9news are framing this as “caught in the crossfire of violent protests”. Last time I checked, the police weren’t protesting. I fucking despise this world sometimes.
The cop turned around, sighted her in, and pulled the trigger. He had ample opportunity to see her microphone or the camera she was talking to.
This was 1000% an intentional assault on the media.
But he really wanted to shoot someone, and is a cop. He probably got a promotion for keeping the peace.
9News is right leaning and has always sanewashed everything to do with Trump, along with the rest of the Australian mainstream media (which is all right wing, even the supposedly lefty ABC).
He was clearly shooting anyone in sight. This person had been facing the other way, no aggression.
Quit your crocodile defense.
I think you’re missing the /s tag here.
Fuck off, fuck the cops and fuck their nazi sympathizing defenders.
That’d be even worse retard
Have you actually come to enjoy the taste of rubber and leather?
Found the boot licker
aka a redditor.
You guys are so illiterate. One guy says cops suck. Another guy says “no, fuck you, cops suck.” And you just go off vibes. No ability to parse English. “Well he’s aggressively replying to someone hating cops, he must love them.”
I’m glad you posted this. I was thinking “why are these people agreeing with each other so combatively?”
Yeah if you assume people aren’t antagonistic it almost reads like they’re adding on / repeating the sentiment.
“Stop with the lies. Police did x, y, z.”
“Police did a, b, c. Stop the lies.”
Definitely doesn’t sound like they’re playing up police in any case
Land of the free, ladies and gentleman.
Was it a rubber bullet or a rubber coated steel bullet?
Because if its the latter, we should charge for attempted murder. Those are lethal bullets.
Rubber bullets are “less than lethal” ammunition. They can still seriously injure, permanently maim, and even kill. Cops have been known to target eyes and other vulnerable points to increase damage. If that sadism doesn’t horrify and disgust you, you’re not paying attention. So yeah, this should be prosecuted as a blatant attack on an obvious potentially deadly attack on a reporter…
This is why armed protests are effective.
Police don’t shoot at armed people nearly as often.
Because the people, equipped with the tools to defend themselves, might decide to defend themselves
I knew it… ACAB
How is this not an international incident?
Rubber coated metal.
Can we all just let America eat itself? Like, give it a few years to turn into fallout and then we can actually go in and fix it when the baddies eat each other? /S
Hey, hey, everyone calm down. I’m sure he’ll be appropriately reprimanded with paid leave and possibly given a raise for very obviously shooting a reporter on purpose. Poor guy. The injuries alone that he’ll receive for high fives and heil Hitler’s back at the precinct could throw out his shoulder.
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Fucked up, yes. But how the fuck is the cop supposed to be know who is who.
You realize that makes it worse, right? How the cop is shooting at someone who he has not identified as a threat?
Why is the cop standing there in your opinion? To shoot everyone except the press?
Look, the cop was just standing there assaulting people with a deadly weapon when this monster slowly stood there in the street talking into a camera. The sun was in his eyes and he could hardly register if she was a black trans person, the best course of action following his training was to try to remotely tap that ass without consent so he might be able to get a better view of her face. Besides she was Australian which basically means she’s a terrorist viololently invading our precious countryside. Long hair, that’s pretty much a mask for the back of your head, and masks are banned from protests, an admission of guilty one might say. Besides, any respectable woman would have been at home in the kitchen providing for her man. Harlots everywhere
I dont know which country you’re from, but in the US, everyone with a camera legally is press
Underpaid and overworked cops?? LOL! 40% of my city budget goes to police. Over 50% of the police force makes over $100,000 a year. The other 50% are close to it. They sit on their ass and look at everyone with disdain, that’s overwork. When I had a car stolen and I gave them hd footage of the theft, suspects, everything. They couldn’t even be bothered to pretend to care.
Anyways who the fuck do you think you’re kidding with this “underpaid cops” bullshit.
Disgusting, servile boot locker.
Watch the video again and ask yourself, was he in danger or just being a tyrannical pig?
I’ll keep repeating this because I think it’s important
Wear safety glasses
Not sunglasses, or shades or prescription glasses
Wear actual industrial rated workers safety glasses.
If you get those shots in your face, you’re going to lose an eye or both eyes. Safety glasses are designed for this kind of stuff and they actually work. It will stop those projectiles from damaging your eyes.
Cops all over the world are known to purposefully shoot people’s faces and heads. After the fact they will just argue that it didn’t happen, it was accidental, it was chaotic, it was dangerous, etc, etc … it won’t matter after the fact if you lose an eye or end up completely blind.
Wear safety glasses, they’re easy to find and easy to use.
Safety glasses are not designed to take a rubber bullet. I don’t know how well it would actually protect you.
Look at some wood turning or grinding videos. They are able to stop a peace of a angle grinder disk. They can take the force of a rubber bullet.
Edit: see this video. Wood exploded while turning and is stopped by face shield. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJhI_QweQ0M
If rubber bullets are going through your safety glasses than they are using lethal rounds that can punch through and into your skin and organs. At that point they aren’t using non lethal rubber bullets or pellets, they’re firing regular shotgun rounds at you that can kill you let alone endanger your eyes.
If a bullet or projectile can punch through safety glasses … it can go through your skull.
Even better: safety goggles that seal around the eyes or face to reduce chemical exposure as well as projectile. Not the shitty safety goggles you got in high school chemistry, but things that actually fit & conform to your face.
Safety glasses are bullet proof?
They will block the pepperballs, rubber bullets might break them but most could withstand the hit better than your eyeball. It would lessen the injury from any projectiles they’re currently using, not actual bullets.
Non lethal rounds means that whatever they’re shooting will hurt you but won’t kill you. So the projectile is moving slow enough that safety glasses would actually protect your eyes.
If they are shooting anything stronger then they are using lethal rounds that could go through your skull and no safety glasses can protect you from that.
The thing here is to protect your eyes … they don’t care if they blind you, to them they can say that they didn’t kill you. But I really don’t want to see any young person lose an eye to any of this stupidity.
Wear safety glasses … if you save your eyes, you can go out there and join movements longer and more often. If you lose an eye or go completely blind, you will wonder about everything you did.
It’s “less lethal,” not “non lethal.” Your point about safety glasses is still a good one though.
I agree … but I think law enforcement use the term ‘non-lethal’ as a bit of public relations and legal wording to make themselves look good.
To me … both ‘non-lethal’ and ‘less-lethal’ mean that they are less likely to kill you … but still have a good risk of killing you if they hit in the right place. But either terminology also means that if the projectile is small enough and fast enough … it would be fast enough to destroy your eye and blind you.
Good to know, hope to not need it.
Wow, tips formerly shared with each other in Belarus (e.g. this one or how to avoid to get dragged into a random van by a pseudo police) are now also valid in the USA…
Bringing my prescription safety glasses with me on the 14th
Don’t waste the money. Get ones that’ll work over your glasses, and preferably pick up some $10 Zenni glasses.
Never going back prescription safety glasses are so much better.
My work paid for them :)
Israel normalized violence against the press in the ultimate way
This is California, you seem confused
US police forces (including from Cali) sometimes get additional ‘training’ in israel. SOURCE: Times of Israel
You can see the cunt target her (or the camera operator) while she is talking to camera - big brave boy
Wow I didn’t notice that at first. On the second watch, it’s creepy as fuck. It’s not some random shot that accidentally hits her. The cop just looks at her, calmly raises his gun and shoots her.
I hope his neighbors know.
But the protesters won’t be allowed to wear masks… wtf?!
I’m sure that they do, and approve.
That idiot thinks he is playing fucking paintball but rubber bullets can permanently injure people including causing blindness or head trauma.
Hey America are we great yet?
No, it will get greater yet!
Republicans are salivating at the thought of being able to shoot minorities and women. So in their mind yes 😭
Exactly. This is a wet dream of far too many wingnut jagoffs. They’ll mutter some bullshit about needing to burn it all down, cull the herd, and other very stupid things. Naturally, they think they will come out ahead as a result because of superior genetics or some such shit.
Also a lot of prepper dumbasses think their little pop guns will help them in some kind of major civil war/apocalypse, etc…
And the people who report openly and honestly what they are doing. In this case it was a toofer…
AKA, the “fake news”.
