Linda Tirado was in Minneapolis from out of state covering the protests and rioting when police shot her in the face with a rubber bullet, also known as a "less-lethal" round.

A journalist shot by police during the 2020 Minneapolis unrest following the murder of George Floyd is dying from her injuries, friends say.

Linda Tirado was in Minneapolis from out of state covering the protests and rioting when police shot her in the face with a rubber bullet, also known as a “less-lethal” round. She suffered a traumatic brain injury and was blinded in one eye.

  • TurtleJoe@lemmy.world
    46·
    5 months ago

    But of course, police are given 3 months of training tops, so they just fire them wherever.

    I don’t think they fire them wherever. I think they aim at people’s faces because they think it’s funny.

    • I'm back on my BS 🤪English
      222·
      5 months ago

      They’re meant to be fired any where. They say at the legs so people will be okay with it. It’s like when people go to Vegas with their friends for girls/boys trip. There aint nothing there but gambling and debauchery. Most people go there to cheat.

      • Natanael@slrpnk.net
        61·
        5 months ago

        They’re literally meant to only be bounced off the ground, that’s some BS propaganda

        • I'm back on my BS 🤪English
          28·
          5 months ago

          That’s what they say. The people that use them know very well that they are going to shoot them however they please. However, if they were to say so, that might make them illegal or result in liability issues if someone is severely injured. Thus, they have to pretend that they would only shoot them at the legs. This is how I imagine the conversation went:

          Politician A: We can fire rubber bullets at them to stop. It will give us an excuse to make the protestors shit themselves in fear of death, but they wont be killed since we’re using rubber bullets. That will get them to stop fighting us.

          Politician B: Yeah, but how are we gonna get the public to allow us to shoot bullets at them? They’re not going to let us do that. All they would have to argue is that the rubber bullets could severely injure or kill someone that is shot in the face.

          A: We’ll just say that the rubber bullets will only be shot at the legs.

          B: That might not be intimidating enough.

          A: Don’t worry. We’re just saying that. The cops will do as they normally do.

          B: Wont they know that it’s a lie when they get shot in the face?

          A: Nah. We’ll say it was an accident or bounced off of the floor.

          B: 🤜

          A: 🤛