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An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"
(www.motherjones.com)
Threatened? So they didn't ID them.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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What's wrong is that officers of the law are allowed to lie like that, yet still want to be respected.
Yeah, it's frustrating. We need to end Qualified Immunity pronto.
In lying's defense, they shouldn't be respected when they say that regardless of its truthiness
Follow Hong Kong tactics and use umbrellas to shield from above.
Laser pointer
They'd come kill you for that.
they're already on the verge of it, may as well hang for a sheep
Is it plausible this might cause the helicopter to crash somehow? I wouldn't want to risk that.
No no, couldn't have that, would be a shame
a helicopter crash in a populated area has a high likelihood of collateral damage
America land of the free /s
Checking out women sunbathing in backyards or other places.
LOL
From the country meant to represent freedom. No more!
Never was
Wait wdym? Not even in the 18th-19th century?
To ad to others that already commented:
Brutal colonialism and imperialism, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippines to name only a few.
No, even in 1776, there were contemporaries who mocked a bunch of rich slave owners talking about freedom while stealing land from native americans. American freedom had always been the freedom for the ruling class to exploit the underclass.
correct, see for example the reactions to the US's decision to invade and seize territory from Mexico, which was largely seen as a betrayal of liberal values that the country was supposedly founded on. Don't worry, the US isn't the only country to justify their revolution with promises of liberal ideals like freedom and equality only to expose their true priorities later (namely giving local colonial elites more power than those ruling monarchs in Europe). I recommend reading the chapter on Bolivarian revolutions from the history book Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America for more about the disappointments and failures of liberal revolutions to live up to their promises.
Green lasers. Everybody should have one.
Check comment above. This is a terrible idea. You'll go from 2 stars to 5.
They have sonic weapons. They run over people with horses and armored vehicles.
But they won't have copters to track you down and green lasers take out CCDs like nothing else. If they wanted to fly they shouldn't have weaponized the sky and flight.
What about walkie talkies? Short wave radios? Older tech comms devices?
What about open source open hardware anti-air missiles?
This first thing you should do when going protesting, is to leave your phone at home.
and cover your face if you are in a shithole country like USA, Turkey, Russia etc
USA ... the world's richest third world country.
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