destructdiscThe Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.
SibboWhat’s IDF for non Americans?
Otherwise, cops shooting at journalists is pretty worrisome.
RozaŭtunoWhat’s IDF for non Americans?
The Israeli army
Somebody should mirror that video somewhere that isn’t a nazi platform.
BlackmistWider 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 mean he clearly sees her all the way through the video. There’s no shouting or warning, or any sign he’s about to do that.
It’s like he’s got a quota of people to shoot. “Ooh, it’s 4pm, time to take somebody’s legs out with a baton round!”
I mean, let’s not use charged language like ‘almost point blank’ when it clearly isn’t… to attempt to make it more provocative than it already is.
This is already a blatantly obvious unwarranted attack on a reporter and the 1A. An attack on someone who isn’t even participating in the protests, just reporting. Who the officer clearly saw. This is assault (edit: or battery, depending on your legal definitions and the jurisdiction).
But, ‘almost point blank’…? That’s like 20-30 yards there.
IIRC ‘point blank’ means no need to adjust for bullet drop due to gravity. This is well within that.
Honestly I assumed that it was a lot closer than that too, by that definition since I have a 50-200yd zero on my rifle, that’d mean anything out to 200yd is technically “point blank” which kinda seems like not how the phrase is usually used.
No, for you it would be anything within 50 that’s essentially an easy shot. No leading or anything like that.
At 200 yards the bullet has curved above the point of aim and fallen back down to your impact point.
I’ve rethought actually, and technically, since gravity starts to affect it the second it leaves the muzzle (trajectory is parabolic because your muzzle is aimed slightly up, not because bullets defy gravity), there is no point blank past the muzzle.
Okay bub
Don’t blame me, blame the dictionary that decided to define it by “affected by gravity” which honestly it still would be affected by gravity in the barrel even, since it’s on damn earth. I guess point blank only exists in space lol.
“Point-blank range is any distance over which a certain firearm or gun can hit a target without the need to elevate the barrel to compensate for bullet drop, i.e. the gun can be pointed horizontally at the target.[1][2]”
nrawomen.com/…/dispelling-the-myth-of-bullet-rise
The law of universal gravitation means that a bullet leaving the muzzle of the barrel travels in a straight line from the muzzle until the effects of gravity. As stated above, the effect of gravity starts working on the bullet immediately.
The barrel of the firearm must be slightly elevated when fired, or the bullet would drop and come into contact with the ground very fast and relatively close to the where the projectile exits the muzzle. In reality, the rifle muzzle is elevated, and the line of sight is downward toward the target. To put it in reference, when your sights are on a target, your barrel is pointed upward. Even at close range, the muzzle is elevated, be it very slightly and when aiming, the line of sight is slightly downward.
SaltSongI’m curious to know what you think “point blank” means.
Match!!RAW for Point Blank Shot in 5e has it within 5 feet
Saw that happen in live stream. These fascists don’t give a fuck. Got to wear giant lettered press sign here for real for your own protection
Got to wear giant lettered press sign
The big broadcast grade microphone and camera with the station logo should be more than plenty.
The cop knew and either didn’t care or targeted her BECAUSE she was press.
I know but forgive me for trying to encourage ppl protecting yourself as much as possible.
Nazi apologist.
LOL I’m fucking protesting!!!
just trying to say ppl need to be smart.
FUCK YOU
this is absurd. Seriously deranged
And I’m deranged. This is exactly how fascists work, get called out, gets overly defensive, and then threaten violence. Thank you for showing your real colors, truly a Nazi apologist psycho.
calm down both of you, there’s a real enemy to fight
It should also be noted that the term “rubber bullet” is exceedingly euphemistic.
So-called ‘rubber bullets’ are huge and have been known to maim and blind people. These aren’t tiny little paintball rounds, folks.
Because most of them have a core of metal or other high density material and a softer exterior. It’s like wrapping a brick in a couple of layers of bubble wrap and hitting someone if the face with it.
u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)Yeah, in a different thread there were some drawings too.
Until today, I imagined rubber projectile being something that’s just something fast but soft, perhaps something that even disintegrates on impact.
Kind of like paintball.
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.
as long as his name isn’t pulicized, he’ll probably get off 100% clean. even if it is publicized, he’s probably fine.
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.
And the training hours for cops there is shockingly short compared to other counties
show the salaries next.
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
Look, you don’t understand. Biden didn’t use all the leverage he could with Israel, and was old. Democrats tried to give everyone healthcare… So obviously, “Both sides are exactly the same!”
Biden used zero leverage with Israel to the point that Israeli figures would openly brag about the US letting them do whatever they want.
They aren’t the same, at all, one is the bad cop and the other plays good cop.
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.
Meh, it is concerning but it is concerning in the sense that liberals and centrists won’t actually make an appeal to young people who are scared, all they will do is shame them for being lazy and sternly tell them their life is going to be MUCH harder than their parents so fall in line and get used to being screwed over and over and over again.
Conservatives appeal to young people with fascism, but that is not a new thing, it isn’t a new thing for young people to be enticed by it either, what is new is the cynicism of older people towards younger people being terrified of their future. It is disgusting, it honestly makes me want to vomit my body has no other response to my “elders” spitting in the face of scared angry children who only see toxic strong men and empty talking heads as role models.
Blame someone else other then Gen Z, I am sorry but I didn’t spend my whole life listening to boomers say “but what about McGovern! Fall in line stop complaining trust me I am older than you and have earned my cynicism, you will never win young people never vote” to then have the narrative instantaneously switch to “Gen Z has abandoned us for conservatives and are voting now why are the kids evil!?!?!”.
I have been using the word “pathetic” a lot lately, but I will use it again here because nowhere else fits the usage of the word better, stop being pathetic and stand up for kids instead of concern trolling about what is going through their heads as they watch the world fall apart around them while all the kind adults are mostly in utter denial about it and are useless as guiding figures.
SoftestSapphicWhen they shoot us we need to shoot back
Reported for inciting violence
that’s definitionally not inciting
go fuck yourself
Go back to fucking reddit and eat boot leather
I think the provocation was her reporting facts. Can’t have that when most voters have chosen Trump.
Imagine believing there was unbiased reporting about protests before trump. This has been going on since the founding enslavers…
imagine not understanding that shit has gotten far worse.
This will not be covered by the MSM.
Imagine if a cop was rubber bulleted tho. It would be even more endless copaganda…
What dat fascist culture do.
This will not be covered by the MSM.
Coverage seems pretty okay so far
…cnn.com/…/nine-news-reporter-la-hit-rubber-bulle…
www.bbc.com/news/videos/c98p008kxn1o
independent.co.uk/…/lapd-lauren-tomasi-australian…
thehill.com/…/5340014-australian-reporter-hit-rub…
nytimes.com/…/la-protests-reporter-shot-lauren-to…
But my arguments sound so good when I get to make things up…
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.
I mean they are failing at their jobs.
This is how they’re trained though. Especially those departments who were trained by the idf
I see a lot about IDF training and its a factor but lets not fall into the trap of “israel’s fault!!”
American cops do plenty of their own homegrown atrocity training
bigtiddygothLAPD shot a protester in the head with rubber bullets and refused to call an ambulance for her as she lay there bleeding and concussed; another protester was trampled and concussed by mounted police; countless other protestors were beat over the head savagely with batons… and this is only what was on video.
same protester that got trampled and concussed was the one shot in the head.
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.
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.
roughly 13 times the german record if you adjust for population. still fucked.