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.

    • satori [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      11 months ago

      the difference in the accepted narrative between kent state and tiananmen is WILD

      “the poor untrained soldiers were afraid for their safety. an officer might have given an order to fire or an order might have gotten garbled. what a tragic misunderstanding soviet-bottom

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      “so what if the protesters set a pla vehicle on fire and dragged the soldiers out and hanged them, the army shouldn’t have been there in the first place!! honk-enraged