The pig sees her, turns, aims, and shoots her almost point blank.
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.
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
Especially since you can see the cop in question pointing his weapon directly at her and her news crew.
Generally, that’s the direction guns fire ;)
The part I find damning is that if you watch more of the video, that cop was absolutely watching her for a long time, and knew FOR SURE she was there and was press.
Besides just being a psycho pig or something similarly fucked up, the only reason I think that he could have done that is there was a car turning onto the road where she was and he wanted her to gtfo of the road. But even then, that’s fucked up.
Mainstream media is complicit with Trump’s fascism. Which is to be expected with capitalists.
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Sure, that’s why the goddamn prime minister is now weighing in. Because it’s so hidden.
A lot of Australian news corps are are owned by Rupert Murdoch. I feel this explains enough.
The oligarchies are working together.
I’m a Canadian and I seem to be more furious about this than many Australians.
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
Besides the point.
And it was for legal reasons anyway
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.
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.
C’mon, the camera was coming straight for him!
the cop probably mistook that
acorncamera 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.
dude, this is a weirdly over the top response.
Is it? That’s exactly the kind of rhetoric used to defend Israel, and bombing schools with kids in them is exactly what they do. American police train with the IDF. That kind of brutality we (ETA: as in “the U.S.” broadly) support abroad comes home eventually.
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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.
A large part of that working class is fully captive to the corporate media narratives, and voted for Trump last November. They support this.
They less support this, than the lies they were fed. His disapproval polling is clear on that
And yet, zero self-awareness to try to connect the actions to the outcome. If those same lies were fed to them in the exact same way, they will continue to do the same stupid thing.
If they’re too busy worrying about where the next meal is coming from, can you blame them? I mean you can but surely that removes some of the blame
It does not. They are poor as shit because of who they vote for. Full stop.
Not really, the kind of people you’re talking about have been poor for at least a generation
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.
Protest would be more effective to effect change, and I will be doing my part in my city.
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?
For what I and probably you want to happen? Almost certainly not.
For something to happen? I figure yes. I will be doing what I can to shape the future with peaceful protest.
I mean guns guns guns people talk about but IEDs won Iraq and can be made IN A CAVE WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS
Yes, if Americans rise up, I think it’ll look a lot more like The Troubles than the first American Civil War. For one, because there aren’t clear, geographical divisions this time, and indeed, I would guess that guerilla tactics are going to be more effective than guns against a military with overwhelming conventional warfare capabilities.
Absolutely. The US military was tiny at the outbreak of the civil war, and a whole lot of the veterans of the Mexican American war were fighting for the South.
If violence escalates, and I think it might, it will look much more like the troubles than the American Civil war.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find more of those in use in the US I. The coming years.
and mostly targeting blue counties too.
Have they identified the cop that commited this assault?
Of course not. They’re above the law.
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.
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.
Even if the shot were accidental -> still not acceptable.
Shitty piggy.
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.
If you mix ammonia and bleach, and pump balloons full of it, when the balloons pop it releases some bad fumes
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