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Do police need different tactics when dealing with radicalized college students?

I understand from people in the know, that the police had difficulty handling the BLM uprisings in part because sympathetic people within the police and/or city administrations collaborated with riot organizers, thus putting the organizers one step ahead of the police responses.

Watching the current pro-Hamas/anti-Jew riots on TV suggests the need for different tactics, tactics that don't create photo-ops for the woke media catching "protesters" getting man-handled by the police.

News about some states thinking about calling in the national guard bring up memories of Kent, where student rioters were shot. We don't need that again.

History says that this won't go away. As long as the news cameras are there the riots will continue. Yea, the tail wags the dog until something breaks.

What should the police, the schools, city/state authorities be doing about it?
carpediem · 61-69, M
Let them protest. But the second they interfere with someone else’s daily life, lock them up. I support freedom of speech and expression. But not anarchy. Arrest, prosecute, and make sure punishment is served. That includes a record that stays with them for a lifetime just like anyone else.
missyann · 56-60
I’m not trying to be sarcastic, I have said this before, I do believe that everyone out of high school, wanting to go to college needs to spend two years in our Armed Forces. If, for nothing else six weeks, Boot Camp.

There is a way to stand up for what you believe in but the way these college students and people in general using violence isn’t the way. People also need to learn. That words are NOT violent, unless you make threats of bodily or property harm. I believe it is morally wrong to intentionally end. Liberally hurt a child’s feelings, but by the time you get to college” suck it up buttercup “ grow the hell up
Guardian · 56-60, M
Probably, what police already do. Arrest, detain, and charge. The most egregious will end up in court and convicted.
Guardian · 56-60, M
@wildbill83 sadly, there is no better system.
wildbill83 · 36-40, M
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@Guardian Maybe we should rethink some of that. I grew up in the panty raid generation when student riots were without a cause. The rebel without a cause generation. Once the police showed and pushed back the riots intensified, and the kids found a cause: authority, police. 18-19... 21 year old kids probably have a proclivity to defy authority and all they need is a spark to ignite rebellion.

The riot organizers probably know all this and they intentionally create a police/authority confrontation to activate the rebellion inclinations.

The riot organizers have to be out smarted, somehow. Find a way to turn the organizers themselves into the cause..
DogMan · 61-69, M
If the same thing happened, but the protestors were Republicans,
The Biden admin would have treated them like J6 protestors.
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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
yeah I remember Kent state, and that was going way overboard.
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DogMan · 61-69, M
@Nitedoc If protestors trample my rights, and stop me from going to work, or do
not allow me to travel freely, they NEED to be pepper sprayed, and clubbed if that
doesn't work.
Nitedoc · 51-55, M
@DogMan Their right to hold a peaceful protest ends when they violate innocent peoples rights.
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Heartlander · 80-89, M
@Manneeds I was thinking more like a big net to drop from above so they can’t escape. Or maybe a razor wire wall to block their exit. Keep them contained so all can be arrested.
Manneeds · 41-45, M
@Heartlander i agree with these things 100% !
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