to be applied in one direction.

      I do think they were surprised that they'd even need to deal with refusing to apply it in the opposite direction, because I think there is a general assumption in the minds of modern conservatives that all the "normal people" agree with them, and so it's always a little bit of a shock if a big bunch of people are unanimously against them (even if, in a logical sense, it shouldn't be surprising).

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• Kalkaline@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Grab a friend in Texas and vote these fools out.

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• poo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What an awful school

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• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If the University is state funded or on state-owned land, that’s probably why.

  Can’t keep citizens from legally using state property. It’s not “rules” as she put it, it’s civics 101.

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  • thatgirlwasfire@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The reason people are bringing this up now, is because they have been arresting people protesting the Isreal Palestine war. So it seems this video was a lie.

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• realcaseyrollins ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Based.

  Don't destroy campus property or block the walkways and you won't get in trouble. If you can't make your point without doing all that, your point isn't strong enough.