The protester said the rally was peaceful until it suddenly got ugly. Now, as he recovers in the hospital, he's not sure if he'll get his vision back in his right eye.
I saw somebody say that older rounds were designed to be used that way while newer rounds are meant to be aimed at center mass (both from at least a certain distance away to let the energy dissipate before it hits somebody/something), but cops have both kinds in their arsenal and fire them both directly at people from point-blank range - breaking all the rules for their use.
I was at a protest in DTLA where they were firing them. Some cops were flinching when the rounds were fired. So I’m going with both incompetent and malicious.
Less lethal is just maiming? That doesn’t seem much fucking better.
You are supposed to aim centre mass with less lethal. Hitting the eye means you are incompetent (unlikely), or malicious (definitely).
You also aren’t supposed to aim directly at people but bounce them off the ground, IIRC
Not the briefing I got when we got to try them out when I was in the navy.
I saw somebody say that older rounds were designed to be used that way while newer rounds are meant to be aimed at center mass (both from at least a certain distance away to let the energy dissipate before it hits somebody/something), but cops have both kinds in their arsenal and fire them both directly at people from point-blank range - breaking all the rules for their use.
I was at a protest in DTLA where they were firing them. Some cops were flinching when the rounds were fired. So I’m going with both incompetent and malicious.
I think that part of a cop’s competency is not being malicious. Or in other words, a malicious cop is also necessarily incompetent.
Rubber bullets are supposed to be fired at the ground and bounce up into targets…
Not all of them.
Hey, that’s an insult to trained shooters. They are clearly both.