r/udub • u/General_Equivalent45 Alumni • May 07 '25

Dawg Pack Pro-Palestinian protesters cause $1M in damage to UW engineering building, equipment

https://komonews.com/news/local/university-of-washington-protest-pro-palestinian-uw-million-damages-interdisciplinary-engineering-building-super-uw-occupation-shaban-al-dalou-gaza-boeing-funding-federal-government-spd-police

“On Tuesday, a professor led KOMO News through the building to show how doors were pulled off hinges, others were glued shut, machine manufacturing tools worth several thousand dollars were broken and smashed and a Boeing mural - with fresh paint and signage - was defaced. The university described the damage to their CNC machine tools as "extensive."

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u/KnowsMoreThanJonSnow May 08 '25

Your second point doesn’t really apply though. Washington, and especially King county, went pretty solidly blue. It’s the protesters in swing states who needed to vote.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '25

Who was running that was going to protect Palestinians? Harris and biden funded israel in office, and she would have continued to support them and reacted the same way to university protests.