9News US Correspondent Lauren Tomasi hit by rubber bullet during Los Angeles protests
I wish so badly I could edit the title to more accurately reflect what happened. "Police shoot reporter in the back."
If that's what they will do to a unarmed attractive female Australian white reporter while being filmed, what they are doing to minorities must be fucking horrendous.
Exactly. They're already willing to beat them to death on camera. What the fuck are they doing with so many of them flooding the streets and kidnapping people?
Let's not jump to conclusions here, there is still time for them to kidnap her and deport her to El Salvador!!
I know "deport" is technically correct by the definition of the word, but I feel like we need to start using different terminology when they're sending people to a mega prison in a third country that they've likely never been to and have no historical or familial connection to.
This is rendition. They (we) are kidnapping and imprisoning people with no due process. It's shameful. I'm ashamed.
Are you saying were not attractive? LOL.
Are we great again yet? Or do we need to be made great again again again and again?
Unpopular Opinion: Y'all were never great. The country had one brief period of some sanity before it got dropkicked out the door by Reagan. The only difference between the United States and Russia is good PR and even better propaganda. The United States is offensive to common sense and human decency on every fundamental level, from it's inception until today. Things are just more obvious now. That's the only difference.
Oh come on! At one point, through almost an accident of history, our country was still able to make things, build things, and pump out babies while the rest of the organized world had to reassemble their firebombed and nuked cities.
The US threw over 100,000 of its own citizens in concentration camps 60 years before Reagan was president. You're giving the man far too much credit.
Come on… other than the eugenics movement the 20’s sound decent. Lots of nice art deco a few years later….
Take that with the mid 50’s though the late 70’s and you’re talking about a solid half century. It’s not a bad run given our assumed trajectory ;-)
I was always kind looking forward to seeing the dystopian wasteland phase.
You think the U.S. was great in the late 70? I guess if you were a straight white guy then of course.
That is an incredibly bad take. One so fundamentally poor, indeed obtuse, that this comment has to be filed under, " you've got to be fucking kidding me"
Don't expect a response from me. I won't waste time on stupidity.
We're getting greater. Gotta get rid of anybody with pronouns, skin, or who is awake.
That includes you, queers, and you, darkies! And you, brownies! And don't forget the people that believe in gods. And likely the people that don't, too. And anybody that disagrees.
Ok. Now, who's left?
Now who doesn't fit in? Who's the deviant, now? We gotta keep pruning and killing and sowing unhappiness.
Only once we reach the end, will we be great.
You do realize that the people who voted for Trump are loving all of this. They want a police state. Because they believe that they will never be subject to it.
Let the leopards eat their faces.
They should have used the photo of the officer aiming at her.
And the title... I hate the passive voice shit with pigs.
"Hit by rubber bullet"
The man aimed at her and opened fire. It's on camera. "Shot by cop."
"Intercepted non-lethal round from law enforcement."
"Crossed paths with lawfully-launched projectile. "
"Interfered with first-amendment suppression."
In the article they show the video of her being shot at and also describe what happened as the officer aming and shooting her
It's the BLM protests all over again... Including them taking shots at the press.
What legal reason would the police have for shooting journalists who are in no way in the midst of any violence?
edit: looks like they are going to claim she was blocking traffic, even though the car could have used the other lane.
Is it standard to shoot people who are blocking traffic?
The car that hadn't even come round the corner yet?
“Hit by rubber bullet” as if it was a stray. Watch the live broadcast and it’s clear as day the shooter lifted his gun and aimed straight at her without provocation
People seem to be rising up, at least. Finally. Hopefully momentum keeps them going and they start organizing a bit better and being more impactful.. Let's start the revolution.
Need more pixels
Its kinda weird how dude looks like a cutout cop in both photos.
ENHANCE!
CIS/NCIS (mmm gibbs) really did fuck my expectations about resolution.
You have to say "alexa" first.
I'm surprised they're using rubber bullets and not proper ones.
Looks like a bean bag, a rubber bullet at that range would have done more damage.
The rest of the world sees the USA, Mexico and Canada as basically one country, and laugh at this.
I know nobody that sees those three as one country. They are vastly different in terms of politics.
It's one economic unit.
Nice bait
You're saying the shooting was justified?
They're a one day old account posting nonsense. They aren't serious
Loser shit
Did we watch the same video? The cop did that on purpose. There wasn't anyone else to shoot at there.
The only other people were other press. There were camera and microphone operators. Looking at the video, it's so obvious that the cop aimed at the press and then shot.
Is there any way to tell what kind of cop that was?
My extensive experience leads me to think he is a bastard
easy way: they were a cop. all types are the same: bastard traitor terrorists.
I'd like to present a different view. It doesn't excuse the shot, but it could offer an explanation better than "the officer took aim and shot the journalist for shits and giggles"
The officer clearly took aim and shot the journalist on purpose. But when the camera turns 180 to GTFO you see a crowd. It would seem, to me at least, that the members of the press were positioned between the police and the protesters.
It can be hard to tell from that angle, and with no context, how the lines were drawn. But let's, for the sake of the argument, just go with this assumption. It would appear that the police wanted to get the press to fuck on out of there, so there would be no bystanders before pushing the protesters back.
Doesn't that make it OK? Not really. One could argue that police wouldn't want to hurt the press, and getting them out was necessary. One could also be lead to believe that the police could have other motives for not wanting the press there with their pesky cameras.
On reddit they said these people are like fox News over there so they are pro trump they wouldn't claim the police did anything wrong but still obviously have to say something as it's live TV
Channel 9 are not quite Fox News level but definitely Fox Lite. They're careful in their written news articles to only be centre-right, but their video and TV news broadcasts are heavily favoured to right-wing bias and favourable story selection, and always very critical of any left wing interests.
I'm not sure of their YouTube channel is available worldwide, but if you check that out if you can and you'll quickly see it's got all the same talking points as Sky News Australia (News Corp - Murdoch, Sky News is the Aussie version of Fox News).
Also, crossfire? Nobody else was shooting. It was just cops.
My local news said «when the police aimed at her and shot» at lest some can see what’s up
They always do