Palestine Solidarity protesters show up at UCF’s COMMENCEMENT under a storm of bike cops

On the 4th of May, the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando held their commencement. As graduates filed out, a pro-Palestine protest was set up front and center in the grassy mall onto which they emerged. A very large number of bike cops and protest pens up front walled off the protest-and one of the cops was armed with a yellow shotgun type weapon. This is designated by its color as a crowd control weapon, which fires impact munitions rather than lead bullets or shot.

Before cops could aggressively shut things down on their timetable, protesters withdrew by surprise as a cohesive unit. Bike cops moved to circle the exiting protesters but made no move to stop those who went right through their line.

One cop was even armed with a long gun designated for crowd control munitions e.g rubber bullets
Front line between protesters and all those cops

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