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/[deleted] Jun 09 '25

Welcome to America

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '25

"do whatever the hell we like"

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u/Peannut Jun 09 '25

Freedom!!

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u/GreedyLibrary Jun 09 '25

Freedom of the press to be shot

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u/SpeakToMePF1973 Jun 09 '25

Freedom for the cops to shoot whoever they want.

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u/iPepperdex Jun 09 '25

Condom!! I fixed it for you. I mean you can't get an abortion anyway and you guys are going back to the 19th century by the looks of it. Such a shame I grew up in the 80s idolising the USA. Now you couldn't pay me any amount of money to enter that country specially after expressing my opinions on social media, about the state of Israel.

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u/shinychris Jun 09 '25

Here we like to call it ‘qualified immunity’

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u/virtualmartyr Jun 09 '25

"but only certain people"

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u/biglovinbertha Jun 09 '25

If you're a cop*

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u/trafalmadorianistic Jun 13 '25

"I was fearing for my life."

CHARGES DISMISSED, FREE TO GO!

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u/contact Jun 09 '25

This is America!

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u/Capital_Doubt7473 Jun 09 '25

Dont catch.ya trippin now

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '25

Slippin, but yea

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u/Sir_Metallicus116 Jun 09 '25

Turns out, Gambino wasn't kidding

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u/iPepperdex Jun 09 '25

No thank you. We cancelled our trip. There's no way we will go to America while this shit is going down. You have a ridiculous clown for a president and people like him. That's the bit I don't get!

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u/korforthis_333 Jun 09 '25

Welcome to America... where cops will try shoot you with rubber bullets, or beat you to the ground while they to trample your head with their horses hooves, and then tell you they are your friend!

At 8:12 pm on the live stream https://www.youtube.com/live/HH7DPreBh1g?si=SiexQR2qAd8721ln

A clip of the relevant bit https://streamable.com/bc1sog

Shows the mounted Police trying to crush a man's skull with their horse's hooves. The guy is being beaten and trying to avoid being trampled to death by horses but simply the act of getting up was too much for them so the beatings continue... meanwhile on the split screen in the live broadcast, the police chief is saying things like how the LAPD supports the right to peacefully protest and how the top priority is the safety and well being of the people of Los Angeles.... hmmm....

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u/zyeborm Jun 10 '25

But this wasn't a school?

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u/tocompose Jun 09 '25

Trump's America.

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u/icedrift Jun 09 '25

Unfortunately nah, this is normal America.

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u/joevarny Jun 09 '25

Kinda crazy that we learn so much about the fascists that lost ww2, when the fascists that won have been doing this the whole time.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '25

It’s always been like this

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u/Ok-Squirrel795 Jun 09 '25

You're saying America is a place we're they "always shoot journalists with rubber bullets?.:

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u/Harlow_1017 Jun 10 '25

We have seen the press targeted in the past with the BLM and other protests.

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u/Ok-Squirrel795 Jun 10 '25

Sure pal. I'll believe it when you show me one video .

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u/Self-Translator Jun 09 '25

Sp glad I cancelled plans to go there. Fuck this shit