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  1. Oh also Stateman just dropped. Charges dropped for all 57 people arrested. https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/2024/04/26/ut-austin-pro-palestinian-protest-charges-dropped-against-all-57-people-arrested/73468467007/ 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.
  2. Considering that track record includes pre-emptively calling in a company-scale deployment of state troopers to put down a protest because he didn't like their speech and was scared of something happening in CA and NY.... He's got some major fascist points on the board.
  3. And interestingly, the LHB director at the time of the Eyes controversy, Scott Hanna, made all the same mistakes of inaction and over-politicking as Hartzell did. They even look the same, which is pretty weird
  4. I know there's a whole "devil you know" aspect to all of this, but all that keeping Hartzell communicates is that these sorts of fascist abuses of power are completely acceptable and justified
  5. IMO, it is completely fucking irrelevant however he felt while he requested a fucking COMPANY of DPS officers to come into his campus to deprive his students of their freedom of speech. He fucking ordered the code red.
  6. KVUE reporting isn't super clear, but it looks like all the trespass charges have been dropped? https://www.kvue.com/article/news/nation-world/israel-hamas-conflict/ut-austin-protests-charges-dropped/269-fd82fb7f-eeb6-4aeb-a8f9-edfbca08bcef Seeking more info Edit: it looks like they dropped 46 out of 55 cases, not sure what the 9 remaining details are https://versustexas.com/blog/protests-in-texas/
  7. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance We should not seek out and internalize all thought and ignore our own values just because it's different from our own. Society will invariably bend towards the wishes of those who wish to exclude and rule over others. Which wouldn't ya know it, is exactly what fuckin happened when Hartzell invited the jackboot riot cops into campus a day before the event and had em lining up before any protesters even started to arrive
  8. Sorry I didn't quite make it clear, Hartzell had told the soon-to-be-fired DEI staff that they would find a place for them in UT so they would not lose their jobs and livelihood. The DEI program was going away no matter what, but he welched on his commitment to keep them in jobs somewhere at UT.
  9. My guy, the supremes have issued entire rulings constructed whole-cloth out of hypotheticals that have nothing do with the case in front of them. It's what fascists do when they don't have facts on their side: stoke grievances with hypotheticals. See: DT pro-Palestine protest thread
  10. The DEI stuff was compounded because (according to my mom who's an AD for UT student services) hartzell made a big show of telling the staff and faculty that nobody would be losing their job and livelihood over the DEI programs getting shuttered - and then he fired all sixty of em. The staff and faculty have already been mad at hartzell because he went back on his word about protecting the Texas family from State interference That's what the Tower protest yesterday was originally supposed to be about, but they ceded the site to the second day of the peaceful pro-Palestine protests
  11. None of what you are talking about is descriptive of what happened on Wednesday at UT. Why do you insist upon talking about everything EXCEPT what happened at Texas?
  12. So you think it's appropriate to invite fascism and the trampling of free speech at The University of Texas because he was scared of something that happened in New York? Gee whiz, what a fucking LEADER! Wowie zowie!
  13. The fucker you voted for did quite a lot of heavy lifting to normalize cops using force as a first step.
  14. I hear you on jumping to conclusions, but this is not a time for nuance. The governor deployed shock troops onto campus to shut down speech he didn't like. Our university president consented to that abuse of our campus and student body. He put his political future and personal goals ahead of the good of The University of Texas. I just think that the fascists make the most progress in their goals when reasonable people treat fascists like they're also reasonable. Abbott and anyone who would answer to his orders to march into a peaceful protest and assault them to silence their speech are goddamn fucking fascists.
  15. Sorry that 4chan sucks? That's a bit of a jump to soft claim that meme culture is why hartzell had to call in riot cops for a few hundred peaceful protesters in a designated public speech area
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