It was a “rubber” bullet, but still.
Supposedly how would it be if protesters loaded water balloons with liquid ass and threw it at them?
Liquid ass is too nice for Gestapo
Punk-ass cowards. Trigger-happy pigs. Death to them all.
Do they think they are using paintball guns? What’s going on?
No cop has ever been held accountable for whatever bullshit they pull when they’re in riot gear. They’re basically anonymous and the worst that will happen is a civil settlement with the city (which won’t even come out of the police budget!).
Psychopaths want to bully and hurt people (especially “the libs” protesting), and there’s no consequences for them.
It’s not like paintball doesn’t hurt a lot from this range either…
Have you seen the damage caused by their bullets? It’s like using frozen paintballs, at the high end of allowed PSI, but the size of a golf ball. LA civilians rn are under hostile armed force. They need an armed* resistance to take out the members of the police that do not act as police. They do not get punished. They just get deployed again.
*I know this is difficult. Non lethal weapons are harder to obtain than lethals, and the moment the resistance use lead is the moment the invading army do too.
“Less lethal” as in “lethal less often [than bullets].”
Remember that there is no such thing as a “non lethal” weapon and these blackshirts are casually gambling with other peoples lives
AND THE LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND OF THE FREEEEEEEEEEEE AND THE HOOOOOOOOOOME OF THEEEEEEEE BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAVEEEE…
Remember that part of your anthem America?
TBF you do have to be pretty fucking brave to live there.
Or white
That person was white.
Fact, and the privilege to even consider let alone walk to a like of cops in full anti-riot gear should be saying something.
I think being a woman lessens the privilege a bit.
The land of the fee and the home of the slave
What? The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy.
Ah shit, the government is the one who said that…
(It’s a song lyric from Rage Against the Machine)
(I didn’t know, but that makes sense)
“Rubber” bullets are steel bullets coated in rubber.
… or fully rubber or wood or foam or kevlar baggies full of lead or any combination of those.
And can easily break bones or maim if used incorrectly.
That is fucking nuts. If you have 50 police officers you do not need to shoot a woman who is VERY clearly not a fucking threat. Holy shit they treated her like she was carrying
They kept shooting at her even when she was limping away crying and someone trying to help her. So being a threat I think was the least of their concerns. Seems more like they were enjoying target practice.
My european brain could not handle why this would be the way to treat a pregnant person until I realized, that this might be about a weapon instead of a child.
The context might make this obvious for people who are more used to guns than babies, but I was very confused.
My Canadian brain was in the same boat. I had to wonder if it was an joke about cops shooting pregnant people that I wasn’t american enough to understand.
I think it’s because downtown LA had a curfew. But that’s kinda bullshit because where else would this person go if she cane home after working a night shift? Sleeping outside would also break curfew
She was a local resident trying to get to her home
Yeah that’s what I’m saying. These fucking pigs that don’t even deserve to be on the same level of pigs
Real pigs are capable of empathy, unlike these fascist bastards
Maybe not every single one of them will shoot an unarmed civilian, but all of them just stood by and did nothing.
Verdict: ACAB.
It would be funny if one of them arrested the shooter on the spot
Wouldn’t be a shame if those Nazis got shot in the face with a hot turd.
Hit em with the Glock Dookie
With a lead core like those rubber"bullets"
Those hot turds of yours… What’s their diameter?
…in Millimeters?
Hollywood needs to pump out more REAL cop shows, where they show how cowardly, fat and racists cops are.
But when Hollywood did, nobody wanted to actually talk about Rampart.
I don’t know, it seemed like at least one person wanted to talk about Rampart (exclusively).
Haha holy shit rampart. What a dumpster fire of an ama.
For those that are curious Web search
Rampart Woody Harrelson ama
The only things that can get made here anymore are commercials and corporate slop. Need funding for film and TV so some real shit gets made not just the usual garbage
The purpose of Hollywood is entertainment and helping out manufacture consent (not necessarily in that order), not raising awareness on subjects were people’s increased awareness would threaten the power of the elites, so when it comes to the minions of the elites it’s pretty much all either “Heroes of Justice” (with a side of “anything is acceptable in the pursuit of Justice” or, at most, “Most are Good Guys but there’s a few bad apples”.
Manufacturers of “less lethal” rubber rounds do not consider them safe at that range. They’re considered very dangerous with a high risk of death within about 10 meters.
That’s a seriously injured, unarmed, citizen and not only do they not lift a finger to help they seem to fire at the woman trying to help her.
You’re also supposed to bounce them off the ground. Never a direct hit.
I think you’re thinking of tear gas rounds. Trying to bounce rubber bullets sounds less predictable. But yeah, don’t shoot this close, especially not at a peaceful citizen.
Nah, it’s the non lethal rounds they fire, but it sounds like there are newer ones as well that can be fired directly.
Originally, they were intended to be bounced off the ground when the British designed them.
Looks like LAPD now use some that are intended to be bounced off the ground, and some that are meant to be fired directly at the target.
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-MIGRATION/PROTEST-LOSANGELES-WEAPONS/zdpxalxkyvx/
In fact, the LAPD does not use rubber bullets, the department told Reuters.
Instead, the LAPD uses foam rounds, a condensed sponge projectile that resembles a hard Nerf ball.
One version, which has a plastic body with a hard foam nose, is fired from a 40mm launcher and is usually aimed directly at a target.
A second version, fired from a 37mm launcher, disperses five foam baton rounds toward the ground in front of a hostile crowd once an unlawful assembly has been declared, before bouncing up into the crowd. It is not to be fired directly at individuals, the LAPD said.
However in the past, even with ones that are meant to be targeted at the ground, police have often been found aiming them at people. So I wouldn’t be surprised if/when the LAPD fires the 37mm versions directly at people either.
Ah, didn’t know that. Thank you for educating me.
I thought they were all supposed to be at the ground as well, so I learned too!
Wait, so LAPD is armed with nerf guns?
What was going on in the background during the last 10 seconds of the video? You hear a bang, then someone repeating “Watch your legs officers!”.
Watch you legs means the horse police is going to run over people
Well, she might have been an undercover reporter, what choice did they have?
Obviously Hamas
Fuck 12.
These people are not working for justice, they criminals
No. When they do it, it’s legal.
