destructdisc@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agoThe Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.video.twimg.comvideomessage-square50linkfedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: thepoliceproblem@lemmy.world
arrow-up114arrow-down1videoThe Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.video.twimg.comdestructdisc@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agomessage-square50linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: thepoliceproblem@lemmy.world
minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoIt 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.
minus-squareOrganicMustard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoBecause 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.
minus-squarePhil_in_here@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoWell, you have to have something heavy to hold enough inertia to have a deterring impact. How else are you supposed to suppress the growing second class citizenry? Communicate?
minus-squareLumisal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoNo, more like wrapping metal in rubber, as you had described. No need to downplay it. It’s like getting the end of one of these lobbed at you:
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoYeah, 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.
minus-squarelautre@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoYes, they are “less-lethal” but there are still hundreds of cases where people have been killed or permanently disabled because of these.
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.
Well, you have to have something heavy to hold enough inertia to have a deterring impact.
How else are you supposed to suppress the growing second class citizenry? Communicate?
No, more like wrapping metal in rubber, as you had described. No need to downplay it.
It’s like getting the end of one of these lobbed at you:
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.
Yes, they are “less-lethal” but there are still hundreds of cases where people have been killed or permanently disabled because of these.
Paintballs can blind you