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Portland State Students Stage “Die-In” Because Cops Carry Guns
thefederalistpaper ^ | Robert Gehl

Posted on 05/19/2016 8:55:58 AM PDT by MarvinStinson

This week, students at Portland State University decided to take a break from whatever studies they have and make fools of themselves. They staged a “die-in” to protest the fact that police carry guns. That’s right. They want officers unarmed.

“So, I do believe I have mentioned the die-in before—what that entails is a lot of us who are abused so to say…we’re going to be laying down in the street outside so [the president] can see us so he knows what the Board of Trustees does to us, which is it kills us,” one protester explained.

The video starts with the students chanting “We want real diversity! Not a police-state university,” then it shows some 200 of them laying down, blocking traffic with signs and their “die in.”

“Whose streets? Our streets!” they chanted, along with “Black Lives Matter!” and “Disarm PSU! Disarm PSU!”

The group “Disarm PSU” is a student group that was founded two years ago after the school voted to arm campus police officers. The raucous group has staged several protests before, but the school said they will not give in to their demands by disarming campus police, CampusReform is reporting.

Among the amplified comments from the students was this gem: “The police are a tool of capitalism to control people in the state they are—staying in slavery, staying in poverty wages, staying in ridiculous working conditions.”

I’m pretty sure they haven’t seen the working conditions in most socialist countries.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: banglist; diein; guns; highereducation; leo; oregon; police; portlandstate; students; usefulidiots
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To: MarvinStinson

Spring has sprung, the grass has ris,
We all know where the hipsters is.


21 posted on 05/19/2016 9:27:40 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: MarvinStinson

I agree with them. It’s time to disarm the urban police departments and let the elected sheriff’s departments resume deputizing trustworthy citizens when needed.

And neighborhood vigilance committees will do a far better job of handling local criminals than do the politically-aligned police departments.

There’s no better way to discourage burglary and vandalism in your neighborhood than to decorate street lights with dead burglars and vandals.


22 posted on 05/19/2016 9:30:13 AM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: tumblindice

That’s another school I won’t be recruiting from.


23 posted on 05/19/2016 9:32:31 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (her name is no longer is Hillary. It's Hilarity. Try it on for size, it's fun to say)
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To: MarvinStinson

One can hope they will outgrow it, but I have my doubts.


24 posted on 05/19/2016 9:37:22 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Apparently, most people are fine with what Obama is doing, while he ignores our problems.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Stupid is as stupid does. On that day it was the “die-in”.


25 posted on 05/19/2016 9:40:49 AM PDT by Boomer (Immigration without assimilation is invasion.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz; Ancient Man

AM prolly nailed it: “The guys participate because they want to tap the easy liberal chicks.”
At least the guys are hetero? Likely downside: a visit to the Student Health clinic.


26 posted on 05/19/2016 9:40:53 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: MarvinStinson

I’m seeing Jonestown.

FREE KOO-LADE FOR EVERYONE!


27 posted on 05/19/2016 9:51:37 AM PDT by HangUpNow
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To: MarvinStinson

Well, they’re certainly brain-dead. Halfway there already!

“brain die in”, LOL

CC


28 posted on 05/19/2016 9:52:56 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: JBW1949; eyeamok

Exactly...The way to stop all this BS is to automatically expel them from school


Who is going to expel them? The leftist administration?

They should all do a Die-In together, for the good of the country.

And for the good of the country, do it for real.


29 posted on 05/19/2016 9:54:49 AM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Makes the students of the 60s with their sit ins look intelligent...


The students of the 60s rebuilt the educational system into the propaganda network of imbecility that it has become (science and math somewhat excluded [non-”climage-science” science]).


30 posted on 05/19/2016 9:57:43 AM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Anyone who doubts America’s decline only has to remember that 40 years ago, when I was at school, campus security at most major universities consisted of unarmed retired cops, who spent most of their time at the lost and found office, checking office door locks, and directing traffic at campus events.


31 posted on 05/19/2016 10:00:40 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: MarvinStinson

The cops put their lives on the line to protect the sorry a$$es of these useless idiots. What this is really about is showing their hatred for the country they live in.


32 posted on 05/19/2016 10:01:38 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: eyeamok

College doesn’t care if they go to class or not, as long as the tuition is paid!


33 posted on 05/19/2016 10:01:57 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: MarvinStinson

I hope the law enforcement officers know that they’ll be a lot easier to drag the bodies out if they field dress them first.


34 posted on 05/19/2016 10:07:10 AM PDT by Kenton
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To: eyeamok

Instant expulsion, a big fat 0 on each Final and a note attached to their transcript. Their parents should be called to come pick up their little snowflakes because they obviously don’t know not to play in the street so can’t be trusted to get home safely. Next semester, the school should include a stupidity deposit that is returnable when the kid graduates without pulling stupid stunts that interrupt the day to day proceedings of the university.

Noticing there isn’t one black person in that group.


35 posted on 05/19/2016 10:31:39 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Ancient Man

Don’t they realize they’re advertising they have no means of protection? Rapists are likely taking note who are easy targets.


36 posted on 05/19/2016 10:36:03 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: MeganC

Zimmerman decorated the curb with such and look what happened to him.


37 posted on 05/19/2016 10:37:16 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: VanShuyten

That was what my college days were like, too. I don’t recognize today’s campuses.


38 posted on 05/19/2016 10:46:20 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: MarvinStinson

Looks like an awfully melanin challenged group of “BLM” supporters


39 posted on 05/19/2016 11:20:08 AM PDT by zeugma (Today is Pungenday, the 65th day of Discord in the YOLD 3182)
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To: samtheman

Yeah, I know...But Ohio State did threaten those who were doing the sit-in at the prez’s office...That stopped that one...


40 posted on 05/19/2016 11:21:35 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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