• TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    The article says, “caught in the crossfire”. They were afraid to report what can be seen clearly, the cop aimed at her with purpose.

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      haha they edited that line out afterwards. I guess someone realised the protesters weren’t shooting rubber bullets.

    • eureka@aussie.zoneM
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      Yeah. Listening to body cam audio from BLM, pigs are laughing about which media company’s reporters they hope they hit. They see the Media jacket and they don’t blink – a camera is a camera.

      And, in case it needs to be plainly stated, this is a form of terror against press.

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    Something like 9 reporters have been shot with rubber bullets.

    After watching this video, it doesn’t feel like they’re accidents.

  • RedSeries (She/Her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Ugh.

    “hit by rubber bullet”

    You mean deliberately aimed at while reporting and not causing a disturbance of any kind and then fucking shot at, right? You mean intentionally targeted and shot at for no reason, right? You mean assaulted because police are fascist pigs, right?

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      The cop did that because he knows there is no accountability for doing so. He thought it’d be cool, so he did it.

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        He thought it’d be cool, so he did it.

        Don’t get me wrong, they do think it’s funny and laugh about it, but this is not just a prank or joke. It’s intentionally terrorising people who bring cameras to expose their actions. We saw the same targeting of the press during BLM.

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      Oh no no no, they were *checks original copy of the article* “caught in the crossfire”.

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      There were no consequences for the cops that did it during the 2020 protests, so why would this time be different?

      One journalist even died from her injuries and nobody even got named for that one.

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        The cops are hopeful that they won’t have to go another 5 years without regularly shooting journalists and women in the back for fun.

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    “This incident serves as a stark reminder of the inherent dangers journalists can face while reporting from the frontlines of protests, underscoring the importance of their role in providing vital information.”

    Man, why don’t you just thank the friggin’ cop.

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      Yeah, when I posted this the extended longer video appeared at the top of the page on load. They’ve since added more videos, so now the footage of the reporter being shot with a rubber bullet is video 3 (or there’s just the YouTube link in the post body which is better quality anyway).

      • P00ptart@lemmy.world
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        No worries, at this point most of us who care have seen it dozens of times already. But it is just so weird that they do that stuff after the fact. I mean, unless it’s an updated, live thing. I get that, but why split a video into a bunch of short gifs? Is there a modern psych thing that says it’s easier to take in or something?

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    Journalist AND foreign?

    Surprised that’s not worth 2 shots at least!

    /s just in case it wasn’t obvious…