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The pig sees her, turns, aims, and shoots her almost point blank.
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.
Much more likely he'll get paid leave to deal with the "trauma" of the negative attention he'll get.
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 idiots, 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. Even after violent rightwing fascists attempted a literal coup on Jan 6 y'all still wanted to be afraid of leftists more than rightwing mobs actually assaulting the U.S. capitol.
Over the years I have wasted soo soo soooooo much breath talking to older boomer conservatives who believed themselves to be centrists or even democrats, and it was all a damn waste of time, these people have brainworms and admitting they have been living inside a bubble that popped late in their life interferes too much with their ego and sense of impending mortality (have I lived a life and learned worse than nothing about what the future will be????) for them to listen to kindness. Bypass these people and organize with people who understand, leave the naysayers I am criticizing behind and let them catch up once they realize how truly alone they are (with no younger people on their side from the conservative or leftist end of the spectrum).
spits on the authoritarian, rightwing dictatorship at my feet
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.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.
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.
"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.
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 like nerf toys.
This wasn't a "stray round." That shot was deliberate and that pig knew exactly what he was aiming at.
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.
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.
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.
Based on my American public school education, math checks out!
Somebody should mirror that video somewhere that isn't a nazi platform.
Wider video here. Genuinely not sure what the fuck he was thinking.
Thinking? He's a cop. He probably thought she wasn't "in her place", or was "disrespecting his authority". Or he's a psychopath...
I think the provocation was her reporting facts. Can't have that when most voters have chosen Trump.
There’s zip about this in the Australian TV news this morning. One of their own and they still don’t have the balls.
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
Especially since you can see the cop in question pointing his weapon directly at her and her news crew.
What's IDF for non Americans?
Otherwise, cops shooting at journalists is pretty worrisome.
What’s IDF for non Americans?
The Israeli army
Surely that guy will now be fired and charged with assault? This was completely unwarranted.
Best I can do is 3 day suspension with pay, and it'll be cleared from his record next year.
And a British one, too.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/los-angeles-protest-photographer-surgery/
Cops FAIL hard when it matters. All the time.
Thats not a failure. You can see it raising its weapon to take a pot shot. It's deliberately doing atrocities.
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.
2nd time Trump's bullshit lead to an Australian reporter getting assaulted on air.
Police departments in the US train with the IDF and then bring their tactics back to the US
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.