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  1. 1 hour ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

    I just emailed the holder of my family's endowed Chair in the McCombs School of Business and encouraged him to add his support.

    Along these lines, I just emailed the homeless guy my dad gave a sandwich to mow our yard one time and asked him to sign a letter of protest.

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  2. 1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

    For everyone who has talked of leaving and hasn’t yet, why haven’t you? Doing the right thing is always easy, right?

    How many of us have been ordered to have riot police arrest protesting students?

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  3. 36 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

    https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/2024/04/26/ut-austin-pro-palestinian-protest-charges-dropped-against-all-57-people-arrested/73468467007/

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    Charges dropped against all 57 arrested in connection to UT-Austin pro-Palestinian protest

    All charges have been declined against the 57 people arrested in connection to the Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas.

    The Travis County attorney's office said all 57 arrests, which were all criminal trespassing charges, lacked probable cause.

    County Attorney Delia Garza, whose office handles misdemeanor cases, told the American-Statesman on Thursday that her office agreed with defense lawyers that there were "deficiencies" with the probable cause arrest affidavits, which are the documents filled out by law enforcement to justify an arrest. At that time on Thursday, 46 of the 57 had charges declined.

    While state police with the Texas Department of Public Safety and officers with the Austin Police Department were seen handcuffing people at Wednesday's protest, all 57 arrests were technically by the University of Texas Police Department. This means university police filled out each of the 57 probable cause affidavits.

     

    Nouha Ezouhri, an attorney with the Travis County public defender's office, helped file jail release forms for those arrested at the protest. She told the Statesman on Thursday that it looked like university police "copied and pasted" each probable cause affidavit for every person arrested.

     

    "That's not how it's supposed to be," Ezouhri said.

    Everyone arrested in connection to the protest was released from the Travis County Jail on Thursday by mid-afternoon, said Travis County sheriff's office spokesperson Kristen Dark.

    None of the protesters faced felony charges, the Travis County district attorney's office confirmed.

    Although the charges have been dropped, it's possible that police could decide to fill out more probable cause affidavits and press charges against those arrested, George Lobb, an attorney with the Austin Lawyers Guild, told the Statesman. Police have two years to bring charges against those they arrested under Texas' statute of limitations for misdemeanors.

    Stephanie Jacksis, spokesperson for the University of Texas Police Department, said she's uncertain if UT police intend to do that.

    This is a developing story. Check back for more updates.

     

    What’s the big deal? Don’t we all have jobs where we can fuck up 57 out of 57 times in one day and yet keep cashing out taxpayer-funded paychecks?

  4. 20 minutes ago, troph said:

    this is what I'm saying. No fucking way Hartzell asked for help and here comes the goons, in mass numbers, in full riot gear, there in force quickly. BULLSHIT.

    Right. That didn’t happen. He asked for this AHEAD OF TIME. 

    I have no idea why you’re willing to die on this hill. Stop bending over backwards to justify obvious fascism.

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  5. 38 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

    This is from the group that organized this weeks UT pro-Palestine event  

     

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    As noted Jew Albert Einstein once said, “the ironing is delicious”.
     

    IMG_6041.thumb.jpeg.645e31fafbadebe8d41eb885a0de8191.jpeg 

     

    That this organization petitioned to silence another organization is irrelevant. I generally disagree with that approach, but they didn’t waive their own right to free speech by advocating that another group should be silenced. 

     

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  6. 1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:

    Again, y’all just need to search for posts with the word “speech” made by Johnny Sack . . . to realize he’s completely full of shit and simply trolling

    Oh I’m quite capable of realizing Sack is full of shit without going to all that trouble.

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  7. 1 minute ago, YGIFS said:

    Same way several dozen DPS troopers in riot gear happened upon the site within minutes.  Even given the geographic proximity, a deployment like that without an advanced briefing doesn't "just happen."  This was set to occur last night/early this morning.  For performative purposes 

    You’re not answering the question. Someone at UT had to tell those fucksticks what was about to happen. Abbott didn’t divine it himself. 

  8. 4 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    This is Abbott, Longoria, and Eltife.

    And how did those three catch wind of the plans of a UT student organization?

  9. Just now, YGIFS said:

    My larger worry is he won't give up the goods on the folks up the food-chain that fucked him and our school on this. 

    Thats what I’m saying. You’re fucked either way, Jay. Why not grow a pair and stand up for what’s right, rather than carry water for authoritarian shitbags?

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  10. 1 minute ago, YGIFS said:

    tl; dr, we are in for months of finger pointing and national shame.  

    New Texas state motto?

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  11. 6 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    a good chunk of people seriously believe these protests are nothing but about anti-semitism. 

    And if there’s any group that uniformly opposes antisemites, it’s MAGA Republicans.

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  12. Just now, Captainant said:

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    What an absolute sack of bullshit outta Hartzell

    Did he issue that today? Or is it just an empty platitude he previously uttered?

  13. 4 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    There was no violence, nor threat of violence, except from the fucking cops.

    Well that is certainly a surprising and unprecedented turn of events!

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  14. 5 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    The fact that the President's office nor the Chancellor's office have said a word about it yet gives me even greater pause.  

    In recent years, I have grown more and more ashamed of my affiliation with the University of Texas. Today did not help. 

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  15. 25 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    "Trust me, bro. They fly Hamas flags."

    Hamas flags are the new terrorist fist bump?

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