Eyewitness News Reporter Sid Garcia spoke to the protester who was shot from his hospital bed at the L.A. General Medical Center.
I was thinking at first like, how lucky to be in a hospital bed already when being shot. 🧐
ICE will retaliate at a time, place, and manor of their choosing. /S
“Just one more peaceful protest bro. I swear bro”
We need a database of pigs and ICE.
Waiting for Pussolini to send the National Guard to city hall, to depose the mayor and council.
Imagine if you are a refugee and escaped from a war/tyrannical regime only to end up in the US and reading these type of things on the news…
Must be awkward… 👀
Pretty depressing to imagine escaping one despotic regime, through hell and high water, only to watch another rise and set its sights right on you.
The protester was among tens of thousands of people who took to the streets for the demonstrations across Southern California and the rest of the country.
Tens of thousands? There were over FIVE MILLION protesters.
E OVER THIRTEEN MILLION protesters - thank you, Lucidlethargy
Over 12 million
Over 12 million is also over 5 million, which is tens of thousands (over 1200 tens of thousands, technically)
I used to drink. I still do, but I used to too
Yeah the 5 Million seemed like the total number from just counting the big cities. If you actually include the thousands of small protest events all over the US, 12 Million makes a lot more sense
Estimates say there may be have been dozens or more protestors.
You shouldn’t have to wear safety rated glasses to protest, but I wouldn’t go to one without them at this point. If you normally wear glasses and they’re not rated an impact can shatter them and cause even more damage than not wearing them at all would have.
And kevilar vest. And jock. Maybe even a helmet.
But if course, that enables the narrative that you come dressed to fight or something stupid. What has happened to Western civilization…
chemistry stores in college sell those hard plastic glasses or goggles.
You’ll need z87+ (ANSI Z87.1) impact resistant safety glasses or goggles. If the chemistry store does not have these you can find them at any big box hardware store
They trying to make those rubber bullets letal.
Less lethal is just maiming? That doesn’t seem much fucking better.
You are supposed to aim centre mass with less lethal. Hitting the eye means you are incompetent (unlikely), or malicious (definitely).
I was at a protest in DTLA where they were firing them. Some cops were flinching when the rounds were fired. So I’m going with both incompetent and malicious.
I think that part of a cop’s competency is not being malicious. Or in other words, a malicious cop is also necessarily incompetent.
Rubber bullets are supposed to be fired at the ground and bounce up into targets…
Not all of them.
Hey, that’s an insult to trained shooters. They are clearly both.
Well it’s better than dead.
States need to pass ballot initiatives that make it completely legal to shoot any police officer with a rubber bullet whenever you feel like it. It should also be legal to pump tear gas into a police station whenever you want. Police are using these things against entirely peaceful protests. The only violent people are the police. Yet they’re allowed to just use these weapons against people with no consequence whatsoever. I say what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. If these weapons are that harmless that cops can just use them whenever, then we should be able to use them against cops whenever we feel like it as well. It should be entirely legal to shoot cops with rubber bullets. They should have to go everywhere in full body armor and face coverings. See a cop on the street? Shoot them with a rubber bullet. Officer pulls you over? Shoot them with a rubber bullet. Cop standing in line at a donut shop? Feel free to come up behind them and shoot them point blank in the back of the head with a rubber bullet.
If cops can use these weapon with such casual indifference, then they must be completely harmless. As such, there is no harm in allowing citizens to use rubber bullets and tear gas against officers at any time they choose. Anything that cops can do to random citizens random citizens should also be able to do to cops.
I’d vote for that ballot initiative
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I’m surprised they’re not using real bullets
