Posted on 09/19/2017 7:30:22 AM PDT by TigerClaws
A Georgia Tech student has launched an online fundraising effort to aid campus police officers affected by Monday night’s riots. What began as a peaceful vigil in memory of fellow student Scout Schultz devolved into mayhem and a police cruiser was set ablaze.
“Two GTPD officers were injured in the ensuing melees and two GTPD cruisers were torched,” wrote Phillip Yamin, an electrical engineering major in the class of 2019, who started the online effort. It’s so far raised about $2,000.
A group of Tech students plans to clean up the campus this morning.
“The majority of Georgia Tech students do not support these violent protests,” student Nuala Hutton said in an email to the AJC. “Scout’s friends and the vigil attendees were advocating for changes to mental health policy on campus when the protesters showed up and started calling for violence. The vigil was entirely separate from the protests, and it was intended to memorialize and honor Scout. This is not our community. We are still grieving.”
(Excerpt) Read more at buzz.blog.ajc.com ...
Pretty obvious the rioters are being bused in and are being paid.
Yes. Students at Georgia Tech are supposed to be highly intelligent, hard working, high achievers. Not rabble running through the streets and destroying property. If they have concerns about the actions of campus police, they will find a more constructive and intelligent way to express them.
Agreed. The counter revolution in action. Very encouraging signs from the younger generation.
I have to believe that is the sentiment held by most of the GT campus and community. Outside agitators most likely started the riot.
The parents lawyer up and ask why? I look at this an ask why didn't he drop the knife when he was asked, 12x? Tragic and unnecessary, sure, but he held all the cards in that situation and wanted the outcome he achieved. The protesters do not think of the impact this had on the officers involved - he put them in that situation. Suicide by cop puts a huge emotional burden on the officer(s) involved.
I can readily believe these students are more about healing than riots. My nephew graduated from Georgia Tech in June. He’s with the rest of the students who are grieving that one of their fellows was depressed enough to do suicide by cop. He was on FaceBook last night reminding anybody who is succumbing to the stress to remember that they are worth more than they know, and there is help.
The idea of a violent demonstration at Tech is bizarre
Good for them. Georgia Tech didn’t strike as the type of place where this kind of crap would happen.
Unfortunately, the gaystapo wing of ANTIFA just had to come in and trash their campus, and injure police officers.
https://www.gofundme.com/gtpd-officer-recovery
Please go and make a donation, even if it's only a buck or two. What matters is showing how widespread the solidarity is for these officers -- and these constructive and good-hearted students who support them.,
I didn’t know that. Thanks for the info.
USC is also a rich school in a poor area. They’ve had spillover violence as well from the neighboring democrats.
That was my very first thought when I heard it was a Georgia Tech — that there was no way that this violence originated with Georgia Tech students.
Liberal elites who pay for violent thugs are the enemy...
Props to these students.
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Agreed. It’s too bad headlines like this don’t generate clicks. We would all be better off if these were the types of stories that made the news.
Georgia Tech is so highly-regarded, that I have faced job opportunity loss when all I could claim is a little SUNY New York State school on my resume. I lost out to the Georgia Tech people EVERY time.
Exactly. Hope Tucker Carlson or Hannity has the guy that stated the fund on this week. Why I stated the thread. Their staffs reads FR.
This sounds much more like the Georgia Tech I know and respect.
When I lived in California in the 1970’s and ‘80’s there was violence then from the crappy areas surrounding USC.
The MSM/Antifa/BLM anti-cop claim that the knife was closed (or it was clearly "only" a non-dangerous multitool) is a LIE!
From this video [LINK] of the shooting is below screen capture:
And to understand the danger a knife wielding person poses to cops with guns and how quickly many feet of separation can be closed by that knife wielding person, here's another video:
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