It was a “rubber” bullet, but still.
These cops are fucking scum and anybody who wears the LAPD badge should feel ashamed to be associated with them.
In 1992, LA had riots sparked by police brutality. Since then, the LAPD has striven to uphold the utmost standards in police work . . . lol, no, they made sure ACAB applies double to them.
No way I could be a cop. If I was standing in line with those guys and saw my coworker shoot a girl close range I’d punch him in the face. This is what people mean when they say ACAB. There’s no way a decent person can see a woman get shot like that and not want to help.
If I was standing in line with those guys and saw my coworker shoot a girl close range I’d punch him in the face.
You are right, no way you could be a cop.
I could, I’m morally dubious enough to ignore it. Then hand out coffee spiked with arsenic.
I could never date a cop either. Imagine the type of harm and harassment they could unleash on you if you broke up with them.
I wouldn’t even be friends with a cop.
I wouldn’t even be friends with a cop.
I absolutely won’t be friends with one. They have a dangerous mentality of escalating non-violent situations into violent ones, and they’ll never admit when they are wrong. Not the type of people I would ever want to associate with.
I’m polyamorous. I won’t even date someone who dates cops.
I’ve known two people that were briefly cops. They got out around one to two years doing it. That’s about how long you can be a cop before the other cops expect you to mutually get your hands dirty.
reminder that “non lethal weapons” are actually just “less lethal weapons”. rubber bullets, tear gas and tasers absolutely can and have killed people.
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.
It was a rubber coated metal bullet fired at close range.
You do not shoot someone unless you want them dead.
Yeah, that was close enough to kill. She might have internal bleeding for all we know.
Shit, as prior military we were taught you don’t point your weapon at anything or anyone unless you’re prepared to pull the trigger. The fact that all the others on that line had their weapons down, but this dude has his up the whole time, tells you all you need to know about the lack of training of that individual.
Lack of training
On the contrary, these pigs are doing exactly what the people in power want them to.
Pay no attention to LAPD, we purposely trained them wrong… as a joke.
Punk-ass cowards. Trigger-happy pigs. Death to them all.
others already said this but it’s so crazy that they’re called rubber bullets when they are like 40mm artillery rounds
“Rubber” bullets are steel bullets coated in rubber.
And can easily break bones or maim if used incorrectly.
Maybe not every single one of them will shoot an unarmed civilian, but all of them just stood by and did nothing.
Verdict: ACAB.
Nothing unusual…
… for a country like Belarus…
Well, she might have been an undercover reporter, what choice did they have?
Fuck 12.
Stories like this are why despise Biden and Obama so much. Both enthusiastically armed the police while pretending to support change and helped give them this sense of invincibility, and both had the power to make real change in policing but cared more about being reelected than doing the right thing.
Despite Obama’s “hope and change” promises the first time around, they were both status quo presidents who needed to ensure the dominance of the state above all else.
But don’t you wish we had status quo now? I could go for a little stability and respect with a side of human rights and investment in the future
a side of human rights
You mean like expanding the United States’ illegal drone assassination program?
That status quo comfort you’re yearning for is exactly what lead us here in the first place.
That stays quo was built on incredible amounts of violence inflicted on the global south, and now the imperial boomerang is coming back around.
So no, I don’t wish we had ‘a bit of that status quo’.
Bombs for peace ™.
Didn’t take long to tie actions under a Republican admin to Democrats. Par for the course.
That’s because these things do not happen in a vacuum, and if said Democratic presidents had made real reforms, the actions Trump is committing right now wouldn’t be possible.
Yep, and the “block everything” McConnell senate of Obama’s terms would have allowed that reform too. You could conceivably make that argument about Biden for 2 fucking years if not for Sinnema(sp?) and that chucklefuck from WV.
The Dems are feckless but the president can’t just decree shit. (well, unless you’re trump I guess)
McConnell made things difficult, sure, but Obama had a supermajority for eight months of his first term.
Biden had Manchin and Sinema, but he wasn’t without recourse. He could have targeted Manchin’s daughter for regulation or investigation, because her company price gouges for prescription drugs and kills people. Sinema could have been stripped of all of her committee assignments, which would have made bribing her worthless and impacted her financially as well as severely limiting her power as a swing vote.
But, at the end of the day, you pointed out the most critical thing. Presidents have power. They just need to be willing to wield it in order to create change. The reason you’re seeing Democrats participate in fascism and pretend to be powerless is that it serves their wealthy benefactors and they’re happy to take those $100k bribes, I mean, “speech” engagements.
FUCK LAPD , ITS TIME TO REVOLT
