Zero justification, not a stray bullet etc, he literally aims and shoots at the camera, what in the fuck is going on over their?
The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.
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blueamigafan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The US spent the last 24 years spreading freedom and democracy in the Middle East, it ended up running out of it at home
Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
You mean the democracy and freedom they were spreading finally reached home.
Rooskie91@discuss.online 4 months ago
A fascist take over of the government is what’s happening here. This is pretty on brand for that sort of event.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Wait until you find out the entire history of usa…
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It should also be noted that the term “rubber bullet” is exceedingly euphemistic.
So-called ‘rubber bullets’ are huge and have been known to maim and blind people. These aren’t tiny little paintball rounds, folks.
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Because most of them have a core of metal or other high density material and a softer exterior. It’s like wrapping a brick in a couple of layers of bubble wrap and hitting someone if the face with it.
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Well, you have to have something heavy to hold enough inertia to have a deterring impact.
How else are you supposed to suppress the growing second class citizenry? Communicate?
Lumisal@lemmy.world 4 months ago
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Yeah, in a different thread there were some drawings too.
Until today, I imagined rubber projectile being something that’s just something fast but soft, perhaps something that even disintegrates on impact.
Kind of like paintball.
kcuf2@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
Paintballs can blind you
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Yeah, but i can put on safety gear and accept getting shot with them as a part of a fun game. Unlike metal cored rounds.
lautre@jlai.lu 4 months ago
Yes, they are “less-lethal” but there are still hundreds of cases where people have been killed or permanently disabled because of these.
pixelkitty@lemmy.world 4 months ago
LAPD shot a protester in the head with rubber bullets and refused to call an ambulance for her as she lay there bleeding and concussed; another protester was trampled and concussed by mounted police; countless other protestors were beat over the head savagely with batons… and this is only what was on video.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
California should pass a ballot initiative making it legal for any random person to shoot police with less lethal munitions whenever they want.
fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 4 months ago
Its only illegal if you get caught
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s one thing to constantly talk about standing up to tyranny and defending your precious freedoms, owning guns especially for that long awaited moment when they can be revolutionary heroes.
Looks like Americans talk the talk but don’t walk the walk.Ilovemyirishtemper@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The Americans who spout off about things like standing up to tyranny and how much they love having guns are not the same people participating in this protest. The government is actively supporting those people.
The protesters are the ones expecting the rule of law to eventually win, but also know how important it is to protest so that the rule of law continues to exist. It may not be as violent as you’re expecting, but it seems to me that they are walking the walk.
We haven’t done this in a while and we’re a little rusty, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t fighting.
MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee 4 months ago
same protester that got trampled and concussed was the one shot in the head.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 months ago
NYpd and lapd are probably the most corrupt out there. LAPD has actual gang affiliations, some with white supremcesists.
Antwares@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
Rage against the machine lyrics are factually based.
Lots of police departments started as slaver patrols, Union busters, and right wing militia.
Portland’s police, for example, were originally a KKK militia.
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
If I recall correctly, the officer broke article 19 of the UDHR. I have a sneaking suspicion that that officer isn’t getting any reprecussions for their actions.
dermanus@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Much more likely he’ll get paid leave to deal with the “trauma” of the negative attention he’ll get.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Did you see the new studies? It turns out pead sooves trauma in cases like these
MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee 4 months ago
as long as his name isn’t pulicized, he’ll probably get off 100% clean. even if it is publicized, he’s probably fine.
Enkrod@feddit.org 4 months ago
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
I want to tell all the centrists who acted like leftists were radical, dangerous people for the last 30 years in the US while treating violent, rightwing conservative ideology as if it was innocent and defenseless to personally eat shit you naive assholes leftists were trying to warn you about this moment in the US for decades, fucking DECADES and y’all still chose to listen to fascists over learning some basic things about leftist ideology.
spits on the country at my feet
OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Unfortunately there are quite a few young people on their side. We’re going to have to address the amount of Gen Z support we saw for Trump in the last election.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 4 months ago
it’s much wider than generations, it’s definitely race and gender mixed into this problem for sure. And just looking at the White House it’s spread across all generations being represented here.
If you’re zeroing in on gen z: Lots of white boys who believe they and they alone are facing oppression and were brainwashed into thinking trans, brown people and women deserve no rights.
At least that’s how the influencer weight has been getting measured.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Meh, it is concerning but it is concerning in the sense that liberals and centrists won’t actually make an appeal to young people who are scared, all they will do is shame them for being lazy and sternly tell them their life is going to be MUCH harder than their parents so fall in line and get used to being screwed over and over and over again.
Conservatives appeal to young people with fascism, but that is not a new thing, it isn’t a new thing for young people to be enticed by it either, what is new is the cynicism of older people towards younger people being terrified of their future. It is disgusting, it honestly makes me want to vomit my body has no other response to my “elders” spitting in the face of scared angry children who only see toxic role models and empty talking heads as role models.
Blame someone else other then Gen Z, I am sorry but I didn’t spend my whole life listening to boomers say “but what about McGovern! Fall in line stop complaining trust me I am older than you and have earned my cynicism, you will never win young people never vote” to then have the narrative instantaneously switch to “Gen Z has abandoned us for conservatives are voting now why are the kids evil now!?!?!”.
I have been using the word “pathetic” a lot lately, but I will use it again here because nowhere else fits the usage of the word better, stop being pathetic and stand up for kids instead of concern trolling about what is going through their heads as they watch the world fall apart around them while all the kind adults are mostly in utter denial about it.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They are getting young women and girls with the TERF stuff. No one is paying attention to this.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Look, you don’t understand. Biden didn’t use all the leverage he could with Israel, and was old. Democrats tried to give everyone healthcare… So obviously, “Both sides are exactly the same!”
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Biden used zero leverage with Israel to the point that Israeli figures would openly brag about the US letting them do whatever they want.
They aren’t the same, at all, one is the bad cop and the other plays good cop.
Absaroka@lemmy.world 4 months ago
A good time to remind everybody that while rubber bullets are considered “non-lethal,” they can kill.
Back in 2004 a college student in Boston died from a bullet that missed its intended target, hit the ground and ricocheted into her eye.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Killing_of_Victoria_Snelgrove
So, while the shot certainly wasn’t warranted, IMO its worse because of what could have happened because this officer was taking a shot for fun.
AA5B@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Even if less-lethal ammunition were risk free, that should still be a crime. Even in the ideal risk-free case, how is this any different from assault, if the cop came up behind a reporter swinging his baton. There was clearly no justifiable reason, it was clearly assault for fun or intimidation, and any reasonable person would know that.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It is a crime. Cops are effectively above the law.
Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 months ago
“non-lethal” Oh, boy! What an infuriating misnomer that is.
This is also a good time to remember nothing here in this context is “non-lethal”. All of these things (sand bags, tear gas, tasers, pepper spray, mace, rubber bullets, batons, shields, tactical holds, etc.) are accurately called “less lethal” because all of them can and will kill under certain circumstances, even when used by trained officers with good intentions. (I know. How often does that happen, right?) It doesn’t take much to cross that line between “not intending murder” and “actual fucking murder”, often something as simple as a common medical condition or simply falling while moving over hard ground like curbs and sidewalks. If a reporter is using the term “non-lethal” in the context of police brutality, that’s a pretty good sign that you are being lied to.
CMonster@discuss.online 4 months ago
Almost all " non-lethal" munitions are really “less lethal” and capable of killing someone if they get hit in the wrong area. They also easily maim. I saw a pellet from what are called “donkey balls” which are essentially clay-more mines filled with little rubber pellets bounce off a wall fast enough to go through someone’s cheek and exit out the other side of his mouth. TLDR You can really fuck someone up with that stuff. Cops think they are liker nerf toys.
RealSpiderLane@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Those are the things the Jackass guys got shot with in the first movie. The company called it a “Stingmore” mine.
Way too many people are comfortable with utilizing anything referred to as a “mine” against unarmed civilians.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That and the fact it’s directly attacking your civil rights to free speech and an unprovoked attack. So it’s definitely unconstitutional.
obsoleteacct@lemm.ee 4 months ago
There’s a distance at which they stop being “less-lethal”. At 10 meters/30 feet they’re considered extremely dangerous. The “effective range” at which they’re generally considered less likely to penetrate is 20 to 30 meters (65 to 100 feet).
Lenses make estimating distance tricky, but based on the lines in the road, I don’t think she’s 20 meters away from that cop.
These journalists need body armor and helmets if they’re going to be that close to American Police. Back in 2011 an Iraq War vet named Scott Olsen was head shot at a distance of a few feet fracturing his skull and when some protestors tried to rescue him they flashbanged the rescue effort. It’s extremely unsafe to be that close to these guys.
NutWrench@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
This wasn’t a “stray round.” That shot was deliberate and that pig knew exactly what he was aiming at.
Nelots@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
The dude literally waited until he was on camera to take the shot. Not only did he know exactly what he was aiming at, he wanted to be seen doing it.
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 4 months ago
LA cops are notorious assholes. He could hardly wait to get home and pull it up the clip and show everybody: “Hey everybody! Look what Daddy did at work today! I shot an unarmed journalist for doing her job! Funny, right?”
Guaranteed he’s emailing the clip to everyone he knows.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m so glad that it was completely caught on camera so there’s no wriggling out of it. It was deliberate at close range.
US officials have some answering to do to us.
Though, we all know we won’t get shit, as their vassals.
Maybe we’ll do some more war crimes on their behalf, you know, as a treat. Then lock up the whistleblower 👍👍👍
lowleekun@ani.social 4 months ago
People killed by the german police in 2024 (record year): 22 People killed by the police in the united states in 2022: 1176 Well i guess we only have 1/4 of the population so 50 times the number of deaths is normal is to be expected.
Atropos@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Based on my American public school education, math checks out!
MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee 4 months ago
roughly 13 times the german record if you adjust for population. still fucked.
grue@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Somebody should mirror that video somewhere that isn’t a nazi platform.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Wider video here. Genuinely not sure what the fuck he was thinking.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Thinking? He’s a cop. He probably thought she wasn’t “in her place”, or was “disrespecting his authority”. Or he’s a psychopath…
Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Thx for better video. Just in case this goes on catbox too:
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Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Syrc@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Jack@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I think the provocation was her reporting facts. Can’t have that when most voters have chosen Trump.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Imagine believing there was unbiased reporting about protests before trump.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Imagine believing there was unbiased reporting about protests before trump.
Liberal news journalists come in two flavors:
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We love the cops and we’re trying to figure out why everyone is so angry at them all the time. To answer this question, we asked the cops.
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Ever since <Insert Republican> has taken power, the police have been ordered to do things that some people are saying is bad. But is it for our own benefit? To answer this question, we interviewed a member of the <Insert Republican> administration who supports it and a cop who is feeling anxiety over following these orders.
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MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee 4 months ago
imagine not understanding that shit has gotten far worse.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 months ago
There’s zip about this in the Australian TV news this morning. One of their own and they still don’t have the balls.
destructdisc@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Channel 9 reported it as her being “caught in the crossfire”, as if she got hit in a gun battle between protesters and cops or something
Mirshe@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Especially since you can see the cop in question pointing his weapon directly at her and her news crew.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Mainstream media is complicit with Trump’s fascism. Which is to be expected with capitalists.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
When they shoot we need to shoot back
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
What’s IDF for non Americans?
Otherwise, cops shooting at journalists is pretty worrisome.
Pnut@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Imagine if you were the security guard at literally anywhere and did this. Not only would you be fired. You would likely not work security ever again. Also, you’d face criminal charges. I get cops have more responsibility than a security guard at the mall. But the video evidence shows us a clear psychopath that wouldn’t qualify for a security guard position. Will there be punishment? Maybe an investigation? Not really. American police are not police any more. They’re the SS. And they will shoot kids dead for looking in the wrong direction. We are far beyond the point of no return.
MetalMachine@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Police with this behavior should be fired and prosecuted. Unacceptable.
Taleya@aussie.zone 4 months ago
C’mon, the camera was coming straight for him!
mcv@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Surely that guy will now be fired and charged with assault? This was completely unwarranted.
Frostbeard@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Bullet proof west with PRESS on it and a helmet/glasses. Trump made a war zone so it should be treated as a war zone.
Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 4 months ago
While I detest violence in all forms, and respect peaceful protest and the power of the ballot box; it seems like the current administration is doing everything it can to disenfranchise the voters of this country, and preemptively using violence against peaceful protesters. I hope things don’t tip too far, because while Americans don’t riot like the French at the drop of a hat, there is an enormous amount of anger simmering among the working class people in this country, and I’d hate to see that erupt. If it does come to a head it will make the Paris riots like a sunny day on Lake Geneva.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And a British one, too.
RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Cops FAIL hard when it matters. All the time.
teamevil@lemmy.world 4 months ago
2nd time Trump’s bullshit lead to an Australian reporter getting assaulted on air.
RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Police departments in the US train with the IDF and then bring their tactics back to the US
hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
I think Trump dreams of a civil war. That will be the perfect excuse to hurry the slow dictatorship takeover.
That is slowly happening anyway, while people are still having wet dreams of democracy.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That police officer is POS and knew exactly where he was aiming.
RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 4 months ago
We will have no video evidence of our obvious fascism, thank you!
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If DFAT still don’t update their travel advice after this…
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fuck 12
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You know shits getting real when the cops will shoot at a blonde white girl.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s called flirting. Or maybe he asked her out and she rejected him. It really could go both ways.
Klear@lemmy.world 4 months ago
She certainly didn’t dodge a bullet with him.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 4 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.
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.