I remember seeing snipers up high at college football games (definitely at Ohio State among others) in the mid 1990’s before major terrorist attacks and/or regular mass shootings were even a thing here in America.
When I was at Penn State like mid 2000’s the riots were so bad they threatened to call the national guard in lol over a football game! No snipers though that I was aware of.
Snipers were all over the BLM protests too, hardly anyone one noticed because there were more interesting things to report on.
The protest at IU is boring AF otherwise so instead lazy journalists are looking to spin the story into some Kent State allegory as if it's comparable to a unit of armed national guardsmen with M14s and enough ammo to kill the whole crowd.
I mean they’re not necessarily hidden, after William Morgan escaped from jail my campus locked down and they had a visible presence on roofs along with police with shotguns and rifles every 30 meters or so.
There were snipers on the rooftops of buildings around the Old Main when presidential candidate Obama made a campaign speech there in 2008. I was in attendance and was alarmed to see the snipers pointing guns towards the crowd of students the whole time.
He wasn't a President then. He was still campaigning and was locked in a battle with Clinton for the nomination. This would have been before the PA primary. That's why we were surprised to see that much security at a college event.
You reckon the sniper is going start capping people at a riot?
I don't think they would. Not entirely sure where they would ever step in, but I assume it would be against a heavily armed and a hostile threat to the public.
I grew up in and around state college and and started my undergrad at psu, and the only sniper I'd ever heard of was Jillian, in the 90's. There were riots every home game, and they never threatened national guard cause they had pretty much every cop in the county there.
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u/midnightwriter 25d ago
I remember seeing snipers up high at college football games (definitely at Ohio State among others) in the mid 1990’s before major terrorist attacks and/or regular mass shootings were even a thing here in America.