Nice meme.
The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.
Submitted 11 months ago by destructdisc@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1931885158648672256/vid/avc1/1080x1920/bTGc2atY6r5auqle.mp4
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Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months 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.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
This will not be covered by the MSM.
Coverage seems pretty okay so far
…cnn.com/…/nine-news-reporter-la-hit-rubber-bulle…
www.bbc.com/news/videos/c98p008kxn1o
independent.co.uk/…/lapd-lauren-tomasi-australian…
thehill.com/…/5340014-australian-reporter-hit-rub…
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, not even the captured media is going to sit on one of their own being shot.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
But my arguments sound so good when I get to make things up…
Jack@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I think the provocation was her reporting facts. Can’t have that when most voters have chosen Trump.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Imagine believing there was unbiased reporting about protests before trump.
MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee 11 months ago
imagine not understanding that shit has gotten far worse.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 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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SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
When they shoot we need to shoot back
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Reported for inciting violence
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Go back to fucking reddit and eat boot leather
MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee 11 months ago
go fuck yourself
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What does boot taste like?
sparrownetwork@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wow, what a little bitch…
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months 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.
match@pawb.social 11 months ago
that’s definitionally not inciting
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 11 months ago
found the pig
markko@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I thought self-defence was legal in the US
Absaroka@lemmy.world 11 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.
obsoleteacct@lemm.ee 11 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.
AA5B@lemmy.world 11 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 11 months ago
It is a crime. Cops are effectively above the law.
CMonster@discuss.online 11 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 11 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 11 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.
Wolf314159@startrek.website 11 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.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 11 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 11 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.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They are getting young women and girls with the TERF stuff. No one is paying attention to this.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 11 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 11 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.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 11 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 11 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.
RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Police departments in the US train with the IDF and then bring their tactics back to the US
markko@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And training period for cops there is shockingly short compared to other places
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Which is one of the main reasons I pointed to when people would shout me down for sounding the alarm about the Palestinian Genocide because it was an irrelevant to US politics. The Palestinian Genocide is just a preview of our future, the signs are clear as day, our police trained HEAVILY with the IDF which is not really a functional military more like a police state apparatus.
The IDF has no idea how to do an armored maneuver against a near-peer enemy that also has armor, AA and artillery, it only knows how to enclose people in literal and surveillance prisons and push “soldiers” to acclimate to killing innocent civilians.
Not a war, a GENOCIDE.
teamevil@lemmy.world 11 months ago
2nd time Trump’s bullshit lead to an Australian reporter getting assaulted on air.
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 11 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.
MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee 11 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 11 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.
dermanus@lemmy.ca 11 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 11 months ago
Did you see the new studies? It turns out pead sooves trauma in cases like these
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 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.
lautre@jlai.lu 11 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.
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 11 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.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 11 months ago
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 11 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.
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 11 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?
kcuf2@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Paintballs can blind you
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 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.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
[deleted]Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Got to wear giant lettered press sign
The big broadcast grade microphone and camera with the station logo should be more than plenty.
The cop knew and either didn’t care or targeted her BECAUSE she was press.
blueamigafan@lemmy.world 11 months 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?
Rooskie91@discuss.online 11 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 11 months ago
Wait until you find out the entire history of usa…
RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 11 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 11 months ago
You mean the democracy and freedom they were spreading finally reached home.
NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]Empricorn@feddit.nl 11 months ago
“20-30 yards”!? I’m assuming you’re in the US as well, so you should know yards better than that. But I’m not going to quibble over exact distance. He shot a reporter! Not in the midst of defending himself. He was standing, then raised his rifle, aimed, and deliberately fired on an uninvolved member of the media obviously covering the situation with a microphone. THAT’S the issue.
SaltSong@startrek.website 11 months ago
I’m curious to know what you think “point blank” means.
match@pawb.social 11 months ago
RAW for Point Blank Shot in 5e has it within 5 feet
Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I’ll admit that before reading this comment thread I probably would have said that point blank is so close you could basically reach out and touch, or nearly touch, the target.
I do hope, however, that I would look it up before contesting how it was used.
destructdisc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Judging by their relative sizes in the screengrab and with some quick back-of-the-envelope math, the cop is about 5 meters away from her. That’s pretty fucking close to point blank, no?
SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
IIRC ‘point blank’ means no need to adjust for bullet drop due to gravity. This is well within that.
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
20-30 yards
I think you’re confusing feet with yards. That’s like 10 yards max
ramenbelly@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
10 yards max
grue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Somebody should mirror that video somewhere that isn’t a nazi platform.
Syrc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Wider video here. Genuinely not sure what the fuck he was thinking.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You know shits getting real when the cops will shoot at a blonde white girl.
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
What’s IDF for non Americans?
Otherwise, cops shooting at journalists is pretty worrisome.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fuck 12