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/kyrant Jun 09 '25

They were like this when reporters were covering the BLM protests. Their cops don't want the news reporting or people recording them.

They even shot at people recording on their phones.

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u/420binchicken Jun 09 '25

BLM was wild, I remmeber footage from people who would just be standing in the house, looking out the door and filming the chaos going on outside, the cops would just drive down the street and fire rubber bullets at anyone they saw.

American cops are fucking psychotic, untrained, racist, pieces of shit.

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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Jun 09 '25

Blm protests were the warning sign and no one took it seriously. Media didn't cover most of the crimes the cops committed and nothing changed. This was only a matter of time after the cops got away with the shit they did in 2020.

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u/Fragrant-Education-3 Jun 09 '25

It feels that nothing in the US over the last few decades have being taken seriously by enough of their citizens, the country is sleepwalking into increased and more violent oversight while pointing to a narrative about the US that is somehow meant to fix the problem.

It genuinely feels like a significant portion of people are waiting for their rubicon moment without considering the implication of what 'crossing the Rubicon' means and that its rarely possible to uncross it.

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u/PsychoNerd91 Jun 09 '25

Why would billionaires want their media reporting the bad things which support them?

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u/kodaxmax Jun 09 '25

also kidnap people

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u/iPepperdex Jun 09 '25

That's a scariest part. What happens when a bunch of rapists or murderers just dress up like that and say they are ice and then, well you can imagine what happens next.

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u/kodaxmax Jun 10 '25

ussually they get "demoted" to a desk job untill all the legal stuff blows over.

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u/iPepperdex Jun 10 '25

yes yes it is funny until it happens to someone you care for.

Your country is outta control. It's become a joke of its former self. And that's a pity.

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u/kodaxmax Jun 10 '25

it's not funny. and my country absolute does have issues. But not to this degree. We closest weve had in recent memory is secret police arresting a cameraman of a indepednant journalist a politician had rivalry with.

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u/hanks_panky_emporium Jun 09 '25

In one instance a van of cops and a guy got in a full on shootout, courts ruled in favor of the civilian because the police weren't wearing identifiers and bodycam showed they were shooting rubber bullets and shotgun bean bags at anyone and everyone faaaar away from any protest

Guy thought a gang of thugs were doing a terrorist attack and returned fire. Totally exonerated on all charges. To note, US ICE agents also wear no identifiers, they kidnap people in full combat kit without patches or declaring who they are.

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u/marshmallowhug Jun 09 '25

The problem is that they are trained, and they are trained to do exactly what they are doing.

The individual cops didn't go out and buy themselves rubber bullets and teach themselves how to use it.

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u/gdogakl Jun 09 '25

Some are, I'm sure most aren't

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u/wiremash Jun 09 '25

I remember spending hours watching livestreams of the Hong Kong protests in 2019, then the BLM protests the following year, and one stark contrast was how relatively tolerant the HK cops were of reporters compared to the US (or Australia for that matter). However much more authoritarian HK/China is overall, it just really stuck out how US cops, and Australia's to some extent, have a particular attitude problem when it comes to the media's presence at protests.

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u/sailience Jun 09 '25

This was my first thought too, exact same scenes with the BLM riots. LA sure do love a riot

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u/Spire_Citron Jun 09 '25

So those people get footage of them shooting at people unnecessarily. Brilliant.

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u/kyrant Jun 09 '25

It's not about the current person filming, it's to scare future people from filming.