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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

College separates the men from the boys. The boys go to college.


41 posted on 05/19/2016 11:36:31 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: billyboy15
Do make believe “die in’s” ever become REAL die in’s?

One can only hope. \

Us older guys remember the score. National Guard 4, Kent State 0.

42 posted on 05/19/2016 11:38:22 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: MarvinStinson

Kick the students out. Fire their teachers and the administrators who promote this.


43 posted on 05/19/2016 11:41:02 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: MarvinStinson

I can’t believe how stupid college-age adults are in this country...


44 posted on 05/19/2016 11:42:09 AM PDT by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: JimRed

that’s cold man, really cold. :-)


45 posted on 05/19/2016 12:00:13 PM PDT by billyboy15
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To: MarvinStinson
 
 
“Whose streets? Our streets!” they chanted, along with “Black Lives Matter!” and “Disarm PSU! Disarm PSU!”
 
So say the little white trust fund slackers.
 
 

46 posted on 05/19/2016 1:13:09 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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