It was a “rubber” bullet, but still.
US is just North Korea, with internet
Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things
Submitted 11 months ago by destructdisc@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
https://files.catbox.moe/dnwrze.mp4
Comments
And009@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Krauerking@lemy.lol 11 months ago
And a much wealthier upper class with better connections than some basketball star.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hollywood needs to pump out more REAL cop shows, where they show how cowardly, fat and racists cops are.
anachronist@midwest.social 11 months ago
That’s actually what Hollywood did until the red scare. Hence the “keystone cops” of early cinema.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
The purpose of Hollywood is entertainment and helping out manufacture consent (not necessarily in that order), not raising awareness on subjects were people’s increased awareness would threaten the power of the elites, so when it comes to the minions of the elites it’s pretty much all either “Heroes of Justice” or, at most, “Most are Good Guys but there’s a few bad apples”.
masta_chief@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The only things that can get made here anymore are commercials and corporate slop. Need funding for film and TV so some real shit gets made not just the usual garbage
jonne@infosec.pub 11 months ago
But when Hollywood did, nobody wanted to actually talk about Rampart.
7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Haha holy shit rampart. What a dumpster fire of an ama.
For those that are curious Web search
Rampart Woody Harrelson ama
SilverFlame@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t know, it seemed like at least one person wanted to talk about Rampart (exclusively).
CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That is fucking nuts. If you have 50 police officers you do not need to shoot a woman who is VERY clearly not a fucking threat. Holy shit they treated her like she was carrying
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They kept shooting at her even when she was limping away crying and someone trying to help her. So being a threat I think was the least of their concerns. Seems more like they were enjoying target practice.
django@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
My european brain could not handle why this would be the way to treat a pregnant person until I realized, that this might be about a weapon instead of a child.
The context might make this obvious for people who are more used to guns than babies, but I was very confused.
Fillicia@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
My Canadian brain was in the same boat. I had to wonder if it was an joke about cops shooting pregnant people that I wasn’t american enough to understand.
18107@aussie.zone 11 months ago
It was a rubber coated metal bullet fired at close range.
You do not shoot someone unless you want them dead.
jonne@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Yeah, that was close enough to kill. She might have internal bleeding for all we know.
regedit@feddit.online 11 months ago
Shit, as prior military we were taught you don't point your weapon at anything or anyone unless you're prepared to pull the trigger. The fact that all the others on that line had their weapons down, but this dude has his up the whole time, tells you all you need to know about the lack of training of that individual.
arin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
None of the other cops stopped him from firing his weapon at the innocent lady
AA5B@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We put too much stock in training here, for things that should be obvious. How do we know you shouldn’t do that? I haven’t had any police training.
This is related to that “qualified immunity” bullshit. Somehow we let what could have been an appropriate thing turn into cops being above the law except in rare cases they were specifically trained for and there is existing case law. Bullshit. All too many of these look interesting headline cases start with “any sane person knows …” yet cops are above the law
koper@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Lack of training
On the contrary, these pigs are doing exactly what the people in power want them to.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Do they think they are using paintball guns? What’s going on?
Empricorn@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Psychopaths want to bully and hurt people (especially “the libs” protesting), and there’s no consequences for them.
jonne@infosec.pub 11 months ago
No cop has ever been held accountable for whatever bullshit they pull when they’re in riot gear. They’re basically anonymous and the worst that will happen is a civil settlement with the city (which won’t even come out of the police budget!).
sanpo@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
It’s not like paintball doesn’t hurt a lot from this range either…
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Have you seen the damage caused by their bullets? It’s like using frozen paintballs, at the high end of allowed PSI, but the size of a golf ball. LA civilians rn are under hostile armed force. They need an armed resistance.
Owlboi@lemm.ee 11 months ago
reminder that “non lethal weapons” are actually just “less lethal weapons”. rubber bullets, tear gas and tasers absolutely can and have killed people.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was wondering, if someone shot rubber bullets at a cop, would they be charged with attempted murder or assault?
LordGimp@lemm.ee 11 months ago
In America, you can be charged with murder if the person arresting you has a heart attack.
nbcnews.com/…/charges-dropped-guatemalan-farmwork…
So shooting anything at a cop is most likely summary execution at the scene.