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Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by _DeadFred_ on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @08:24PM (#44242992)
And power. Like their power over this young girl trying to go home:

Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1l88mhj/lap...

Old dead link: https://www.reddit.com/r/chaoticgood/comments/1l8ax0z/protes...

Remember, less lethal does not mean non-lethal and doesn't mean it can't cause enough damage to impact someone's quality of life forever.

Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by rkagerer on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @04:14AM (#44245331)
Poignant video.

The cameraperson or another bystander should have called 911. Asked for ambulance (and maybe fire dept) to attend. In addition to medical care, that would at least get some higher degree of paperwork going from an accountability perspective.

Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by leereeves on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @09:22AM (#44247347)
Definitely a disturbing abuse of power, but it's LAPD. Where's the connection to Republicans?
Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by aisenik on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @10:37AM (#44248107)
"Blue lives" flags are intensely fascist, unpatriotic symbology and an explicit desecration of the American flag, that might be a good place to start your research.

State-sanctioned organized crime by white supremacist terrorists, that's the connection with Republicans. They pardoned the insurrectionists that violently captured the capital building and pay off murderers whose crimes achieve their political goals. It's mostly happening out in the open, brazenly. We're not rational machines, we're easily manipulated and it takes less energy to settle into beliefs others want us to have. "Flood the zone" works but reality is still happening.

Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by wickedsight on Thursday June 12, 2025 @09:11AM (#44257393)
So... I come from a country where police are still mostly respected. They also don't use rubber bullets usually.

From my point of view, this person was disobeying orders from police, which gives them the right to use force. Is a rubber bullet an appropriate amount of force? Probably not, but I don't see this video as a completely one sided interaction with one party being wrong.

Re:Marines mobilized in response to LA protests by Viliam1234 on Thursday June 12, 2025 @05:27PM (#44263380)
Please explain, because I was probably watching a different video than you.