The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.
The pig sees her, turns, aims, and shoots her almost point blank.
Zero justification, not a stray bullet etc, he literally aims and shoots at the camera, what in the fuck is going on over their?
can't have eyes on the situation. it goes away faster the less people see it
A fascist take over of the government is what's happening here. This is pretty on brand for that sort of event.
Wait until you find out the entire history of usa...
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.
Paintballs can blind you
Yeah, but i can put on safety gear and accept getting shot with them as a part of a fun game. Unlike metal cored rounds.
Yes, they are "less-lethal" but there are still hundreds of cases where people have been killed or permanently disabled because of these.
LAPD shot a protester in the head with rubber bullets and refused to call an ambulance for her as she lay there bleeding and concussed; another protester was trampled and concussed by mounted police; countless other protestors were beat over the head savagely with batons... and this is only what was on video.
California should pass a ballot initiative making it legal for any random person to shoot police with less lethal munitions whenever they want. You should just be able to walk up to any cop, any time you want, and shoot them with a rubber bullet. If it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander.
Its only illegal if you get caught
It's one thing to constantly talk about standing up to tyranny and defending your precious freedoms, owning guns especially for that long awaited moment when they can be revolutionary heroes.
Looks like Americans talk the talk but don't walk the walk.
The Americans who spout off about things like standing up to tyranny and how much they love having guns are not the same people participating in this protest. The government is actively supporting those people.
The protesters are the ones expecting the rule of law to eventually win, but also know how important it is to protest so that the rule of law continues to exist. It may not be as violent as you’re expecting, but it seems to me that they are walking the walk.
We haven’t done this in a while and we're a little rusty, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t fighting.
same protester that got trampled and concussed was the one shot in the head.
NYpd and lapd are probably the most corrupt out there. LAPD has actual gang affiliations, some with white supremcesists.
If I recall correctly, the officer broke article 19 of the UDHR. I have a sneaking suspicion that that officer isn't getting any reprecussions for their actions.
Much more likely he'll get paid leave to deal with the "trauma" of the negative attention he'll get.
Did you see the new studies? It turns out lead solves trauma in cases like these
as long as his name isn't pulicized, he'll probably get off 100% clean. even if it is publicized, he's probably fine.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
I want to tell all the centrists who acted like leftists were radical, dangerous people for the last 30 years in the US while treating violent, rightwing conservative ideology as if it was innocent and defenseless... to personally eat shit you naive idiots, leftists were trying to warn you about this moment in the US for decades, fucking DECADES and y'all still chose to listen to fascists over learning some basic things about leftist ideology. Even after violent rightwing fascists attempted a literal coup on Jan 6 y'all still wanted to be afraid of leftists more than rightwing mobs actually assaulting the U.S. capitol.
Over the years I have wasted soo soo soooooo much breath talking to older boomer conservatives who believed themselves to be centrists or even democrats, and it was all a damn waste of time, these people have brainworms and admitting they have been living inside a bubble that popped late in their life interferes too much with their ego and sense of impending mortality (have I lived a life and learned worse than nothing about what the future will be????) for them to listen to kindness. Bypass these people and organize with people who understand, leave the naysayers I am criticizing behind and let them catch up once they realize how truly alone they are (with no younger people on their side from the conservative or leftist end of the spectrum).
spits on the authoritarian, rightwing dictatorship at my feet
Unfortunately there are quite a few young people on their side. We're going to have to address the amount of Gen Z support we saw for Trump in the last election.
it’s much wider than generations, it’s definitely race and gender mixed into this for sure. And just looking at the White House it’s spread across all generations being represented here.
If you’re zeroing in on gen z: Lots of white boys who believe they and they alone are facing oppression and were brainwashed into thinking trans, ‘brown people’ and women deserve no rights.
At least that’s how the influencer weight has been getting measured.
Ps: Joe rogan is total fucking scum who caused all this shit.i hope he rots in hell if hell were a real place.
Meh, it is concerning but it is concerning in the sense that liberals and centrists won't actually make an appeal to young people who are scared, all they will do is shame them for being lazy and sternly tell them their life is going to be MUCH harder than their parents so fall in line and get used to being screwed over and over and over again.
Conservatives appeal to young people with fascism, but that is not a new thing, it isn't a new thing for young people to be enticed by it either, what is new is the cynicism of older people towards younger people being terrified of their future. It is disgusting, it honestly makes me want to vomit my body has no other response to my "elders" spitting in the face of scared angry children who only see toxic strong men and empty talking heads as role models.
Blame someone else other then Gen Z, I am sorry but I didn't spend my whole life listening to boomers say "but what about McGovern! Fall in line stop complaining trust me I am older than you and have earned my cynicism, you will never win young people never vote" to then have the narrative instantaneously switch to "Gen Z has abandoned us for conservatives and are voting now why are the kids evil!?!?!".
I have been using the word "pathetic" a lot lately, but I will use it again here because nowhere else fits the usage of the word better, stop being pathetic and stand up for kids instead of concern trolling about what is going through their heads as they watch the world fall apart around them while all the kind adults are mostly in utter denial about it and are useless as guiding figures.
They are getting young women and girls with the TERF stuff/4B insanity. No one is paying attention to this.
Look, you don't understand. Biden didn't use all the leverage he could with Israel, and was old. Democrats tried to give everyone healthcare... So obviously, "Both sides are exactly the same!" /s
Biden used zero leverage with Israel to the point that Israeli figures would openly brag about the US letting them do whatever they want.
They aren't the same, at all, one is the bad cop and the other plays good cop.
A good time to remind everybody that while rubber bullets are considered "non-lethal," they can kill.
Back in 2004 a college student in Boston died from a bullet that missed its intended target, hit the ground and ricocheted into her eye.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Victoria_Snelgrove
So, while the shot certainly wasn't warranted, IMO its worse because of what could have happened because this officer was taking a shot for fun.
Even if less-lethal ammunition were risk free, that should still be a crime. Even in the ideal risk-free case, how is this any different from assault, if the cop came up behind a reporter swinging his baton. There was clearly no justifiable reason, it was clearly assault for fun or intimidation, and any reasonable person would know that.
"non-lethal" Oh, boy! What an infuriating misnomer that is.
This is also a good time to remember nothing here in this context is "non-lethal". All of these things (sand bags, tear gas, tasers, pepper spray, mace, rubber bullets, batons, shields, tactical holds, etc.) are accurately called "less lethal" because all of them can and will kill under certain circumstances, even when used by trained officers with good intentions. (I know. How often does that happen, right?) It doesn't take much to cross that line between "not intending murder" and "actual fucking murder", often something as simple as a common medical condition or simply falling while moving over hard ground like curbs and sidewalks. If a reporter is using the term "non-lethal" in the context of police brutality, that's a pretty good sign that you are being lied to.
Almost all " non-lethal" munitions are really "less lethal" and capable of killing someone if they get hit in the wrong area. They also easily maim. I saw a pellet from what are called "donkey balls" which are essentially clay-more mines filled with little rubber pellets bounce off a wall fast enough to go through someone's cheek and exit out the other side of his mouth. TLDR You can really fuck someone up with that stuff. Cops think they are like nerf toys.
Those are the things the Jackass guys got shot with in the first movie. The company called it a “Stingmore” mine.
Way too many people are comfortable with utilizing anything referred to as a “mine” against unarmed civilians.
That and the fact it’s directly attacking your civil rights to free speech and an unprovoked attack. So it’s definitely unconstitutional.
There's a distance at which they stop being "less-lethal". At 10 meters/30 feet they're considered extremely dangerous. The "effective range" at which they're generally considered less likely to penetrate is 20 to 30 meters (65 to 100 feet).
Lenses make estimating distance tricky, but based on the lines in the road, I don't think she's 20 meters away from that cop.
These journalists need body armor and helmets if they're going to be that close to American Police. Back in 2011 an Iraq War vet named Scott Olsen was head shot at a distance of a few feet fracturing his skull and when some protestors tried to rescue him they flashbanged the rescue effort. It's extremely unsafe to be that close to these guys.
This wasn't a "stray round." That shot was deliberate and that pig knew exactly what he was aiming at.
The dude literally waited until he was on camera to take the shot. Not only did he know exactly what he was aiming at, he wanted to be seen doing it.
I'm so glad that it was completely caught on camera so there's no wriggling out of it. It was deliberate at close range.
US officials have some answering to do to us.
Though, we all know we won't get shit, as their vassals.
Maybe we'll do some more war crimes on their behalf, you know, as a treat. Then lock up the whistleblower 👍👍👍
People killed by the german police in 2024 (record year): 22 People killed by the police in the united states in 2022: 1176 Well i guess we only have 1/4 of the population so 50 times the number of deaths is normal is to be expected.
Based on my American public school education, math checks out!
roughly 13 times the german record if you adjust for population. still fucked.
Somebody should mirror that video somewhere that isn't a nazi platform.
Wider video here. Genuinely not sure what the fuck he was thinking.
I’m not sure if I would call it a “non-nazi platform”, but here’s Youtube
I think the provocation was her reporting facts. Can't have that when most voters have chosen Trump.
Imagine believing there was unbiased reporting about protests before trump. This has been going on since the founding enslavers...
Imagine believing there was unbiased reporting about protests before trump.
Liberal news journalists come in two flavors:
<Insert Republican>
has taken power, the police have been ordered to do things that some people are saying is bad. But is it for our own benefit? To answer this question, we interviewed a member of the<Insert Republican>
administration who supports it and a cop who is feeling anxiety over following these orders.imagine not understanding that shit has gotten far worse.
There’s zip about this in the Australian TV news this morning. One of their own and they still don’t have the balls.
Channel 9 reported it as her being "caught in the crossfire", as if she got hit in a gun battle between protesters and cops or something
Sure, that's why the goddamn prime minister is now weighing in. Because it's so hidden.
I’m a Canadian and I seem to be more furious about this than many Australians.
A lot of Australian news corps are are owned by Rupert Murdoch. I feel this explains enough.
When they shoot us we need to shoot back
I thought self-defence was legal in the US
found the pig
People on the side of the cops will learn soon they are on the wrong side of polite society, and the wrong side of history.
self defense isn't violence mate
that's definitionally not inciting
What does boot taste like?
go fuck yourself
Wow, what a little bitch...
Go back to fucking reddit and eat boot leather
Imagine if you were the security guard at literally anywhere and did this. Not only would you be fired. You would likely not work security ever again. Also, you'd face criminal charges. I get cops have more responsibility than a security guard at the mall. But the video evidence shows us a clear psychopath that wouldn't qualify for a security guard position. Will there be punishment? Maybe an investigation? Not really. American police are not police any more. They're the SS. And they will shoot kids dead for looking in the wrong direction. We are far beyond the point of no return.
Private security here! Spent eight years as a guard before moving up to corporate level.
I think about this daily. How an armed guard could get not only fired, but potentially blacklisted from the entire industry (at least locally) for pulling their gun at the “wrong” time. If I were on duty and shot a journalist with a rubber bullet on fucking TV….its just inconceivable. If I were a manager and got a call that one of my guards did this, I can’t even imagine, I’d have to Japanese-train-conductor myself live on the 5pm news after reading a 20 page apology. There aren’t responses strong enough in my repertoire for something like that.
Cops just do it and saunter on to their next abomination.
Like it or not, private security have ten times the liability, accountability, damn near any metric you wanna use, that police do. We get fired (or removed from contracts at client request) for tiny shit daily. A guard being caught burping by a dickish client manager could lose a contract worth millions and dozens of people their jobs.
There are enough bad apples in our industry that I can’t really argue against the leeriness, ridicule, etc, from the public. I get it; there are a lot of IRL Paul Blarts out there. It means the industry needs to raise standards…meh, I’m getting off topic here.
You’re entirely correct, and I’m glad to see this pointed out. Police get away with shit that would get any guard super-extra-mecha fired, whether it’s a highly trained armed guard working a federal contract or an unarmed kid making $9 an hour to sit in an empty parking lot.
From both sides of the fence, this is not how this should be working.
the difference is police, are enabled the govt to do this. and the police union, really a gang can strongarm a city by refusing to do thier job.
as a side bonus, it preferentially chooses conservatives and social rejects as a hiring preference.
What's IDF for non Americans?
Otherwise, cops shooting at journalists is pretty worrisome.
What’s IDF for non Americans?
The Israeli army
The Israeli genocide force.
But that part of the image was a joke
Not a joke.
Critics of Israel’s military assaults on the Gaza Strip and its crackdown in the occupied West Bank point out that the LAPD has sent personnel to study and train with Israeli security forces accused of state-sanctioned violence against civilians in the two Palestinian territories.
The Police Department’s ongoing relationship with Israeli forces — based on what officials have said is a shared goal of fighting extremism inside their borders — has come under scrutiny before, along with other international training efforts. The agency’s dealings with Israeli forces date back to at least the early 1980s, but ramped up after the 9/11 attacks as the LAPD sought to boost its counter-terrorism training.
In 2002, the Washington advocacy group Jewish Institute for National Security of America sponsored an LAPD delegation’s weeklong trip to Israel, during which department officials visited police and military outposts and studied Israel’s border patrol operations in the Galilee region and the occupied West Bank. Around the same time, the department began sending bomb squad technicians to learn from their counterparts in Israel; at least one trip was paid for by an $18,000 donation from the Los Angeles Police Foundation, a nonprofit independent fundraising group.
In the years since, high-ranking officials from L.A. and Israel have routinely traded delegations. But critics say that in light of the polarizing conflict in Gaza, the LAPD’s ongoing ties to Israeli forces threaten the department’s image of impartiality.
Was it?
Many US police departments have been training with the Israeli “Defense” Forces for years. They are bringing the tactics back home.
Police with this behavior should be fired and prosecuted. Unacceptable.
I think they'll get a promotion for this one
They'll get a two week vacation and maybe a promotion.
fired and prosecuted
lol. you're sweet. i was thinking of something that would make them fear us for a very long time.
C'mon, the camera was coming straight for him!
the cop probably mistook that acorn camera for a rocket launcher that you carry on your shoulders. they had legitimate reason to feel threatened.
LAPD has right to defend themselves. she is lucky it was a rubber bullet.
IDF would have shot her in the head then bombed her house and kids school (with them in it).
well maybe in a few years, israel certainly are facing no consequences for a live streamed genocide. the same ultra rich scum are funding both, so they will certainly implement it here after successful trials abroad.
And a British one, too.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/los-angeles-protest-photographer-surgery/
Okay but also, fuck LBC, they're a rightwing (and Zionist) mouthpiece
Oh so it's ok to selectively shoot journalists if you don't agree with their ideology? I bet the other cop didn't agree with that journalist's. Case closed, following your logic.
Sadden how much obrian dropped talking about it once they canned sangrita
are they? all i know about LBC is what I've seen of James O'Brien and he seemed to be none of that. is he like a token liberal/socdem or something?
Your link also includes the full video of the Australian getting shot too. You should point that out as I'm sure others would like to see it.
Surely that guy will now be fired and charged with assault? This was completely unwarranted.
Best I can do is 3 day suspension with pay, and it'll be cleared from his record next year.
Bullet proof west with PRESS on it and a helmet/glasses. Trump made a war zone so it should be treated as a war zone.
While I detest violence in all forms, and respect peaceful protest and the power of the ballot box; it seems like the current administration is doing everything it can to disenfranchise the voters of this country, and preemptively using violence against peaceful protesters. I hope things don’t tip too far, because while Americans don’t riot like the French at the drop of a hat, there is an enormous amount of anger simmering among the working class people in this country, and I’d hate to see that erupt. If it does come to a head it will make the Paris riots like a sunny day on Lake Geneva.
i hate how vague the term violence is, as it can mean so much as to make it useless.
protesting is a form of violence, it is meant to hurt the status quo. if the protests blocks a road or impedes trade and therefore there's some economical violence in there too.
but there's also violence in an unfair system that creates those protests. people are protesting ICE kidnapping and disappearing people with support of the state. that is a much worse violence than that being used in the protest.
and the "violent" police response, was violent, because he literally shot a reporter.
because the term is so vague, anti violence as a moral stance is meaningless.
Americans are packing more heat than the French. We won't ever organize to shut down the country, but there will be more executions and attempted murders like the United Health CEO.
As people fall into despair most will rot away silently, but a minority will decide to take somebody with them.
How about we organize instead? Make it a goal to go to the protest this weekend, meet one person whose sign you like, get their contact details and agree to meet up at the next protest. It’s that easy to get the ball rolling.
america may have tons of guns, but when what's probably the majority of them are owned by people who seemingly approve of what's happening, will there ever be the necessary large scale resistance?
and mostly targeting blue counties too.
2nd time Trump's bullshit lead to an Australian reporter getting assaulted on air.
Police departments in the US train with the IDF and then bring their tactics back to the US
Which is one of the main reasons I pointed to when people would shout me down for sounding the alarm about the Palestinian Genocide "because it was an irrelevant to US politics". The Palestinian Genocide is just a preview of our future, the signs are clear as day, our police trained HEAVILY with the IDF which is not really a functional military more like a police state apparatus.
The IDF has no idea how to do an armored maneuver against a near-peer enemy that also has armor, AA and artillery, it only knows how to enclose people in literal and surveillance prisons and push "soldiers" to acclimate to killing innocent civilians.
Not a war, a GENOCIDE.
And the training hours for cops there is shockingly short compared to other counties
I think Trump dreams of a civil war. That will be the perfect excuse to hurry the slow dictatorship takeover.
That is slowly happening anyway, while people are still having wet dreams of democracy.
I think Trump dreams of a civil war
then let's have one. let's make it go sideways for him. we can't back down from aggression. that's living in fear. i want to see this end in a way that sends a dire warning for all future fascists, sociopaths, and idiots.
That police officer is POS and knew exactly where he was aiming.
That police officer is POS
they all are
ACAB, notice how none of the officers next to this asshat did anything. They're all bastards.
PIGS.
We will have no video evidence of our obvious fascism, thank you!
If DFAT still don't update their travel advice after this...
Nah mate it's fine. Everything is totally cool and normal in the US, mate. The US is still a totally reliable ally and we're definitely going to get those submarines that we're paying billions for with no guarantees that we'll actually get any. Nothing to worry about, mate.
Not to mention those fancy jet fighters that burn up on the runway and can't fly in thunderstorms. Playing the long, long waiting game on those.
Fuck 12
It's fine, I'm sure the "Justice" Department will make this right.
Even if the shot were accidental -> still not acceptable.
Shitty piggy.
The fuck is boring about someone being shot?
Shooting (and killing) journalists is an everyday occurence in Israel.
I have to admit, I didn't understand the boring part of the community (or sub back on reddit for that matter) name until reading this comment.
SOAD's "Deer Dance" plays in my head a little too often these days.
My favorite thing about SOAD is they opposed police brutality AND Tankies.
Have they identified the cop that commited this assault?
Of course not. They're above the law.
no valid video. Do I have something configured wrong?
Didn’t work for me either. Another commenter’s mirror worked for me, but if that doesn’t work either here’s a YouTube one.
Mine does that too, click the title link and it will open in a new window/tab with the video.
🌍 🧑🚀 🔫🐷
Only a matter of time before someone shoots back.
If you mix ammonia and bleach, and pump balloons full of it, when the balloons pop it releases some bad fumes
Not my face, the other brown people's face!
This will not be covered by the MSM.
Imagine if a cop was rubber bulleted tho. It would be even more endless copaganda...
What dat fascist culture do.
This will not be covered by the MSM.
Coverage seems pretty okay so far
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/09/us/video/nine-news-reporter-la-hit-rubber-bullet-digvid
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c98p008kxn1o
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5340014-australian-reporter-hit-rubber-bullets-protests/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/us/la-protests-reporter-shot-lauren-tomasi.html
Yeah, not even the captured media is going to sit on one of their own being shot.
But my arguments sound so good when I get to make things up...
Nice meme.
Point Blank: The distance between a gun and a target such that it requires minimal effort in aiming it. In particular no allowance needs to be made for effects of gravity, target movement or wind in aiming the projectile.
You are correct, it wasn't "almost point blank", because it is absolutely point blank.
Judging by their relative sizes in the screengrab and with some quick back-of-the-envelope math, the cop shot her from about 5 meters away. That's pretty fucking close to point blank, no?
Not close, it is point blank.
IIRC 'point blank' means no need to adjust for bullet drop due to gravity. This is well within that.
I'm curious to know what you think "point blank" means.
I'll admit that before reading this comment thread I probably would have said that point blank is so close you could basically reach out and touch, or nearly touch, the target.
I do hope, however, that I would look it up before contesting how it was used.
RAW for Point Blank Shot in 5e has it within 5 feet
20-30 yards
I think you're confusing feet with yards. That's like 10 yards max
10 yards max
"20-30 yards"!? I'm assuming you're in the US as well, so you should know yards better than that. But I'm not going to quibble over exact distance. He shot a reporter! Not in the midst of defending himself. He was standing, then raised his rifle, aimed, and deliberately fired on an uninvolved member of the media obviously covering the situation with a microphone. THAT'S the issue.
You know shits getting real when the cops will shoot at a blonde white girl.
It’s called flirting. Or maybe he asked her out and she rejected him. It really could go both ways.
She certainly didn't dodge a bullet with him.
I was watching Hasan being at the protests to get a sense of what is actually going on and a European left a comment on his video that succinctly put the US police into perspective.
And that pretty much sums up the cops in the US. They're just uncivilized. Their idea of "deescalation" is escalation until you're too incapacitated to fight back.