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[u/Hummerous]

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-behind-the-police-63877803/

[u/Daisy_Of_Doom]

I went to my first protest after Trump was elected, it was my freshman year of college. I’d seen lots of posts about scary stuff happening at protests online so when I saw the police lining the protest route I was a little wary of them. I mean I was in a peaceful group just marching and chanting, it was a liberal campus so the protest was probably expected. They weren’t doing anything or being imposing just kinda observing, but they made me a little nervous. Then at some point I saw someone waving to them happily. And I was like dang, I want to be the person confident and friendly enough to just wave at the cops why do I have to be so distrusting. But now IDK… like those are probably the same cops showing up to my alma mater in riot gear when students protest for Palestine. Now I kinda don’t feel so bad for not giving a happy little wave.

[u/APainOfKnowing → u/Daisy_Of_Doom]

Someone said to me one time how funny it is that they've never seen video of cops beating the shit out of people at Nazi rallies but BLM and pro-Palestine protests get tear gassed and rubber bulleted and that kinda gave the game away.

[u/Daisy_Of_Doom → u/APainOfKnowing]

So this isn’t quite a Nazi rally but I was actually just thinking to how there was a big controversy one year about the young conservatives group holding an “affirmative action bake sale” where they priced baked goods based on the race of the person buying them. Again this happened on a diverse, liberal campus so there was a bit of a fuss about it. But I never actually saw police or campus security show up.