Comment on The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.

MintyFresh@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was watching Hasan being at the protests to get a sense of what is actually going on and a European left a comment on his video that succinctly put the US police into perspective.

  As a European I don't get how the police is just shooting rubber bullets instantly, why do they not have riot shields and water throwers and such, it seems so uncivilised.

  And that pretty much sums up the cops in the US. They're just uncivilized. Their idea of "deescalation" is escalation until you're too incapacitated to fight back.

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• dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s called flirting. Or maybe he asked her out and she rejected him. It really could go both ways.

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  • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    She certainly didn’t dodge a bullet with him.

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    • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Jokes aside, I hope she and Australia sue them into oblivion.

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      • TrippaSnippa@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We won’t. Our government is still trying to pretend that everything is fine and normal in the US despite winning the recent election in a massive landslide based partially on anti-Trumpism sentiment. I’d love to see Albo prove me wrong but I’m not holding my breath.

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      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Then the poor LA taxpayers foot the bill while Rubber Rambo keeps his job and gets a free vacation.

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