BroadwaybabytoJun 8, 2025

ICE shot a journalist in the leg. A journalist.

They’re shooting people who are there to cover the protests as an essential part of the freedom of the press and the right to free speech.

It was apparently a “less lethal” round (ie rubber bullets) yet emergency surgery is required.

This regime has already silenced so many journalists.

Kicked them out of the Oval Office and filled it with “friendlies” (ie propagandists).

These are dark times:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/08/la-protests-photographer-hit-by-non-lethal-rounds

#uspol #fascism #authoritarianism #ice #abolishice

British photojournalist hit by non-lethal rounds during Los Angeles protests

Nick Stern to undergo surgery for wound sustained during the standoff between police and anti-Ice protesters

The Guardian
Show threadProcrvstinvtionJun 8, 2025
@broadwaybabyto it was non lethal rounds that caused those 4(?) people to lose one of their eyes during the George Floyd protests
Show threadKathmandu

@Procrvstinvtion @broadwaybabyto

One was the journalist Linda Tirado, I remember.

She said even with "non-lethal" rounds, the police are SUPPOSED to fire at the ground in front of someone, and let the bullet bounce up into them. Because a direct hit still carries too much force.
In those protests, the police were violating policy by shooting directly at people. Sounds like ICE is doing that again now.

Jun 8, 2025 at 11:34pmWeb
Show threadcwicseolfor (has moved!)Jun 9, 2025
@Kathmandu @Procrvstinvtion @broadwaybabyto I’ve been pleased to hear some TV reporters adopting the framing of “less-lethal” rounds (many years late to their literal job, but hey!), as nonlethal is a bit optimistic and there’s suggestion that framing makes both LEOs and the public more cavalier about their use.