Re: Los Angeles Has Surrendered

On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 02:08:39 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:

On Jun 9, 2025 at 2:25:56 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
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Here's a First Amendment violation that BTR1701 might agree with and
moviePig won't care about.
 
During crowd control, police fire nonlethal rubber bullet into leg of
Lauren Tomasi, a tv reporter from Australia, while she is reporting.
Here's the video her producer shot. What the hell was the cop aiming at?
 
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https://apnews.com/video/australian-reporter-hit-by-nonlethal-round-while-covering-intensifying-protests-in-los-angeles-9695217ad2fa48c9a1adc4fbb0091c59

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The video won't load for me. It just plays a breast cancer ad, then gives me a
spinning wheel.
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However at a guess, maybe the cop was aiming for some miscreant near or behind
her and missed. Or maybe he's an asshole who should be brought up on charges.
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No, the reporter was there with a number of other reporters around
her. She was talking to her cameraman and there didn't appear to be
any one near them. The protestors didn't appear to be any where near
them from what we could see in the film released so far.

So even if there had been protestors behind the reporter they clearly
weren't near the police or of even threat to them. To me it seems that
the officer was just pissed at the them being there and recording what
the officers were doing so he took the opportunity to take a shot at
the reporter.