Students arrested during the police crackdown on protests at universities in New York City last week were denied water and food for 16 hours, according to two faculty members at Columbia University’s Barnard College who collected reports from students who were inside.
Other students reported that they were beaten by New York City Police Department officers after their arrests and taken to the hospital for injuries before being returned to central booking. Photos of the injuries were provided to The Intercept.
Other students reported that they were held in mouse-infested cells, along with the general population of the jail. The students told the professors that they weren’t given water or food for 16 hours and that at least one student was left without shoes for the same period of time.
NYPD officers are bullies with badges.
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I find bully to be an apt description. They habitually belittle, intimidate, or attack people perceived to be weaker than them.
Bastard means unpleasant or despicable. I think that’s somewhat lacking by comparison.
For its schoolyard prevalence alone, I don’t believe “bully” quite illustrates the point, and bastard is far too common, agreed. Whatever happened to santorum, or smeg, etc.? These days, we seem to rely on spitting out derogatory pre-chewed gum, and there’s so much more to English alone — not to mention how many other languages have had cause for coining a phrase or term for whatever moment in particular?
Get creative. Read a book. See the world. Learn to fuck in different tongues. Swear like it was your birthright. (Plot twist: it is.)
Those are certainly more colorful. I use bully for its descriptive accuracy, but your point still stands. The average person knows fewer than one eighth of the words in English language, and use a tenth of that daily. There’s plenty of room for improvement in our insults and condemnations.
Fuck yeah
And New York is not the only place where that’s the case…
Shouldn’t have [checks notes] exercised their rights.
A couple of years ago I interviewed a guy living in SF who wanted to come over to Norway, to work as a software developer. I asked him why he wanted to make the move and he went on about how he had to get outta there, how he had lost all faith in the country and did not see a good future for himself if he stayed.
At the time I thought to myself that he was being a bit dramatic, but the more I read about how the US is treating its people these days the more I think understand what he was on about.
He made the move, btw.
Those that can leave are the lucky ones… Some of us are too “worthless” for other countries to accept so we’re stuck here…
Whether it’s income requirements or specialized industry/educational requirements, “uneducated” poor scumbags like myself are stuck in this bat shit crazy country… I wish I could leave.
I think I might’ve had a hard time not judging him for sharing that in an interview. Good on you for not.
He said he’s in Norway. They’re not known for being shy about knowing they’re better off.
This is why I moved. People look at me like I have 4 heads when I describe some things.
I hope these reports are taken very seriously.
But they won’t though.
How very…Israeli.
Nazisrael.
Ashka-Nazisraeli
Y’all really need to better draw the line between Israel and Jews, because comments like this erode the very important “criticizing Israel isn’t antisemitic” distinction. There’s absolutely no reason to point the finger at Ashkenazi Jews, an ethnic group, in our outrage over genocide committed by the Israeli state.
I get that you’re just doing wordplay, and calling Israel Nazis is fine (even if “Nazisrael” is a bit forced), but calling Ashkenazi Jews “Nazis” is just fucking hateful, and you’re giving ammo to the pro-Israel detractors when you say ignorant shit like this.
Taking a page out of the IDF playbook. (Unsurprisingly).
I mean none of them were r*ped or summarily executed so they must still be on the first page. Lol
Fascist pigs.
Just like the iSSraeli war criminals they’re defending
Yes show an entire generation what unchecked police forces do at an early age so its nice and memorable so they come after you and dismantle you when they come to power.
Like spraying people with fire hoses in the 1960s?
It’s on us to make sure these protestors get elected. Them coming to power is no more guaranteed than it was with hippies.
That is pretty messed up.
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The laaaaannnnnd of the freeeeee…
The NYPD is committing some crimes… Just like the iSSraeli fascists they’re defending.
Of course they did, fucking ACAB assholes.
Wow it’s such a low bar and yet somehow the police always manage to sneak under it
Students losing their Constitutional Rights? Quick! Shoot up an Elementary School so I can PRETEND to care about the Constitution Again!
