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A Boring Dystopia

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It was a "rubber" bullet, but still.

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[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 45 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Do they think they are using paintball guns? What's going on?

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 79 points 3 days ago

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!).

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's not like paintball doesn't hurt a lot from this range either...

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

“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

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 18 points 3 days ago

Psychopaths want to bully and hurt people (especially "the libs" protesting), and there's no consequences for them.