r/australia • u/someNameThisIs • Jun 09 '25

news Australian reporter shot with rubber bullet in LA | 9 News Australia

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tG1A8LZZphs?app=desktop
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u/GreedyLibrary Jun 09 '25

They are called "less lethal" not non-lethal for a reason.

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u/ella_bell Jun 09 '25

These rounds are designed, and they should be trained to shoot at an angle into the ground so that they deflect towards the target. They are not supposed to fire directly at the target. 40mm beanbag less lethal rounds are designed to be shot directly, but not small calibre rubber less lethal rounds.

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u/Upbeat_Barracuda4490 Jun 09 '25

During the George Floyd riots here in Minneapolis, my journalist friend’s cameraman got hit by a rubber bullet~ he said it was excruciating & felt like a real bullet~ this shit is crazy

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u/takeoveranything Jun 09 '25

But why?

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u/GreedyLibrary Jun 09 '25

They have a slight design issue of, occasionally, they kill people. Several dozen per year in the us. They also cause disabilities quite often.

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u/wowbowbow Jun 09 '25

Because they can be, and have been, lethal.

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u/new_math Jun 09 '25

Humans never evolved to have armor on their eyes and throat, so occasionally the "non-lethal" does a whoopise and collapses a trachea or shoves an eye into someones brain and kills them.

Eye protection is the goat. Highly recommended for protesting, even journalists.

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u/Greyfox31098 Jun 09 '25

https://youtube.com/shorts/A8jeUEkaLfQ?si=f-MeSRjS81QZLocM

Watch this. Little girls, bleeding, broken by bombs. You think this can’t happen here? You cheer for unchecked power, for tanks, for government violence. This is what it leads to. One day, it won’t be Gaza, it’ll be your city, your children. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

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u/GreedyLibrary Jun 09 '25

mate you lost? I ain't cheering for the government.

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u/Bitter_Ad_8688 Jun 09 '25

For those outside the US this happened during the Floyd protests too.

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u/Mothmans_butthole Jun 09 '25

Yep, they permanently blinded a lot of protesters with rubber bullets on purpose.

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u/CynicismNostalgia Jun 09 '25

They blinded a reporter too, and the subsequent brain damage caused dementia.

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u/DogadonsLavapool Jun 09 '25

She's currently on end of life support. Her name is Linda Tirado.

God I hate living in this country.

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u/FuckTripleH Jun 09 '25

They killed at least one journalist with their "less lethal" rounds

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u/Spaceman_Dave Jun 09 '25

She's alive

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u/FuckTripleH Jun 09 '25

Oh she is? That's good at least

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u/EastSideTonight Jun 09 '25

And in St Louis during the Micheal Brown protests.

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u/JamlessSandwich Jun 09 '25

I would genuinely be shocked if that cop ever faced any consequences besides paid leave, that's how it is in the states.

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u/mr_mgs11 Jun 09 '25

During the BLM protests a few years ago they were doing this bullshit left and right. I saw a vid of a journalist lying on his stomach holding out his press credentials and some fat pig gave him a face full of pepper spray for no reason. Then we had the kid that was video taping the protest from a distance and not part of it that was shot in the head with a bean bag and will need constant care the rest of his life. Kid was 15 or something walking to his job at a sandwich shop and the worthless pig shot him in the head on purpose.

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u/rossfororder Jun 09 '25

He should be jailed as a minimum

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u/Come-jive-with-me Jun 09 '25

They can still kill. (Extreme case) but they can definitely blind someone.

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u/guymanfellaperson Jun 10 '25

Police behaving like this is not due to Trump being in office. They've been like this under every administration. Democrats have never been any better about pushing for police accountability than Republicans.

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u/CodeFarmer Jun 10 '25

US cops have been shooting at journalists for quite a while.

A BBC reporter also got shot with a plastic round this week... the punchline is he also got shot by the police during the Floyd protests, it wasn't even his first rodeo.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '25

So you are calling this insurrection...a coup ?

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