Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are.

Nixon invades Cambodia, campuses across the country erupt in protest, armed troops deployed to deal with the unrest on an Ohio campus, guns pointed at students to intimidate them into dispersing...hmmm, can't remember what happened next...everything calmed down, I think, right?

Edit: Autocorrect betrayed me.

We're so different from those godless immoral Chinese communists, something like Tianenman Square would never happen here.

Lol.

Lmao, even.

But don't worry guys! The first amendment guarantees a right to assemble. The police wouldn't ever do anything to infringe on our rights! If they were to do it, I'm sure there'd be a really sick folk song written about it or something

Remember that US intelligence services speculated in using snipers to kill "Occupy Wall Street" protesters on university campuses.

FBI coordinated with banks and universities to get information on students.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy

Should be treated like they are? Okay, so full outrage, comparisons to the Kent State massacre, and the administration facing reprisals and consequences for deploying snipers to intimidate, threaten, and potentially murder students.

We're treating them like they're snipers, Admin, you're welcome.

Wtf... Cops in riot gear arresting students before 10pm, and fucking SNIPERS intimidating in a peaceful one night protest on a college campus. And a university spokesperson saying "demonstrators exercised their first amendment right for several hours and then were instructed to disperse" like yeah, that's enough first amendment right for you guys, go be quiet now.

Nope. Just nope. You are not free. Burn it all to the ground before it's too late or we're actually fucked.

ACAB

So not justifying this response, but they have snipers out for EVERY football game. I think it is standard practice for large gatherings. You can make your own opinions on this, but this isn't a unique thing.

And that would be my last day on campus, followed by an appointment with my attorney to discuss getting back my fees & tuition.

Hard Pass Fuck That

As someone who's worked large events and closely with police or other big wig officials, I am consistently surprised at how people are surprised about how high profile event security works.

The amount of work that goes into keeping people safe regularly is monumental. You'd also be surprised at just how much hard targets don't get attacked when a limelight is cast on them compared to soft targets. It's violence prevention 101 and easily the most important.

If you see something, say something.

PDF warnings:

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/whats-next-soft-target-attacks

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/DHS-Soft-Target-Crowded-Place-Security-Plan-Overview-052018-508_0.pdf

https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/fema_faith-communities_security-soft-targets-crowded-places.pdf

Fucking cowards.

Le sigh..... Time for another crosspost to a boring distopia.

My God the bootlicking in this thread

Cute are they cosplaying Gaza

Wonder what Neil Young is gonna say

In case anyone wants to see the university's now removed claim these are not snipers here is the wayback link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240426123527/https://www.thelantern.com/2024/04/university-confirms-there-are-no-snipers-on-the-ohio-unions-roof/

If they’re actually snipers, they suck at their job.

They're law enforcement but not snipers

https://www.thelantern.com/2024/04/university-confirms-there-are-no-snipers-on-the-ohio-unions-roof/

Indiana University also has snipers: https://lemmy.ml/comment/10599404

Here we go again.

I’ve seen this before, they intend to begin beating students soon and fear reprisal.

dude has his bipod deployed on top of his tripod, in possibly the least comfortable and most obvious position of all time, hoo lee, get this guy a medal or something we're sending our best to protect against the dangerous student body

Shocked they didn’t bring the tank

In any case, the people saying this is pretty standard security for a large gathering of people are correct in it's regularity, but I'm not particularly convinced that they're correct in its efficacy as a practice. They're all visible enough that they can be seen by the student body, which is either bad planning or blatant intimidation, and obviously gives up their position immediately, which is bad since they're potentially a would-be ne'er-do-well's greatest threat. If anyone becomes embedded in the protesting crowd, they become much less effective, if anyone takes up a tactical position, they become much less effective. If anyone starts to try to instigate violence between the protestors and police, which would probably be what any bad actor would do since it has a pretty high chance of success, they're much reduced in their efficacy, or potentially even negative in their efficacy as it leads to an escalation of violence. If anyone has a bomb or does chemical attack, the sniper is probably too late.

Plus, from what I've seen of the other protests, the police already have a perimeter set up on the ground keeping track of who enters and exits, which makes sense. Snipers would probably be better served as a part of that perimeter rather than surveying the inside of the protest, since they can cover a pretty large distance, you could turn them around pretty quickly, if they did need to fire on where the protestors are actually gathered, they can screen who's entering and exiting, and it's overall better optics. They could probably keep their position better concealed since there's not a huge crowd of people looking at that side of the building (if they even made any attempt to be concealed, which should be really the bare minimum).

This doesn't make any sense to me, even just as a kind of surface-level tactical decision. Maybe I'm missing something here, but this just seems like it's maybe stupidity, or intimidation or something else I can't think of.

We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it But we tried to fight it

I knew this was a terrible country but Jesus fuck

Sadly, this is what we voted for.

Of course they're not snipers.

. . .

Raises eyebrow: But what if they were?

Look. If you had....one shot....

I guess these guys are always on the rooftops around campus.

Time to go full French on these fuckers. Molotovs are easy to prepare, as are pipe/nail bombs. Tires burn for a long time. There's a lot of barricading materials inside the school which can be used, no doubt.

Disinformation post ahead of election season - big shocker.

These aren’t snipers, they’re spotters. You can’t even make out what is in front of the dude in all black.

OPs only response to the closest thing we have to real fact being given was “I don’t buy it”

Seems legit. Toodles.

And now you’re deleting my posts lol. What a joke.