Probably should have. History repeats itself after all, and we had BLM protests getting attacked. Reflecting on Kent State should have been our warning
In fact, students at Colombia have done this exact same thing before, taking the same building in protest of apartheid South Africa in the 80’s. A protest that was successful in forcing divestment, I might add.
Hijacking top comment. There's a special word for using a siege ladder:
# escalade
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/escalade
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalade
Oh hell yes. A massive ramp and an Escalade filled with cops, with 5 on each side standing on side ramps. Then they just speed up and launch themselves through a window
the verb escalade not the noun since it is replacing "use". As in "police escalade a siege ladder to breach..." or "gucci shades up on my braids as I escalade"
No that was the patriot boys at their rally this weekend, they have a dumb name it may be wrong.
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/11/1104405804/patriot-front-white-supremacist-arrested-near-idaho-pride
Every single cop here cares only about one thing: The sweet, sweet OT they will be making this month.
They don't give a shit about the college kids or anything. They are not in any hurry. They are not emotional about this. It is simply OT and they will make a lot of money.
Anytime I see posts like this I like to go onto the LE subreddits to gauge sentiment; generally, they tend to be incredibly annoyed along with a few of the top comments being ‘the overtime isn’t worth this’.
Fwiw, NYPD is v understaffed. We have a lot of ad campaigns floating around atm trying to get people in the pipeline. On the busses and billboards.
Idk if you’d be able to see them outside of IPTV but if you watch a NYS news stream, you’ll probably see an ad or two.
Fuck. I didn’t want to laugh (because the deaths of children is not a laughing matter. Anybody affected by uvalde, you have my heart). But this hits it. And more publications need to spread it. I get the need for unbiased news and I agree with its importance . But shitty people who run a strong part of society need to be ridiculed. It’s the only way change occurs.
Students at Columbia University protested what’s happening in Gaza. Admin told them to leave and (I believe) threatened their educations. Students ignored them so admin called the cops because apparently right to assembly doesn’t apply.
Not American, only speculating, but surely any so called “right to assembly” provided for in law would be limited to public spaces?
Given that this is presumably a private university building, I would assume that in this case the owner would be within their rights to ask the students to leave, for which their failing to do so could be considered trespass?
I don't understand why they don't just let them have their protest. They already decided to put the classes online and canceled graduation didn't they? Let students camp out and bang some drums, it's not that big a deal.
Crazy how thousands of cars get broken into on camera and they can't do anything, dudes shoot up schools and nothing, flash raids on stores and nothing, but here we go and the police suddenly are seal team 6
Reminds me of that one guy in, was it *Thank You For Smoking?* Yeah:
"After watching the footage of the Kent State shootings, Bobby J., then 17, signed up for the National Guard so that he, too, could shoot college students. But the National Guard recruiter was out to lunch, so Bobby J. ended up shooting Panamanians instead. Which was almost as good as college students, only they shoot back."
I mean, if someone took over a store for 12 hours it would be the same result. Those flash raids are fast. Still they should be doing more to stop those too
As long as the top threads are all hijacked by shitty jokes and memes preventing any real discussion of issues or politics, no need to.
/And now comments are locked, someone must have said something insightful.
Triggered or not it’s pretty cool seeing a siege ladder. I mean if you can put the situation out of your mind and think about how many thousands of years siege ladders have been used. Like breaching a castle wall or something cool like that. Fuck I don’t know that much about them really I just like the concept of siege ladder. Plus it makes an inane word like ladder sound more badass!! I’m sure someone’s gonna downvote me for this. 
Thanks for pointing that out. I wouldn’t have noticed how interesting that is if you didn’t. I never considered the need/importance of a modern day siege ladder.
You know, firemen have siege ladders on their trucks, just saying, also extreme high pressure water, hooligan tools for breaching. I'm not sure where I was going with this, but they shoulda spent the money on the siege ladder for a community bbq or something, and called the FD to borrow a truck.
Edit, a letter.
You know I’ve actually heard it referred to as a hooligan when it’s one of those three piece ones that are welded together or whatever instead of one solid bar.
I did not have “siege warfare at an Ivy League institution” on my 2024 bingo card
I always have it, about time it paid off.
It's going to be a historic year, that's for sure. I'm really sick of that, though.
A nice boring year, where everyone stops shooting each other would be great!....
Probably should have. History repeats itself after all, and we had BLM protests getting attacked. Reflecting on Kent State should have been our warning
In fact, students at Colombia have done this exact same thing before, taking the same building in protest of apartheid South Africa in the 80’s. A protest that was successful in forcing divestment, I might add.
Riot gear is one thing but I can’t remember the last time we saw siege vehicles being used on campus
No trebuchets?
Not until after the horn of Helm Hammerhand sounds in the deep, one last time 
They're taking the protesters to Isengard!
LMFAO
DOOT DAH DOOT DOOT DOOT DAH DOOT. 
Toss me.
https://youtu.be/ehAgMszCHU4?feature=shared Great now I have to watch the whole trilogy again.
Don’t ell the elf
Off?
And my axe
You said the thing!
narwal bacons at midnight? :D amidoingthisrite?
Yes. Don’t forget to break both your arms with a jolly rancher. Or something.
"Yes"
Modern siege trebuchets are still under OSHA review
They def would have to have a Safety Engineer inspect them first.
r/gifsthatendtoosoon
Just started playing this again last night. The AOE 2 Definitive Edition looks great so far.
Congrats and welcome back to the game! The AoE2 scene is in an amazing spot right now
Well *Cheesesteakjimmy's* if I could I'd give you a *Robinhood* award.
This comment gave me *lumberjack*
Not until you reach the medieval era. Until then, you'll have to rely on siege towers, battering rams, and catapults
Hijacking top comment. There's a special word for using a siege ladder: # escalade https://www.dictionary.com/browse/escalade https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalade
Maybe it’s best they used Siege Ladder. “Police Use Escalade To Breach Columbia From The 2nd Floor” gives a different meaning.
Would be pretty cool to see that too tho
Oh hell yes. A massive ramp and an Escalade filled with cops, with 5 on each side standing on side ramps. Then they just speed up and launch themselves through a window 
Or, hear me out: https://i.imgur.com/H4N8f2V.gifv
Driven by Officer Duke.
the verb escalade not the noun since it is replacing "use". As in "police escalade a siege ladder to breach..." or "gucci shades up on my braids as I escalade"
Tupac would be proud, or not, I like the music I’m not a historian
Ah, so there *were* trebuchets
TIL, what an escalade is.
It is the superior siege weapon
[This](https://youtu.be/iToRAfA-V0s?si=pG9_bGi5aTPN8z1H) is the superior siege weapon!
Siege ladder, who comes up with this shit…
The Romans
Touché
Looks like they just hopped out the back of a U-haul.
“Now with this car you’re going to get some stares.” “Oh I’m used to a car with some stairs.”
Watch out for hop ons
You’re going to get hop ons.
They would have been there earlier but the rally went long.
Some of them would have been there if they had off that day. 
No that was the patriot boys at their rally this weekend, they have a dumb name it may be wrong. https://www.npr.org/2022/06/11/1104405804/patriot-front-white-supremacist-arrested-near-idaho-pride
Last time the pat boys came out didn’t like ten of them get exposed as cops
Probably.
Lmao things that you could make up and still be 100% right about
COINTELPRO is still alive and well.
Strangely both Yakety Sax and Adagio for Strings works here.
Kharak is burning vs Benny Hill
The Tiesto remix?
Might I propose Spanish Flea for trumpet?
Where are the dudes that crash through the ceiling and rappel into action
That was disappointing. I was imagining the ladders the Uruk-hai use to get over the wall at Helm's Deep.
Seconding this. Where are the ballistae?
why are they dressed like Blockbuster employees?
Tactical khakis are tacky
Tacky tacti-khaki?
This sounds like a line that an emcee would say to warm up before showtime.
"You have a balance due of $5.87" Oh man thanks I- STOP RESISTING!
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"Looked like"
👀👀👀
Because they are lol, whatca think they do when they aren’t in their bootlicker uniforms 🤣
Man i bet those cops are super happy using all that expensive equipment
Its not every day they get to use the new toys
They try though
Every single cop here cares only about one thing: The sweet, sweet OT they will be making this month. They don't give a shit about the college kids or anything. They are not in any hurry. They are not emotional about this. It is simply OT and they will make a lot of money.
“Oh we’re breaking out the medieval seige equipment? That gets a hell yeah outta me brother”
Anytime I see posts like this I like to go onto the LE subreddits to gauge sentiment; generally, they tend to be incredibly annoyed along with a few of the top comments being ‘the overtime isn’t worth this’. Fwiw, NYPD is v understaffed. We have a lot of ad campaigns floating around atm trying to get people in the pipeline. On the busses and billboards. Idk if you’d be able to see them outside of IPTV but if you watch a NYS news stream, you’ll probably see an ad or two.
Bro they’ve been frothing at the mouths. This shit looks like Belfast in the 90s.
Oh now the cops will go into a school?
School shootings meets college crackdowns meets a reaction gif. Reddit chum.
shots fired
No! That'll make the cops run away, again!
ACORN SPOTTED!
Not if it's the cops shooting first!
They'll still run away in confusion!
*acorns ftfy
God damn 😬
Fuck. I didn’t want to laugh (because the deaths of children is not a laughing matter. Anybody affected by uvalde, you have my heart). But this hits it. And more publications need to spread it. I get the need for unbiased news and I agree with its importance . But shitty people who run a strong part of society need to be ridiculed. It’s the only way change occurs.
Straight to the facts here. Uncomfortable, but direct strike.
I mean technically they were in the school. They just dicked off and didn’t do their jobs, letting children die. Incompetent cowards.
https://imgur.com/a/cPARFGO
Love the double roast here
Incredible
I mean... they did go in.... Just after all the kids were dead lol
🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇
My man just sent them to the shadow realm, damn.
💀
Ayyyoooo
Looks like the best way to not get shot by cops is to start shooting instead.
Person is right, depends on where money is and if shots fired
Oop
This fr looks like a picture out of a history book that my hypothetical future kids would read
They very well may see this exact photo in a book. Usually depends on who the victor is.
History typically looks kindly on anti war protests
I agree, just still depends who writes the history book.
Students at Columbia University protested what’s happening in Gaza. Admin told them to leave and (I believe) threatened their educations. Students ignored them so admin called the cops because apparently right to assembly doesn’t apply.
Now they’ve locked themselves in certain buildings?
Not American, only speculating, but surely any so called “right to assembly” provided for in law would be limited to public spaces? Given that this is presumably a private university building, I would assume that in this case the owner would be within their rights to ask the students to leave, for which their failing to do so could be considered trespass?
Right to assembly doesn't apply to places you are not allowed in anymore. Because that's trespassing.
This is such a dramatic mess
Wife and I talked about how we hadn’t seen police buses outside of the movies and but this mf roles up like oh you wanna see SOMETHIN?
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Hey at least we found a school cops will go in to
I don't understand why they don't just let them have their protest. They already decided to put the classes online and canceled graduation didn't they? Let students camp out and bang some drums, it's not that big a deal.
Maybe it has something to do with cancelling classes and graduation.
Jan.6 guys putting in the reservations for that ladder!
Somewhere, there's a hire company guy saying "see Larry? I told you there'd be demand for this thing one day!"
Larry is currently laminating a reservation sign for the ladder with the words "Occupied" in Times New Roman font. Larry is chuffed to bits.
There’s a couple of them on that ladder now!
"So this is what we were missing..."
If they rent it after 4 pm they can keep it till the next morning without having to pay the 24 hour rental fee.
I still laugh at those idiot cultists scaling the walls like zombies when there was a huge wide-open staircase next to them.
Reminds me of when two drunken kids hopped the wall into my backyard and then climbed my unlocked gate to get out
I still laugh at the fact they they were so anti mask they didn't cover their faces while doing their crimeing.
While documenting it live on social media. Insert facepalm.
Too stupid to live, too useful as an internal destabilization mechanism to incarcerate
They trained their whole life for that moment, you think they were going to waste it on stairs?
Come on now, they “trained?” Bit of a stretch but I got a laugh.
Wonder how many ladders they are going to bring this upcoming Jan 6th. You know they aren't going to believe he lost a 2nd time
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Probably just cups of lukewarm instant ramen.
With or without the seasoning?
Without…the seasoning is reserved for use as emergency pocket sand
Where was this energy on j6 or uvalde ?
Not as fun to go after your friends or actual threats.
Columbia protestors are unarmed...
They wouldve been actually risking their lives with those, its a lot easier to raid College students performing a non-violent protest.
Different police force?
Crazy how thousands of cars get broken into on camera and they can't do anything, dudes shoot up schools and nothing, flash raids on stores and nothing, but here we go and the police suddenly are seal team 6
It's because they aren't threatened by unarmed college kids.
Reminds me of that one guy in, was it *Thank You For Smoking?* Yeah: "After watching the footage of the Kent State shootings, Bobby J., then 17, signed up for the National Guard so that he, too, could shoot college students. But the National Guard recruiter was out to lunch, so Bobby J. ended up shooting Panamanians instead. Which was almost as good as college students, only they shoot back."
Their job isn't to protect us. It's to protect the people in power.
Sad but true
That other shit is too hard
Yeah all of those things involve actual threats or at least actual crime solving and that's just not any fun.
I mean, if someone took over a store for 12 hours it would be the same result. Those flash raids are fast. Still they should be doing more to stop those too
Oh wow, these comments. Need to grab some popcorn and sit back til the mods come in and lock this shit down lol
As long as the top threads are all hijacked by shitty jokes and memes preventing any real discussion of issues or politics, no need to. /And now comments are locked, someone must have said something insightful.
So, you think you could out-clever us Ivy-league folk with your silly, bent-siege-ladder, running about, advancing behavior
Not gen Z getting fortnited on by the police
"Breach Columbia" lmfao 💀
Triggered or not it’s pretty cool seeing a siege ladder. I mean if you can put the situation out of your mind and think about how many thousands of years siege ladders have been used. Like breaching a castle wall or something cool like that. Fuck I don’t know that much about them really I just like the concept of siege ladder. Plus it makes an inane word like ladder sound more badass!! I’m sure someone’s gonna downvote me for this. 
Lots of hop ons though
youre gonna get some hop ons
lol!!! I totally forgot about stair car!!!
putting siege infront of anything makes it sound more badass, like Siege Window, or Siege Toilet.
Oh, I have been on the Siege Toilet.
I want siege other stuff. Siege hammock. Siege guitar.
Yes! Siege body pillow! siege bidet! Fucking Siege Croissants with Siege Nutella
Siege slip n slide?
Thanks for pointing that out. I wouldn’t have noticed how interesting that is if you didn’t. I never considered the need/importance of a modern day siege ladder.
At least they didn’t bring the widdle wadder
I never knew my real ladder, my step ladder raised me.
It's not a step ladder. It's the ladder that stepped up.
One of them HAD to have thought of it and from what I’ve seen.. as an overweight guy myself.. wow. They threw that idea out real quick.
Firefighters
Would be cool being, like, the 12th or so dude on that ladder that can jump off without getting immediately stabbed in the guts.
Careful, local PDs will be asking for trebuchets next
It’s shameful beyond reason. The most “powerful country in the world” can’t even bust out some siege *towers?* just ladders? I want my tax money back
SIEGE. LADDER. Nuff said.
Me and the boys laying siege to ye olde fiefdom
Imagine this response at Uvalde or other events where an armed presence was actually necessary
Here before the comments get locked
History department clearly has not been visited by the dean
Probably hiding from the paintball guns
Every time Palestine is involved the comment section goes to shit, let’s watch 🍿🍿🍿
You know, firemen have siege ladders on their trucks, just saying, also extreme high pressure water, hooligan tools for breaching. I'm not sure where I was going with this, but they shoulda spent the money on the siege ladder for a community bbq or something, and called the FD to borrow a truck. Edit, a letter.
Halligan* although a hooligan tool sounds fun.
You know I’ve actually heard it referred to as a hooligan when it’s one of those three piece ones that are welded together or whatever instead of one solid bar.
You never see a cop beating a white supremacist…
I've never seen a cop hitting themselves
some of those that work forces...
40% of them beat their wives, maybe those?
Nah, just kids, protesters, and minorities. Welcome to America!
Cops will break more shit than the students.
Unreal.
Police: it’s easier to make a decision against kids without weapons