The police problem is that police are policed by the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.
99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it's not on this page.
When cops are caught breaking the law, they're investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers' names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.
When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with 'law enforcement experience' and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It's called "Wandering Cops."
When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: "testilying." Yet it's almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.
Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don't, they aren't cops for long.
The legal doctrine of "qualified immunity" renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past 'qualified immunity' is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.
All this is a path to a police state.
In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.
Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.
That's the solution.
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Our definition of ‘cops’ is broad, and includes prison guards, probation officers, shitty DAs and judges, etc — anyone who has the authority to fuck over people’s lives, with minimal or no oversight.
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ALLIES
• r/ACAB
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INFO
• A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions
• Cops aren't supposed to be smart
• Killings by law enforcement in Canada
• Killings by law enforcement in the United Kingdom
• Killings by law enforcement in the United States
• Know your rights: Filming the police
• Three words. 70 cases. The tragic history of 'I can’t breathe' (as of 2020)
• Police aren't primarily about helping you or solving crimes.
• Police lie under oath, a lot
• Police spin: An object lesson in Copspeak
• Police unions and arbitrators keep abusive cops on the street
• Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States
• When the police knock on your door
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ORGANIZATIONS
• NAACP
• National Police Accountability Project
• Vera: Ending Mass Incarceration
Always bring earplugs, ear defenders, and if possible a large, flat rigid object. A sign made of corflute is meh, a big flat book is pretty good.
If possible, wear glasses and put the flat object between you and the LRAD while it's going, these can cause ear and eye injuries by vibrating the fluid in your eyeballs. Even a thin barrier can attenuate the sound down to a safer level.
Should get their own lrad
I’m sure it will pretty quickly get designated as a weapon then
It is considered a weapon afaik, which is why you cant own/use it. Its just another one of those "non lethal" but still very much harmful ones. This one was incredibly weak tho, basically just a very loud portable speaker. If they used an actual big LRAD, then nobody would be standing there anymore. Eventually they will pull out the microwave based ones that make your skin burn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzG4oEutPbA
In a heartbeat
Didn’t seem very effective.
Edit: Not that it can’t be, it just seems like people stuck around.
I was wondering why they turned it off too.
Totally unrelated, an old satellite dish or really anything concave and hard can be used to direct the sound waves at the emitter/operator. Also, most hard materials can block most of the negative impacts of sonic weapons like this.
Even better, any old round plastic trash bin can be cut out into a rounded dish that when turned around will reflect the beam, and it can also be held like a riot shield to protect against projectiles!
(do keep in mind that most jurisdictions would consider you deliberately reflecting an LRAD to be an assault against the officers, and would literally throw you in jail for it, though curiously it's not bad when they do it directly to you, just not when you defend yourself. Who would have thought?)
Should blast baby shark back at them
peaceful demonstrators
Damn, Americans really like to tiktok dance their problems like frogs. I pity more they don't know how to liberate.
I don't believe we should discourage anyone that takes any action against fascism.
Not everyone is capable of or comfortable with violence.
Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume One: Building Movements and Fighting to Win One
22 years of peaceful demonstrations have never liberated our siblings from deathcamps.
The incapable should be in foodbanks, childcare, agriculture, healthcare, and other peaceful coalitions of armed revolt.
These acts are suicidal.
Please read volume 2. We are past the theatrics.
You are missing the point, we need all action. Any action that anyone is willing to make.
Let's not waste time telling people that their action is meaningless. Talk to the people that take no action, and give them choices.
Suicide acts aren't political actions.
22 years of suicide acts are indeed meaningless. I listed you choices of noncombatant and comfortable acts of revolution. Unless getting deathcamped means comfortable to you.
Ok, well I guess keep focusing your effort to troll the people that generally agree with you but have a slightly different opinion.
Is this the new liberal tactic? Call Black Panther Anarchists “trolls”? Is that going to stop the war on US civilians and Venezuelans?