The pig sees her, turns, aims, and shoots her almost point blank.
Have they identified the cop that commited this assault?
Of course not. They’re above the law.
If you mix ammonia and bleach, and pump balloons full of it, when the balloons pop it releases some bad fumes
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.
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.
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.
I mean yes but its not a ‘lost bullet’. he willingly fired on her, and at that distance he could clearly fucking see she has a microphone and is in front of a professional news camera.
You’re assuming he’s even literate.
The media in the US is not on the side of democracy.
It was an Australian reporter.
Oh they are much better, ever hear about some guy called Murdoch?
Murdoch was Australian, he chose to be American
Police with this behavior should be fired and prosecuted. Unacceptable.
fired and prosecuted
lol. you’re sweet. i was thinking of something that would make them fear us for a very long time.
They’ll get a two week vacation and maybe a promotion.
I think they’ll get a promotion for this one
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 not understanding that shit has gotten far worse.
Imagine believing there was unbiased reporting about protests before trump.
Liberal news journalists come in two flavors:
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We love the cops and we’re trying to figure out why everyone is so angry at them all the time. To answer this question, we asked the cops.
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Ever since <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.
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🌍 🧑🚀 🔫🐷
Not my face, the other brown people’s face!
What’s IDF for non Americans?
Otherwise, cops shooting at journalists is pretty worrisome.
Many US police departments have been training with the Israeli “Defense” Forces for years. They are bringing the tactics back home.
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?
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.
Zero justification, not a stray bullet etc, he literally aims and shoots at the camera, what in the fuck is going on over their?
Wait until you find out the entire history of usa…
A fascist take over of the government is what’s happening here. This is pretty on brand for that sort of event.
can’t have eyes on the situation. it goes away faster the less people see it
I know what you mean but it’s very counterproductive to shoot someone while they’re on air though. Seems like a pretty sure way to get more eyes than anything. Not that this pig is smart enough for that kind of critical thinking.
I was being facetious, cops have all the incentive to drive away cameras but I want them there. But yes, luckily this pig did it while already on camera like the dumb fuck he is
The US spent the last 24 years spreading freedom and democracy in the Middle East, it ended up running out of it at home
You mean the democracy and freedom they were spreading finally reached home.
That boomerang will break your jaw. Too bad nobody cared as long as the violence we inflicted never came home. It always does though.
I do care.
I’m sending ✨ thoughts and prayers ✨
I mean, let’s not use charged language like ‘almost point blank’ when it clearly isn’t… to attempt to make it more provocative than it already is.
This is already a blatantly obvious unwarranted attack on a reporter and the 1A. An attack on someone who isn’t even participating in the protests, just reporting. Who the officer clearly saw. This is assault (edit: or battery, depending on your legal definitions and the jurisdiction).
But, ‘almost point blank’…? That’s like 20-30 yards there.
20-30 yards
I think you’re confusing feet with yards. That’s like 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.
Re-read the center ‘paragraph’ of my earlier statement.
Also, I still believe a good argument can be made for it being close to 20 yards and that there’s still room to quibble on the left and right of ‘point blank’.
Edit: not that any of that matters
IIRC ‘point blank’ means no need to adjust for bullet drop due to gravity. This is well within that.
Honestly I assumed that it was a lot closer than that too, by that definition since I have a 50-200yd zero on my rifle, that’d mean anything out to 200yd is technically “point blank” which kinda seems like not how the phrase is usually used.
No, for you it would be anything within 50 that’s essentially an easy shot. No leading or anything like that.
At 200 yards the bullet has curved above the point of aim and fallen back down to your impact point.
I’ve rethought actually, and technically, since gravity starts to affect it the second it leaves the muzzle (trajectory is parabolic because your muzzle is aimed slightly up, not because bullets defy gravity), there is no point blank past the muzzle.
Okay bub
Don’t blame me, blame the dictionary that decided to define it by “affected by gravity” which honestly it still would be affected by gravity in the barrel even, since it’s on damn earth. I guess point blank only exists in space lol.
“Point-blank range is any distance over which a certain firearm or gun can hit a target without the need to elevate the barrel to compensate for bullet drop, i.e. the gun can be pointed horizontally at the target.[1][2]”
10 yards max
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.
The technical term comes from archery. In archery, the arrow rises when fired, so when shooting at very close targets, you actualy aim lower than the point you want to hit. At distant targets, of course, you aim higher, because the arrow will start to fall.
“Point Blank” is the distance at which you aim directly at the target. Last time I did any shooting, it was about 22 feet, with my bow and my arrows.
Neat! That makes sense. Appreciate the learning moment!
It actually comes from artillery, but it’s the same idea.
Cannons were tapered, so the bore would point slightly upwards compared to the line of sight on top of the cannon. So the projectiles trajectory would rise above and then fall below the line of sight.
Point blank range was the distance at which the projectile drops below that line when the cannon was aimed at zero elevation.
It actually comes from artillery, but it’s the same idea.
I question the accuracy of this statement. Archers existed long before black-powder artillery. At the same time, though, I don’t know if anyone would have been concerned with that measurement, way back when.
EDIT: Wikipedia suggests that the term did, in fact, originate with muzzle-loaded artillery. Good on you for correcting me.
RAW for Point Blank Shot in 5e has it within 5 feet
I’m sure that applies for some combination of bow, arrow, and archer. I’ll add it to the list of things 5e has done to irritate me.
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.
Somebody should mirror that video somewhere that isn’t a nazi platform.
I’m not sure if I would call it a “non-nazi platform”, but here’s Youtube
Wider video here. Genuinely not sure what the fuck he was thinking.
Thx for better video. Just in case this goes on catbox too:
Thinking? He’s a cop. He probably thought she wasn’t “in her place”, or was “disrespecting his authority”. Or he’s a psychopath…
I mean he clearly sees her all the way through the video. There’s no shouting or warning, or any sign he’s about to do that.
It’s like he’s got a quota of people to shoot. “Ooh, it’s 4pm, time to take somebody’s legs out with a baton round!”
You know shits getting real when the cops will shoot at a blonde white girl.
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.
As a European I don’t get how the police is just shooting rubber bullets instantly, why do they not have riot shields and water throwers and such, it seems so uncivilised.
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.
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.
Jokes aside, I hope she and Australia sue them into oblivion.
We won’t. Our government is still trying to pretend that everything is fine and normal in the US despite winning the recent election in a massive landslide based partially on anti-Trumpism sentiment. I’d love to see Albo prove me wrong but I’m not holding my breath.
Then the poor LA taxpayers foot the bill while Rubber Rambo keeps his job and gets a free vacation.
Taxpayers are footing the bill regardless. That should never be a deterrent for holding the bad guys responsible for their behavior.
Im pointing out that it doesn’t hold the bad guys accountable. They are above the law, the only accountability they will get is bleeding to death on the streets. Or even smarter, bleeding to death in their bedroom or the bar the frequent.
Look I’m just as jaded, exhausted, and sick of this tyrannical bullshit as you are, but at the same time we’ve got to start somewhere. And if we can maybe make things (financially) uncomfortable for the people in charge, then so be it.
A foreign news organization is more likely able to make things uncomfortable than you or me.
We’ve got to start somewhere. We’ve got to start, and never stop.
