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comment by am_Unition
am_Unition  ·  3752 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Deployment of sonic weapons, tear grenades, and rubber bullets against a nonviolent crowd  ·  

    It doesn't incapacitate anyone farther than maybe nausea and permanent hearing damage.

When you are permanently taking away something like a sensory ability, that is especially criminal. There is absolutely no reason that these devices should ever be used... anywhere. Other non-permanently damaging methods of riot and crowd control are just as effective. Utilizing LRAD is the result of someone's (really, multiple persons') hard-on(s) for harming other people.

It's about fucking time that we started having a national dialog about the out-of-control militarization of the U.S. police force. That it took such a series of unfortunate events to get peoples' wheels turning is pathetic.





ecib  ·  3752 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fucking this. It is a special kind if evil.