That police officer is POS and knew exactly where he was aiming.
The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.
Submitted 13 hours ago by destructdisc@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 17 minutes ago
klay1@lemmy.world 23 minutes ago
Even if the shot were accidental -> still not acceptable.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
And a British one, too.
destructdisc@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Okay but also, fuck LBC, they’re a rightwing (and Zionist) mouthpiece
pixelkitty@lemmy.world 4 hours 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.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 21 minutes 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.WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 2 hours 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 1 hour ago
Its only illegal if you get caught
MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee 40 minutes ago
same protester that got trampled and concussed was the one shot in the head.
lowleekun@ani.social 3 hours 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.
MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee 41 minutes ago
roughly 13 times the german record if you adjust for population. still fucked.
Atropos@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Based on my American public school education, math checks out!
mcv@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
Surely that guy will now be fired and charged with assault? This was completely unwarranted.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Surely that guy will now be
firedput on paid administrative leave andcharged with assaultgiven a lucrative job hosting a podcast?Practically guaranteed.
RealSpiderLane@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Careful, hosting a podcast makes one a strong contender for federal law enforcement leadership.
frezik@midwest.social 2 hours ago
Best I can do is 3 day suspension with pay.
Yeller_king@reddthat.com 58 minutes ago
The fuck is boring about someone being shot?
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 minutes ago
Shooting (and killing) journalists is an everyday occurence in Israel.
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
SOAD’s “Deer Dance” plays in my head a little too often these days.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
My favorite thing about SOAD is they opposed police brutality AND Tankies.
Absaroka@lemmy.world 7 hours 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.
obsoleteacct@lemm.ee 46 minutes 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.
AA5B@lemmy.world 5 hours 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 hours ago
It is a crime. Cops are effectively above the law.
Wolf314159@startrek.website 6 hours 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 5 hours 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 1 hour 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 6 hours ago
That and the fact it’s directly attacking your civil rights to free speech and an unprovoked attack. So it’s definitely unconstitutional.
RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Cops FAIL hard when it matters. All the time.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Thats not a failure. You can see it raising its weapon to take a pot shot. It’s deliberately doing atrocities.
RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I mean they are failing at their jobs.
Jack@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
I think the provocation was her reporting facts. Can’t have that when most voters have chosen Trump.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
Imagine believing there was unbiased reporting about protests before trump.
MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee 37 minutes ago
imagine not understanding that shit has gotten far worse.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 hour 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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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 8 hours 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 7 hours 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 6 hours 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 6 hours 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 hours ago
They are getting young women and girls with the TERF stuff. No one is paying attention to this.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 hours 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 7 hours 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.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 hours ago
It’s fine, I’m sure the “Justice” Department will make this right.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
You know shits getting real when the cops will shoot at a blonde white girl.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It’s called flirting. Or maybe he asked her out and she rejected him. It really could go both ways.
Klear@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
She certainly didn’t dodge a bullet with him.
blueamigafan@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Zero justification, not a stray bullet etc, he literally aims and shoots at the camera, what in the fuck is going on over their?
RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 8 hours 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 5 hours ago
You mean the democracy and freedom they were spreading finally reached home.
Rooskie91@discuss.online 5 hours 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 5 hours ago
Wait until you find out the entire history of usa…
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 9 hours 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 7 hours 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 7 hours 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 6 hours ago
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 7 hours 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.
lautre@jlai.lu 3 hours ago
Yes, they are “less-lethal” but there are still hundreds of cases where people have been killed or permanently disabled because of these.
kcuf2@lemmynsfw.com 8 hours ago
Paintballs can blind you
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours 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.
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 9 hours 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.
MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee 33 minutes 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.
dermanus@lemmy.ca 6 hours 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 3 hours ago
Did you see the new studies? It turns out pead sooves trauma in cases like these
Enkrod@feddit.org 5 hours 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.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
When they shoot we need to shoot back
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Reported for inciting violence
MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee 36 minutes ago
go fuck yourself
markko@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I thought self-defence was legal in the US
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
People on the side of the cops will learn soon they are on the wrong side of polite society, and the wrong side of history.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
found the pig
match@pawb.social 4 hours ago
that’s definitionally not inciting
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
What does boot taste like?
sparrownetwork@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Wow, what a little bitch…
RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
We will have no video evidence of our obvious fascism, thank you!
grue@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Somebody should mirror that video somewhere that isn’t a nazi platform.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Saw that happen in live stream
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Fuck 12
teamevil@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
2nd time Trump’s bullshit lead to an Australian reporter getting assaulted on air.
RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Police departments in the US train with the IDF and then bring their tactics back to the US
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
What’s IDF for non Americans?
Otherwise, cops shooting at journalists is pretty worrisome.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Damn, maybe it really should have been the greens after all.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
This will not be covered by the MSM.
Imagine if a cop was rubber bulleted tho. It would be even more endless copaganda…
What dat fascist culture do.
NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I mean, let’s not use charged language like ‘almost point blank’ when it clearly isn’t… to attempt to make it more provocative than it already is.
This is already a blatantly obvious unwarranted attack on a reporter and the 1A. An attack on someone who isn’t even participating in the protests, just reporting. Who the officer clearly saw. This is assault.
But, ‘almost point blank’…? That’s like 20-30 yards there.
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Nice meme.
NutWrench@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
This wasn’t a “stray round.” That shot was deliberate and that pig knew exactly what he was aiming at.
Nelots@lemmy.zip 1 hour 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.