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Re:Audio Engineers Built a Shield to Deflect Police Sound Ca... by ilikehurdles on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:48PM (#23479947)
Small correction, it's "less lethal", not "less than lethal". Many of those crowd control devices are still very lethal. A protester had to be resucitated the other day because a rubber bullet to the chest caused her heart to stop.
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Re:Audio Engineers Built a Shield to Deflect Police Sound Ca... by inetknght on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:59PM (#23480072)
It wasn't a rubber bullet. It was a flashbang. Here's a graphic video of it. [0]

There was also a Twitter from a field medic describing the woman's heart stopped repeatedly. I'll look if I can find it but, frankly, there's a lot of noise about protests.

Edit: it was a Reddit thread, not a Twitter thread. [1]

Also edit: there might have been other instances too. This is just what I remembered seeing the other day.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eA27bZl_8Y

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/gywxhz/folks_i_nee...

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Re:Audio Engineers Built a Shield to Deflect Police Sound Ca... by ashtonkem on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @04:01PM (#23481384)
A woman died in Ohio this week after exposure to teargas; her respiratory system stopped functioning despite not having asthma before.

Officially the use of rubber batons (bullets in common parlance) in Northern Ireland killed 17 people; although one would be wise in doubting the veracity of English reports on English behavior in Northern Ireland.

These tools are quite dangerous.

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Re:Audio Engineers Built a Shield to Deflect Police Sound Ca... by SauciestGNU on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @05:49PM (#23482546)
>A woman died in Ohio this week after exposure to teargas

This passive voice enrages me, it is more appropriate to say the police murdered a woman with tear gas. There were people with agency who actively made decisions which directly caused this woman's death.

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Re:Audio Engineers Built a Shield to Deflect Police Sound Ca... by ashtonkem on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @06:03PM (#23482691)
Yes, you’re right. That was a bad place for the passive voice.
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Re:Audio Engineers Built a Shield to Deflect Police Sound Ca... by SauciestGNU on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @06:06PM (#23482719)
I didn't mean to direct that rant at you specifically, I've just seen a lot of usage of the passive voice lately that serves to decouple police actions and their consequences.
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