i had to stop watching the video it was too painful and sad to watch

but honestly i don't understand what is happening. the police are repeatedly choking the students, trying to lift them up by the soft spot under their throats, and inflicting pain behind their jawbones, but the students are just sitting there. honestly i don't even know what's happening, are the students partly unconscious from pain or are they just good at peaceful resistance? i don't understand how somebody can resist those tactics and just sit there

we are all in trouble. the police will only get even bolder in the future. even the idea of a "free speech zone" is disturbing, aside from the violent show of force against a peaceful group of people (who only became loud seeing people attacked, choked, and tortured--i don't know what other word to use for trying to dominate somebody with a maneuver designed to cause maximum pain and submission)

actually i think Andres Rojas's response is pretty tame: "the actions taken should not be allowed to go on without consequence and honest dialogue"

look at the place we're at: we're forced to endure violent punishment, completly unjustly, with quietude and composure while a bunch of heavily armored stormtroopers attack our friends. without provocation.

and americans outside of the actual sphere won't even know about it. and sometimes even when they do know about it they'll support the police

i'm actually dizzy thinking about what it was like to be choked and attacked, smothered by a mob of police. and seriously the police must not have been applying the appalling pain techniques properly, unless hte student were half or fully unconscious from the pain. it makes me think of monks immolating themselves. in a way the police damn themselves by acting this way but they walk with impunity. absolute impunity. just look at it.