"Just to lighten the mood...favorite restaurant as a kid"
I know this is not the response you want but everyone one of the protesters caused this. Go home and don't encourage others to confront the police. It is not worth is. Hell MN has decided to disband their police and almost all precincts will be undergoing more scrutiny. Staying out there every day is just going to lead to confrontation and there are people who are trying to help getting caught in the fight.
"As we were being boxed in on Broadway & 5th Street to be arrested, LAPD decided that a completely unarmed homeless man in a wheelchair that had nothing to do with our protest was somehow a threat. They proceeded to inappropriately shoot non-lethal rounds directly at his face, which is against proper procedure for firing rubber bullets."
How does the homeless man go home?
Of course he didn’t deserve that, but you can’t be laying hands on police during a stressful situation.
No protestors no cops. Then no rubber bullets and they did not walk up to him and shoot him in the face with a rubber bullet. Also the gentleman who got pushed out of the way was wrong also. The same action would have happened if he did it to you on the street. The people need to go home and work on what they want done and not just keep yelling. It is counter productive.
No you can’t. The man made a poor decision. But the response by the officer was an unnecessary use of force.
There was the other angle which has been deleted by the protester who took is that shows the cops and the protesters fighting in front and these guys are on their way. The poor old man may not have even heard anything going on and just was trying to explain to the cop what the problem is.
I think it is not as much as it looks like. The thing is he is an old man and it don't take much.
I agree they meant no harm it was a freak accident and he got unlucky. I hope he recovers fully, then they charge him
This is deem8 level reporting. You are better than that. From one picture of police pushing a bloody man in a wheelchair and from a quote from a rioter who obviously is there because he doesn’t like police, it is assumed as certain that the police just decided to shoot an innocent man in a wheelchair in the face. Nobody knows if this is true at all but it’s written and shared as if it is. It’s sad the agenda of some and it’s sad what social media and media in general is doing to this country
"As we were being boxed in on Broadway & 5th Street to be arrested, LAPD decided that a completely unarmed homeless man in a wheelchair that had nothing to do with our protest was somehow a threat. They proceeded to inappropriately shoot non-lethal rounds directly at his face, which is against proper procedure for firing rubber bullets."
If only there was a separate board for your $hitty political hot takes.
"As we were being boxed in on Broadway & 5th Street to be arrested, LAPD decided that a completely unarmed homeless man in a wheelchair that had nothing to do with our protest was somehow a threat. They proceeded to inappropriately shoot non-lethal rounds directly at his face, which is against proper procedure for firing rubber bullets."
Is it news to you that it requires less force to knock over and elderly individual?
Start with your disparaging headline and go from there. Are you really this oblivious?
Where is the video of this? Or the photo of the cops shooting this homeless man? Has to be one.
You are an angry little fella
"As we were being boxed in on Broadway & 5th Street to be arrested, LAPD decided that a completely unarmed homeless man in a wheelchair that had nothing to do with our protest was somehow a threat. They proceeded to inappropriately shoot non-lethal rounds directly at his face, which is against proper procedure for firing rubber bullets."
I didn’t assume anything. I have no idea what happened and neither do you. And how many lies and twists of the truth have you seen by people, media, etc? You think just because this photographer got a picture and put a quote with it that makes it fact?? Maybe he was accidentally hit, maybe he was hit by something else altogether. Who knows. But to post it as it’s a fact is sad.
Exactly. I seem to remember all this “it’s 2020, has to be video” stuff yesterday.
And yet you believe everything you read from liberal media?? And not only believe it, you pass it on as absolute fact. Aren’t you a lawyer? Geez. And you may not be a lawyer but you have to understand the difference in a possible story and a 100% fact.
I’ve never been on infowars in my life. And I don’t watch Fox News either. But I do have a brain and I do know the difference in a picture and an opinion and the truth or the possibility that something isn’t the truth. If this photographer saw it all happen why is there only a picture of a policeman peacefully wheeling this guy away to safety? Or I guess we can assume that he was actually taking him around the corner to dump him out of his chair and kick the crap out of him?
Perhaps if they weren't surrounded by complete chaos, looting, fires, riots and on edge of injuries or losing their lives, it would decrease the odds of mistakes like this getting made.
And you would know because you're right there in the mix putting your life on the line dealing with the riots and looting.
