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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by emizeko@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

whoops no this is UC Davis in 2011. the cop pepper spraying these nonviolent student protestors filed for worker's compensation claiming "psychiatric damage" due to having his name released and won more than $38k USD in compensation.

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[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm sorry, you are right that there is oppression in the US, but to suggest that this incident is somehow equivalent to the Tiananmen Square Massacre, where people were run over with tanks, and their remains hosed down the street drains, is absolutely disgusting.

The term "false equivalence" doesn't even begin to describe this. The disrespect for what happened is so reprehensible that it completely invalidates any point you might be trying to make. People died in Tiananmen Square.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://streamable.com/unjnw9

video of tank man NOT getting run over, followed by a bunch of clips of American police cars running over protestors

[-] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Note, those tanks are leaving the square.

According to the western narrative, those tanks just spent hours gunning down unarmed protesters, then crushing their corpses into liquid.

And then stop to argue with a single dude trying to block them from leaving.

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