Police detonated a ‘stinger’ grenade at a Melbourne protest. Now two activists may sue over their injuries

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• rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can’t be the only person to find it a bit mental that police have grenades, right?

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is a reason to have them, for SWAT (or whatever regional equivalent). They are useful for non-lethal assault of violent targets. If, for example, some terrorists decide to take some hostages, that’s where they should be used.

    They should not be bringing them to a protest though. That’s not the place for them, and the officers should be fired and the department investigated for misconduct.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sounds like a great way to turn a protest into a fucking violent riot

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    this is nuts. its and explosive and a hard casing outside of the rubber. I mean even with out the casing it would be dangerous but with it its crazy dangerous. I mean I would not want to be shot with a shotgun that was full of hard plastic bits.

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• markz@suppo.fi ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Okay so “stinger” is apparently a type of rubber bullet grenade.

  Not that kind of stinger

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  • SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeeeah, they don’t let you use dat no more.

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  • bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sponge_grenade

    Main use seems to be to cause confusion?

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    • markz@suppo.fi ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_ball

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• CompostMaterial@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As an American, I would like to know, is there any place in the world where the police haven’t gone full fascist?

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So far the police forces in Finland, Norway and Sweden seems less bad than most.

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    • CompostMaterial@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, who would have guessed that the Vikings would end up being the most civilized culture on the planet.

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    • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      yall require college degrees for that shit, right?

      imagine not just hiring random highschoolers and giving them guns, wack

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  • Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The function of the police is to enact the violence of the state and thus by proxy, capital. Hence, police are by definition always at least some degree of fascist.

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  • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is Melbourne. Australia’s most fascist state. It’s abhorrent.

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  • hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, they’re the voilet arm of governments. A police force is a sign of a failed state. You’re just outsourcing your bullying and violence.

    This chain of ludicrous events

    www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-29/…/105474690

    www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-19/…/105794888

    www.9news.com.au/…/d1a3613f-8884-40cb-a48a-150b83…

    Senior Constable Christopher Davis, 33, has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and recklessly causing grievous bodily harm over the violent altercation.

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