12/2/22

UNM schedules another fascist, protests and arrests ensue

After students of color holding tickets were denied entry to a September event sponsored by an extreme white wing group Rapid City Central graduate and Republican former intern for then-US Representative Kristi Noem, Tomi Lahren was driven from the University of New Mexico Student Union Building’s Ballroom B. 

Lahren is a white supremacist who was booked to speak on the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month at a predominantly Hispanic-serving institution in a state where the hate group New Mexico Civil Guard abandoned lawful protest and started shooting protesters. 

Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA makes money by going from one college campus to the next telling whomever will listen that liberals are bad and Earth haters are good. In April 2019 sleepy Vermillion became ground zero for Donald Trump's war on America in my home state of South Dakota by hosting Kirk.

UNM schedulers expected protests but booked Lahren and Kirk anyway even knowing the decision would be seen as normalizing hate speech. 
State Police in riot gear showed up at the Student Union Building at the University of New Mexico during a peaceful protest and detained three protesters of color on Wednesday, Nov. 30. UNM Police and hired security looked on. “I really thought that if we were just standing there, that maybe they’d stop. I didn’t have any weapons. None of us did,” community activist Lisa Christopherson said. “And none of us were hitting, punching them or anything. Really just standing there.” Christopherson fears her ribs were broken by the officers who detained her, she said, and has symptoms of a concussion. Christopherson said she was never given any direct instructions to clear the ramp before being detained. [Officers detain demonstrators during protest on UNM campus against conspiracy theorist Charlie Kirk]
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2 comments:

All Mammal said...

SOBs. Who the heck detains college girls for protesting? She was doing what students are supposed to be doing ffs. That is why I am all about copying the open cary practices of the loser armed militias roaming the streets and killing people and getting away with it. But when the ones who are actually protecting the innocent and have actually had their rights spit on open carry, the National Guard gets called in. And if the people happen to not be white or man, they just get leveled. Pathetic. As soon as poc start packing heat, legally and openly and for a cause, gun control laws will be written faster than Dusty and Johnny and Marion can say “poor whitey”.

larry kurtz said...

I would certainly pay to watch a Republican circular firing squad.