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ininewcrow 208 points a year ago

I'll keep repeating this because I think it's important

Wear safety glasses

Not sunglasses, or shades or prescription glasses

Wear actual industrial rated workers safety glasses.

If you get those shots in your face, you're going to lose an eye or both eyes. Safety glasses are designed for this kind of stuff and they actually work. It will stop those projectiles from damaging your eyes.

Cops all over the world are known to purposefully shoot people's faces and heads. After the fact they will just argue that it didn't happen, it was accidental, it was chaotic, it was dangerous, etc, etc .... it won't matter after the fact if you lose an eye or end up completely blind.

Wear safety glasses, they're easy to find and easy to use.

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ramenshaman 25 points a year ago

Bringing my prescription safety glasses with me on the 14th

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entwine413 14 points a year ago

Don't waste the money. Get ones that'll work over your glasses, and preferably pick up some $10 Zenni glasses.

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ramenshaman 19 points a year ago

My work paid for them :)

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Auli 4 points a year ago

Never going back prescription safety glasses are so much better.

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tburkhol 20 points a year ago

Even better: safety goggles that seal around the eyes or face to reduce chemical exposure as well as projectile. Not the shitty safety goggles you got in high school chemistry, but things that actually fit & conform to your face.

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Auli 8 points a year ago

Safety glasses are not designed to take a rubber bullet. I don't know how well it would actually protect you.

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WhiteHotaru 9 points a year ago

Look at some wood turning or grinding videos. They are able to stop a peace of a angle grinder disk. They can take the force of a rubber bullet.

Edit: see this video. Wood exploded while turning and is stopped by face shield. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJhI_QweQ0M

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ininewcrow 6 points a year ago

If rubber bullets are going through your safety glasses than they are using lethal rounds that can punch through and into your skin and organs. At that point they aren't using non lethal rubber bullets or pellets, they're firing regular shotgun rounds at you that can kill you let alone endanger your eyes.

If a bullet or projectile can punch through safety glasses .... it can go through your skull.

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And009 7 points a year ago

Good to know, hope to not need it.

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lemmydividebyzero 6 points a year ago

Wow, tips formerly shared with each other in Belarus (e.g. this one or how to avoid to get dragged into a random van by a pseudo police) are now also valid in the USA...

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jagged_circle 1 point a year ago

Safety glasses are bullet proof?

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tocopherol 11 points a year ago

They will block the pepperballs, rubber bullets might break them but most could withstand the hit better than your eyeball. It would lessen the injury from any projectiles they're currently using, not actual bullets.

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ininewcrow 2 points a year ago

Non lethal rounds means that whatever they're shooting will hurt you but won't kill you. So the projectile is moving slow enough that safety glasses would actually protect your eyes.

If they are shooting anything stronger then they are using lethal rounds that could go through your skull and no safety glasses can protect you from that.

The thing here is to protect your eyes ... they don't care if they blind you, to them they can say that they didn't kill you. But I really don't want to see any young person lose an eye to any of this stupidity.

Wear safety glasses ..... if you save your eyes, you can go out there and join movements longer and more often. If you lose an eye or go completely blind, you will wonder about everything you did.

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witten 6 points a year ago

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ininewcrow 3 points a year ago

I agree ... but I think law enforcement use the term 'non-lethal' as a bit of public relations and legal wording to make themselves look good.

To me ... both 'non-lethal' and 'less-lethal' mean that they are less likely to kill you ... but still have a good risk of killing you if they hit in the right place. But either terminology also means that if the projectile is small enough and fast enough ... it would be fast enough to destroy your eye and blind you.

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BlueEther 179 points a year ago

You can see the cunt target her (or the camera operator) while she is talking to camera - big brave boy

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illegible 46 points a year ago

I hope his neighbors know.

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PattyMcB 25 points a year ago

But the protesters won't be allowed to wear masks... wtf?!

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BlueEther 12 points a year ago

I'm sure that they do, and approve.

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jballs 9 points a year ago

Wow I didn't notice that at first. On the second watch, it's creepy as fuck. It's not some random shot that accidentally hits her. The cop just looks at her, calmly raises his gun and shoots her.

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Embargo 169 points a year ago

9news are framing this as "caught in the crossfire of violent protests". Last time I checked, the police weren't protesting. I fucking despise this world sometimes.

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entwine413 212 points a year ago

The cop turned around, sighted her in, and pulled the trigger. He had ample opportunity to see her microphone or the camera she was talking to.

This was 1000% an intentional assault on the media.

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P1nkman 46 points a year ago

But he really wanted to shoot someone, and is a cop. He probably got a promotion for keeping the peace.

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TrippaSnippa 5 points a year ago

9News is right leaning and has always sanewashed everything to do with Trump, along with the rest of the Australian mainstream media (which is all right wing, even the supposedly lefty ABC).

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And009 -83 points a year ago

He was clearly shooting anyone in sight. This person had been facing the other way, no aggression.

Quit your crocodile defense.

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Bakkoda 36 points a year ago

Found the boot licker

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mhague 5 points a year ago

You guys are so illiterate. One guy says cops suck. Another guy says "no, fuck you, cops suck." And you just go off vibes. No ability to parse English. "Well he's aggressively replying to someone hating cops, he must love them."

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CaptSneeze 6 points a year ago

I’m glad you posted this. I was thinking “why are these people agreeing with each other so combatively?”

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Lootboblin 3 points a year ago

aka a redditor.

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raltoid 18 points a year ago

Have you actually come to enjoy the taste of rubber and leather?

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tocopherol 10 points a year ago

Fuck off, fuck the cops and fuck their nazi sympathizing defenders.

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CalipherJones 6 points a year ago

That'd be even worse retard

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LePoisson 3 points a year ago

I think you're missing the /s tag here.

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ramenbelly 1 point a year ago

Oh yea , CLEARLY

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hperrin 91 points a year ago

Fascism in America

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StupidBrotherInLaw 65 points a year ago

They're taking pointers from the Israelis.

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D_C 48 points a year ago

"Those rioters were advancing in a menacing fashion. The police were fearing for their lif..."

"Sir. It was one person."

"The rioter was advancing in a menacin..."

"It wasn't a rioter. It was a reporter."

"The reporters were advancing in a menacing fashio..."

"It was just one. A singular woman reporter. Who was talking to a camera."

"So there were at least two of them? Reporter and camera person"

"...yeah. I guess."

"Those rioters were advancing in a menacing fashion, possibly armed with RPG's and dirty nuclear bombs. The police were fearing for their life and reacted as they were trained and shot her in the back. We have investigated and found that they did nothing wrong."

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Boddhisatva 65 points a year ago

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Breezy 60 points a year ago

This dude...

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But_my_mom_says_im_cool 24 points a year ago

Someone knows exactly who that pig is, they should gut the whole department till he’s identified

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Rekorse 16 points a year ago

They're coming right for us!

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DarkSurferZA 1 point a year ago

Dude, no. piece of shit, oh yes

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propitiouspanda 17 points a year ago

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Spezi 16 points a year ago

If you look at the overlay, it was the channel themselves, as they probably posted it on social media. So it‘s not really unnecessarily cropped if they themselves serve different channels with different aspect ratios.

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barnaclebutt 54 points a year ago

Hey, hey, everyone calm down. I'm sure he'll be appropriately reprimanded with paid leave and possibly given a raise for very obviously shooting a reporter on purpose. Poor guy. The injuries alone that he'll receive for high fives and heil Hitler's back at the precinct could throw out his shoulder.

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wanderwisley 53 points a year ago

Hey America are we great yet?

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goferking0 26 points a year ago

Republicans are salivating at the thought of being able to shoot minorities and women. So in their mind yes 😭

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CharlesDarwin 9 points a year ago

Exactly. This is a wet dream of far too many wingnut jagoffs. They'll mutter some bullshit about needing to burn it all down, cull the herd, and other very stupid things. Naturally, they think they will come out ahead as a result because of superior genetics or some such shit.

Also a lot of prepper dumbasses think their little pop guns will help them in some kind of major civil war/apocalypse, etc...

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Empricorn 5 points a year ago

And the people who report openly and honestly what they are doing. In this case it was a toofer...

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CharlesDarwin 4 points a year ago

AKA, the "fake news".

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Tiger666 8 points a year ago

No, it will get greater yet!

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whyalone 48 points a year ago

That cop did it intentionally, he wants to be promoted to the big guys, idf.

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Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 17 points a year ago

He waited until he was in frame.

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EatMyPixelDust 46 points a year ago

100% that cop is a misogynistic pig

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But_my_mom_says_im_cool 40 points a year ago

How is this not an international incident?

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Gates9 38 points a year ago

Israel normalized violence against the press in the ultimate way

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But_my_mom_says_im_cool 0 points a year ago

This is California, you seem confused

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brendansimms 6 points a year ago

US police forces (including from Cali) sometimes get additional 'training' in israel. SOURCE: Times of Israel

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PattyMcB 23 points a year ago

I knew it... ACAB

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jagged_circle 19 points a year ago

Was it a rubber bullet or a rubber coated steel bullet?

Because if its the latter, we should charge for attempted murder. Those are lethal bullets.

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Empricorn 22 points a year ago

Rubber bullets are "less than lethal" ammunition. They can still seriously injure, permanently maim, and even kill. Cops have been known to target eyes and other vulnerable points to increase damage. If that sadism doesn't horrify and disgust you, you're not paying attention. So yeah, this should be prosecuted as a blatant, potentially deadly attack on a reporter...

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iAvicenna 10 points a year ago

That idiot thinks he is playing fucking paintball but rubber bullets can permanently injure people including causing blindness or head trauma.

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Lime66 8 points a year ago

Abolish the Frozen Water Gestapo, and fuck the police

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SoftestSapphic 7 points a year ago

This is why armed protests are effective.

Police don't shoot at armed people nearly as often.

Because the people, equipped with the tools to defend themselves, might decide to defend themselves

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whereisk 6 points a year ago

Don’t worry everyone, this is just their love language.

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xyro 5 points a year ago

This is the USA 🤦

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RememberTheApollo_ 4 points a year ago

Rubber coated metal.

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2xar 4 points a year ago

Land of the free, ladies and gentleman.

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jordanlund 1 point a year ago

Video links are not allowed.

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Pnut -2 points a year ago

Can we all just let America eat itself? Like, give it a few years to turn into fallout and then we can actually go in and fix it when the baddies eat each other? /S

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bieren -84 points a year ago

Every fucking jerk off there had a camera and claims to be press. Yet I’m sure some under paid, over worked cop dealing with a bunch of idiots knows every reporter and news agency on the planet.

Fucked up, yes. But how the fuck is the cop supposed to be know who is who.

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pneumatron 37 points a year ago

Watch the video again and ask yourself, was he in danger or just being a tyrannical pig?

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But_my_mom_says_im_cool 14 points a year ago

Underpaid and overworked cops?? LOL! 40% of my city budget goes to police. Over 50% of the police force makes over $100,000 a year. The other 50% are close to it. They sit on their ass and look at everyone with disdain, that’s overwork. When I had a car stolen and I gave them hd footage of the theft, suspects, everything. They couldn’t even be bothered to pretend to care.

Anyways who the fuck do you think you’re kidding with this “underpaid cops” bullshit.

Disgusting, servile boot locker.

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jagged_circle 11 points a year ago

I dont know which country you're from, but in the US, everyone with a camera legally is press

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lemmydividebyzero 10 points a year ago

Why is the cop standing there in your opinion? To shoot everyone except the press?

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LifeInMultipleChoice 10 points a year ago

Look, the cop was just standing there assaulting people with a deadly weapon when this monster slowly stood there in the street talking into a camera. The sun was in his eyes and he could hardly register if she was a black trans person, the best course of action following his training was to try to remotely tap that ass without consent so he might be able to get a better view of her face. Besides she was Australian which basically means she's a terrorist viololently invading our precious countryside. Long hair, that's pretty much a mask for the back of your head, and masks are banned from protests, an admission of guilty one might say. Besides, any respectable woman would have been at home in the kitchen providing for her man. Harlots everywhere

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Zombiepirate 5 points a year ago

Fucked up, yes. But how the fuck is the cop supposed to be know who is who.

You realize that makes it worse, right? How the cop is shooting at someone who he has not identified as a threat?

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LucidNightmare 1 point a year ago

The banned Redditors are coming…

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