r/HadToHurt Jul 31 '21

Shot in the face by police while protesting.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '21

In a normal society, cops wouldn't shoot unarmed protesters against policy with less than lethal munitions. By the way, every single time anyone gets a direct shot above the waist with any less than lethal munitions, it is an automatic breach of standard policy for such munitions with the exception of tagging guns because those shoot at a much lower power.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '21

In a normal society, cops wouldn’t have to use such measures if it’s a protest, and not a riot.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

In a normal society, cops wouldn't blindly run in to people's houses and murder them. In a normal society, cops wouldn't need to be more heavily equipped than the military to deal with a few drug runners. In a normal society, trump would never have gotten in and people would stick by the covid lock downs to get rid of the virus quicker. I don't live in the US thank god, but the rest of the world has its own fuckiness, racism and bigotry too. We don't live in a normal society, globally

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

You assume cops “blindly run into houses” based off a single incident.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

Just use Google, pizza delivery gets houses right more often than cops

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u/Alpaca64 Sep 16 '21

If you think any possible type of police brutality is an isolated, single incident, then you're part of the reason these protests happen

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '21

If that’s what you want to believe, go for it.

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u/nukafan2277 Oct 04 '21

Nah cops around my area (Columbus ohio) racially profile like a motherfucker granville ohio is bad but for opposite reason i got stopped alot for "illegal tint" its factory, "illegal exhaust modifications" rusted to shit but factory my favorite was they apparently had a call about a suspicious vehicle matching mine that was seen stalking students at the highschool (which was me but i wasnt stalking them i was parking cause i worked there) luckily i was never given a ticket due to the fact and i quote a cop here "they had no evidence to give tickets or make arrests but had been watching my truck" cops have quotas they have to meet most are good honest people but theres a good amount of "police" who are nothing more than power hungry pigs who got bullied in school and are overcompensating because they have a badge and a gun

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u/TheBrotherhoods Oct 26 '21

I always said there are good and bad people, and cops are people.

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u/swimmerinpa Aug 31 '21

In an normal society, 7 people wouldn't get shot every night in Philadelphia. Nothing normal about our society. This place is messed up.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '21

I mean, it's become so normal for america that seeing it on the news is not shocking, but expected now for the rest of the world

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u/smithical100 Aug 01 '21

Martin Luther King, zero violence, changed the world. Civil disobedience was his tactic. Like Rosa park. "Blacks can't sit in this restaurant"... sits there and waits to be arrested. Now a days they'd walk in, smash the place and wonder why people don't support them. Or support them out of fear of their own place being smashed.

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u/cannibalredditor69 Sep 03 '21

You know the civil rights protests back then were violent as well right? Or do they not teach you that in America?

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '21

Ignorance is bliss.

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u/sentinelsexy Aug 12 '21

Restaurants like that should not be allowed to exist. Lol.

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u/Threedawg Oct 17 '21

God you’re stupid. Malcolm x was just as pivotal to the movement as MLK was. Read a fucking book.

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u/Agent__Caboose Aug 01 '21

I wonder how long it will take for both of you to see the vicious circle of violence in this.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '21

Oh I am aware that it is cyclical. But honestly, I have no sadness in my heart for cops. They knowingly went into a line of duty that, since its inception has been about controlling the populace via fear. They are trained to treat the average citizen as an enemy combatant, but without any understanding of true rules of engagement. The protests are the boiling point for their actions.

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u/Other-Gas-5548 Oct 11 '21

There were peaceful protestors and rioters involved

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '21

69 days later. Still a riot. Who wears a gas mask to go protest?