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    So ACAB, and we are a country with stupidly low quality of freedom despite the morons who just think guns=freedom, and fuck this was a BS move.

    However, the Constitution states only that the government will not pass laws that interfere with freedom of assembly. Courts have decided that this includes protests, picketing, labor strikes, etc.

    Courts have also concluded that this doesn’t mean you can assemble wherever you want, namely on private property. These students were essentially just trespassed by the university. Can’t really blame the policeor government for this one, unless you want to lean more extreme that they should be saying “fuck off, we disagree”. But I’d rather have a system where the police follow the law because I don’t trust any of them to make any good decisions on their own morals.

    The chief even came out with a statement that was a dig at the university president that he only observed peaceful protest, not the bullshit she was claiming.

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      UT-Austin is public. University of Minnesota is public. Ohio State is public. All of these schools receive billions in government funding.

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        But the article is about Columbia University. A private institution. It is not a public university

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          God this server is stupid as fuck

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      Public property is fair game.

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        Columbia University is not public space