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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.
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NYPD officers are bullies with badges.
And New York is not the only place where that’s the case…
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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
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.
I think I might’ve had a hard time not judging him for sharing that in an interview. Good on you for not.
This is why I moved. People look at me like I have 4 heads when I describe some things.
Shouldn’t have [checks notes] exercised their rights.
How very…Israeli.
Taking a page out of the IDF playbook. (Unsurprisingly).
Fascist pigs.
Just like the iSSraeli war criminals they’re defending
That is pretty messed up.
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.
The NYPD is committing some crimes… Just like the iSSraeli fascists they’re defending.
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!
Of course they did, fucking ACAB assholes.
College kids discover what it’s like to be a poor Black man😂
This isn’t because they’re protesters. This is just how cops treat all prisoners. Fucking pigs.
ITT nobody who’s ever been to central booking without food and water for a week bc they give you rotten warm bologna and cheese and milk with a single toilet in the middle of a room with 800 guys. Ivy kids can afford to pay to fix their problems. Boohoo
The denied water part seems strange. Most American jails have water fountain toilet combos like this:
That is not a general population holding cell. That is the nicest jail cell I have seen.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that image is a jail for “white collar” crimes or not even in the US
The cell itself is pretty nice and non gen pop but I was more so just using it because it was one of the first pictures that popped up showing one.
I’ve been in cells without toilets or water. They’re designed for temporary holding (an hour or so), for things like waiting on transportation or intake, for example.
Wtf do you mean by most?
Yea and even the holding cells have those. Usually behind a half wall where it’s not really private but its sorta blocking your business.
Those sink/toilet combos are what had Dems claiming migrants were “drinking out of toilets”.
Jesus Christ dude
What?
I see this thread got brigaded by down voters.
You went out of your way to make it political. The thread was not “brigaded”, people just don’t like that shit
If it makes you feel any better I am very much a Democrat. So it was a little bit of criticizing “my own team” so to speak.
But I can see how it reads in hindsight. Haha I sound like my grandpa at Thanksgiving.
