Kids I care about have gone to these things. Grown adults are showing up to harass - “roll coal” in the kids faces, throw things from cars.

Mustang public schools suspended all children who walked out, with support of the governor of Oklahoma.

People almost seemed to get a hard on at the idea of hurting these children in Facebook comments.

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    There is very little that a student could do to justify pepper spraying them, and I’m damn near 100% positive this is a case of the student doing none of that.

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      The entire press release comes from the angle of students having accountability for peaceful protests but speaks not at all to the accountability of police to follow the constitution and other basic laws they have been shown repeatedly in countless jurisdictions to have less than admirable compliance with.

      A neutral press release would have also included that the police are accountable for ensuring the rights of all citizens including minors and taking extreme prejudice against escalating to violence. That last part is key, as they have been shown repeatedly to not do so.

      This school board is supporting an atmosphere where unnecessary escalations of violence is presented as the norm and where the two parties have unequal duty to the laws that govern interaction.

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    ACAB. Cops are on the side of the ruling class. Expect to see increasing violence from them as we push back more and more against the Epstein-supporting ruling class.

    For any cops out there, you should resign and get a job which actually helps society.

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      They also groom kids on discord to do school shootings and then hang back on the stoop on the school to let them do it.

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        Hey now!! You’re only saying that because we’ve seen them do it. If there’s one thing this administration demands of its citizens, it’s that you absolutely must NOT believe your own eyes.

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          Yeah I thought that police maybe needed reform, I didn’t realize that they were literally just doing all of the crime.

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      Dear Parents,

      In order to keep your children from getting injured, we injured them with chemical weapons. One of them was injured so badly that they had to seek medical treatment for the injuries we caused.

      You are welcome.

      Sincerely,

      A bunch of violent psychopaths who are looking for any reason to hurt people.

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        I know you’re joking, but I just wanted to point out one of my pet peeves and why your statement would never be released. In all these cases of police harming civilians, the writer (whether it be journalists or the school in this case) always switch to a passive voice.

        They never say “we injured them” or even “police deployed chemical weapons.” It’s always the passive voice “pepper spray was deployed.” As if the pepper spray just up and decided to deploy itself, that crazy silly stuff!

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    Isn’t Tulsa the place where white people massacred the cities Black population because they were doing better than the white people economically?

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    The state superintendent is supporting an initiative to have Turning Point USA chapters in every high school. So these actions are not a surprise if that is what state officials want.

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      Guess that explains why this message by the schools isn’t in support of the students.

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    Apparently chemical weapons are now in the hierarchy of punishments that can be used against students for noncompliance in red states. Briefly, of course. For their safety.

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    I wonder what part of their Student and Family Guide to Success includes “peaceful protest will get crowd control ordinance used on you”. I’m sure it was for “officer safety” or some ACAB bullshit like that.

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      Cops are all impatient little bitches. If you don’t comply, they escalate just because they can’t fucking wait for someone to calm down.

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      “pepper spray was deployed”, you know that just sort of happens sometimes. Gotta keep an eye on that stuff or it will just go deploying itself all over students 'faces.

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    The kids are learning early why it is the greatest country in the world.

    Sugarcoated Oppression

    They’ll frame these kids as woke communist agitators, and the rest of the country will eat it up and hate the kids.

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    Its oklahoma. Where they tried to put trump bibles in all the schools. Not sure what people were expecting.

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    This isn’t surprising. Back in the 70s, people cheered as college students were murdered at Kent State and construction workers attacked protesting students.

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    Being Oklahoman I’m not surprised the fascist governor and the pigs of Tulsa for doing this. Only bright side is these kids will now be radicalized and we need the youth on our side.

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        Exactly I don’t know many young people who aren’t at least progressive. Hell my youngest son who isn’t political at all calls himself a socialist. Gen Z and maybe Gen Alpha Could save us, but only if we fight. Because the fascist Maga are doing everything they can to kill the planet.

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          My 26 year old sees nothing wrong with Socialist, and even Communist idealogies.

          When you’ve grown up with MAGA being the representation of Democracy, alternating with the mind-boggling fecklessness of the Biden administration, and that’s ALL you know about Democracy, when NOTHING is working, no wonder other political systems start to appear reasonable.

          I’ve always thought that most of the best things about American life were Socialist anyway - Schools, libraries, parks, fire departments, etc. We should expand that part of our system to include more stuff, like Health Care.

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            Exactly my son literally was discussing communism and thought it was good. And he understood on paper its great ,it only fails will fascist dictator abuse it. I mean I didn’t teach him any of this. He knows I learn far left and supported Bernie Sanders in both times he ran for office. Made ms so proud.

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          While the kids I meet doing Ubering are the most polite riders I have, I had the unfortunate experience of working in a rural gas station some years ago. Some were open Nazis do the salute and were not ostracized by their peers.