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.
British photojournalist hit during Los Angeles protests to undergo emergency surgery
Submitted 4 days ago by daniel_callahan@jlai.lu to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/08/la-protests-photographer-hit-by-non-lethal-rounds
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Absaroka@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Hirom@beehaw.org 3 days ago
So much for freedom of speech.
Pnut@lemm.ee 3 days ago
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.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Saw that did get hit and carried off in a live stream. Not wearing any big sign that says press. Someone even that doesn’t matter with these cops but better at least do that if you’re there to document it
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Top tier victim blaming, my friend.
MontySaurus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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. Image
arrow74@lemm.ee 3 days ago
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.
javiwhite@feddit.uk 3 days ago
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.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sending war journos would definitely send a message.
obinice@lemmy.world 3 days ago
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.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
You’re thinking of the Australian. The guy in the thumbnail is who I’m talking about
bendovertherainbow@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
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.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Non-lethal?
Less-lethal?
…
Potentially Lethal, restructures the phrasing to be less disarming and reassuring, 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.
bendovertherainbow@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
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.