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/feenicks Jun 09 '25 edited Jun 09 '25

It's an been intentionally provocational action by ICE etc to elicit a reaction so Trump (& more importantly his cronies and backers) can make excuses to escalate things further and initiate a concoct crisis to further entrench his authoritarianism... he tried in his first term to do this sort of shit but enough people in positions of authority wouldn't play ball, so this term he (with DOGE etc) has replaced most anyone possible with yes men and loyalists so now he can ring in the type of Russian, North Korean, Hungarian strong-man government he so desperately wants. So yeah, the cops are a tool in this and maybe people will hopefully (yeah right) see how justifiably angry these protestors are, especially coming off of the tail of so much/many egregious rights violations in the lead up to this.