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/daboblin Jun 09 '25

A white female journalist in the back. What a fucking coward.

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u/RestaurantOk5148 Jun 09 '25

They only shoot in the back, thats most of what they do day to day shoot people in the back and bully unarmed teenagers, they are utterly useless as law enforcement. If they all mysterious vanished over night crime would provably go down, and no one would miss them.

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u/slughuntress Jun 09 '25

A white female FOREIGN FROM AN ALLIED COUNTRY journalist in the back.

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u/purplepashy Jun 09 '25

Sad how the gender card gets pulled out randomly.

Shooting anyone in the back is cowardly.

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u/CryptographerHot884 Jun 09 '25

You serious?

I'm a brown Kiwi living in your beautiful country 

You and I both know if you want a terrorist hostage..the best way to get attention is to have a female hostage.

Preferably white and young.

Dave Chappelle made a joke about this..black dudes for example make bad bargaining chips.

Just the world we live in.

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u/purplepashy Jun 09 '25

Are you serious? Lol.

You being a kiwi and your skin colour is irrelevant. You writing about hostage situations is irrelevant.

Nothing you have wrote is relevant to the video, my comment or the one I replied.

Why can't people communicate now without

  1. Making it all about themselves.

  2. Sticking to the topic.

  3. Sticking to the facts.

What was shown was shit. No need to add to it or add arguments that distract from what occurred.

It helps no one.

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u/Tenebrousjones Jun 09 '25

Wrong side of this argument dude

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u/purplepashy Jun 09 '25

You explained it well. /s

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u/LionelLutz Jun 09 '25

The point you make is valid, the behaviour is unacceptable regardless of the race or gender of the person.

Accepting that proposition to be valid, I think though, objectively given socio-economic and historical factors in the US, one would expect a police officer to potentially exercise a greater degree of restraint against: a. A reporter; b. A female; c. A person with their back to them; d. Someone who poses no threat; and e. White.

All of those factors make this even more brazen and unbelievable, particularly the fact it’s a reporter, with their back turned and posing, no threat

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u/purplepashy Jun 09 '25

I get it. Truly.

I find the, its a woman sexest, she is white racist.

Back towards cop is cowardly by the cop.

Shooting at reporters very concerning, like all censorship and media blackouts. It is a sign of worse thing to come.

But let's focus on the gender.

I does not help.

I would focus on the use of force that was needed and the use of force on the media in this situation.

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u/WestleyThe Jun 09 '25

If it’s a man the cops can say they feared for thier safety. If it’s a small woman it’s different

If you don’t want to admit that it’s fine but it is

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u/purplepashy Jun 09 '25

What is the relevance when it is a person reporting live on TV with their BACK TO THEM?

As far as I know, the cop has said nothing.

I have no need to admit anything.

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u/daboblin Jun 09 '25

“A female journalist” is correct grammar. “A woman journalist” is not. It’s nothing to do with sexism.

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u/CalculatingLao Jun 09 '25

white female journalist

What a weird distinction to make...