• lud@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    It’s just that I have seen a lot of images of it being done in the USA.

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      7 months ago

      I have no idea what images you’ve seen, but not only do I know exactly where that IU sniper is standing, I can tell you for a fact that is not normal because I used to go up there when I was a student to smoke weed since they never locked the door.

      I don’t think I would have gone up there with friends to smoke weed if there was a cop with a sniper rifle stationed there. Not even when there were protests going on where that protester is pointing his gun.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah if that’s true you should probably be more mad not less. Having a sword of Damocles dangling precariously overhead for otherwise powerless students exercising what should be a fairly mundane democratic function of solidarity really shouldn’t be “business as usual” for any country.

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        7 months ago

        I don’t have the energy to be more mad. It doesn’t matter for me and in the end I don’t really care .

        It’s a you (USA) problem.

    • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Europe does this regularly too. It came to mainstream knowledge when a protestor parachuted into the Germany - France euro match in 2020. People watching the spectacle noticed a sniper in the very top area over looking the stadium. When this broke in the news they said that snipers are regularly at events that large. They are anti-terrorism measures, according to the EU.