Let me make a correction: bullets, they’re bullets. You never point a gun at something or someone that you don’t intend on destroying. Guns are tools. They have a purpose. If you’re running after a turkey with a hand saw you’ve lost your fucking mind. If you are shooting people exercising the same rights you have then it’s about the same. For fuck sake, they had to change the definition from “non-lethal” to “less than lethal” to avoid murder charges. Of which, there were many.
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.
Please remember this when you (generic “you” here) read the words “non-lethal”.
“Non-lethal” is marketing to make it not sound as horrible as it is.
Non-lethal?
Less-lethal?
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‘Potentially Lethal’, restructures the phrasing to be less disarming and reassuring, to being more worrisome and concerning.
‘Maiming Munitions’ has some alliteration to it.
Both of those phrases are just as if not more factually accurate.
This is how you play the language manipulation game.
I kind of like the alliteration actually, but I also think most people in the US (this is a sad statement in education) wouldn’t understand it. Potentially lethal is probably better.
I was a copy editor at a small newspaper for about a year.
This shit isn’t hard.
Its a willful choice for journos to go along with copaganda phrasing… or, well, now that they have done it willingly for so long that a fascist is in charge… well now maybe you could call the use of copaganda due to the chilling effect.
Great job 90% of journalism majors from two decades ago, you failed us all.
So much for freedom of speech.
Saw that dude get hit and carried off in a live stream. Not wearing any big sign that says press. Sometimes even doing that doesn’t matter with these cops, but better at least do that if you’re only there to document it
You can’t just shoot people that aren’t breaking any laws. Press or not.
What they’ll lie and tell you is that a gathering can be declared illegal, but that’s bullshit. If I’m standing there peacefully and someone else does something illegal I have not violated the law. I should not be guilty by association and I should not be stripped of my rights to peacefully assemble.
This is a lie they’ve been telling us for centuries to silence dissent
Top tier victim blaming, my friend.
This dude is out here defending the police for every situation that happens in LA. They are pretending to be leftist but are actually a Nazi apologist. When I called them out for it they immediately jumped into my DMs and started threatening violence, fascist Nazi apologist 101.
If you were there he wouldn’t do or say a thing.
I’m stating the reality of the situation with fascist in the federal government and cops knowing they won’t be punished. I was watching live and seen this happen over and over ppl gotta be smarter here. (here for me is near LA)
The reality is this guy got shot in the back, right?
His left leg as he was facing about 45 deg away from the cops is what i saw. he had just turned to face that way when got shot. If you’re thinking of the Australian reporter that’s different
Source here says back of the thigh. Was wearing his press pass around his neck and his camera.
I haven’t seen the video, but you’re saying he’d just turned.
Reading between the lines here - if he’d been slower turning, or not turned at all, that bullet would have been much closer to his testicles.
Before someone says I’m reaching:
- City of LA Pays $200k to protestor whose testicle was destroyed by rubber bullet
- Different protestor calls for changes at LAPD after testicle is ruptured by rubber bullet
- Police bias trainer shot while holding hands up in San Jose, suffers ruptured testicle
- LAPD shoots man with hands up at point blank range in testicles with rubber bullet
I don’t know. I don’t see any shades of gray here, just black and more black.
Would be far more viable had the Australian press not also been shot.
You’d think the microphone and news camera crew would give away the fact that they’re press, but I guess not. The PRESS identification is generally seen worn by war correspondents, rather than standadd press (they use lanyards moreso than flak jackets).
That being said; there is definitely an argument to be made that the US should be receiving war correspondents rather than standard journalists; and journalists being shot on camera definitely strengthens that argument.
Sending war journos would definitely send a message.
Standing still in front of a television camera man with nothing else around you, holding a microphone and talking in to the camera, while a fascist police calmly raises their gun in full view of the camera and shoots you in the back from about 10 yards away?
Also she was a woman.
…or are we talking about ANOTHER journalist they shot today? Surely there weren’t two?!
How many innocent people are they shooting, I wonder? How many are being disappeared to the American Gulags of El Salvador without a trial? The journalists at least have a voice, the others won’t be so lucky.
You’re thinking of the Australian woman who i also saw get shot live the next day (yesterday). The guy in the thumbnail is who I’m talking about and was the night prior
