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kirby007 on 05 June 2020

Cutting the budget for the police is the dumbest thing you can do, guess whose training becomes even shorter



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sundin13 on 05 June 2020
kirby007 said:
Cutting the budget for the police is the dumbest thing you can do, guess whose training becomes even shorter

Depends on how the budget is cut. If the budget cuts limit the militarization of the police, I support that, but I do believe that police should have more training and be paid more (to attract more people, allowing departments to be more selective).



SvennoJ on 05 June 2020
sethnintendo said:
vivster said:

I bet that more of them were the bullies.

I suppose you are probably right.  The shoving down old people and attacking reporters is ridiculous.  Also the shooting of people in head with rubber bullets and bean bags is fucked up. 

Here is how you don't do crowd control.  They could disperse the crowd with water cannons and that would probably be less harmful.

Water cannons are deadly weapons as well and easily abused
https://www.economist.com/asia/2016/10/01/death-by-water-cannon
https://www.military.com/video/law-enforcement/police/turkish-police-water-cannon-kills-man/2424004746001



Jumpin on 05 June 2020

Swine Flu-20 seems to be worse than Covid-19.



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sethnintendo on 05 June 2020
SvennoJ said:
sethnintendo said:

I suppose you are probably right.  The shoving down old people and attacking reporters is ridiculous.  Also the shooting of people in head with rubber bullets and bean bags is fucked up. 

Here is how you don't do crowd control.  They could disperse the crowd with water cannons and that would probably be less harmful.

Water cannons are deadly weapons as well and easily abused
https://www.economist.com/asia/2016/10/01/death-by-water-cannon
https://www.military.com/video/law-enforcement/police/turkish-police-water-cannon-kills-man/2424004746001

Wow dang.  They were pretty close to the vehicle. Even distance twice as far as that could be deadly.  Usually they get sprayed from way farther distance but wherever that was they rolled up way too close.   I'd put blame on cops for that one heck you can see the vehicle still going forward practically feet away from them.



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Torillian on 05 June 2020
sethnintendo said:
SvennoJ said:

Water cannons are deadly weapons as well and easily abused
https://www.economist.com/asia/2016/10/01/death-by-water-cannon
https://www.military.com/video/law-enforcement/police/turkish-police-water-cannon-kills-man/2424004746001

Wow dang.  They were pretty close to the vehicle. Even distance twice as far as that could be deadly.  Usually they get sprayed from way farther distance but wherever that was they rolled up way too close.   I'd put blame on cops for that one heck you can see the vehicle still going forward practically feet away from them.

Yeah but then I guess the issue is that if a water cannon can be deadly if used improperly then we're in a similar situation as the current one where these tools have ways in which they are meant to be used (rubber bullets bounced off the ground) and police are misusing them.



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JRPGfan on 05 June 2020
SvennoJ said:
sethnintendo said:

I suppose you are probably right.  The shoving down old people and attacking reporters is ridiculous.  Also the shooting of people in head with rubber bullets and bean bags is fucked up. 

Here is how you don't do crowd control.  They could disperse the crowd with water cannons and that would probably be less harmful.

Water cannons are deadly weapons as well and easily abused
https://www.economist.com/asia/2016/10/01/death-by-water-cannon
https://www.military.com/video/law-enforcement/police/turkish-police-water-cannon-kills-man/2424004746001

If the pressure on the water beam is hard enough, it ll cut through diamonds.
That water cannon lookings strong enough, just gotta focus the beam abit, and you could probably use that to probably cut people in half.

Imagine that gif showing the beam comeing through and cutting off limbs?
Lmao at that beam actually blasting like 5 people away. The force of that thing is crazy.



Jumpin on 05 June 2020

Some music for the Swine Flu pandemic in the US



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JRPGfan on 05 June 2020

You guys seen the video with the old man in his 70's trying to return a riot gear helmet, to the riot police?

"heres one of your helmets, one of you must have left it behinde"
*cops just ignore him, and what hes carrying*
*cop gives him a push*
*old man falls back, wobbling and falling down to crack open his head*


Theres blood running out of his damn ear, and you see him laying there shakeing abit, before passing out.
Cops just move right past him.

Seriously? its messed up.



Jumpin on 05 June 2020
John2290 said:
JRPGfan said:

If the pressure on the water beam is hard enough, it ll cut through diamonds.
That water cannon lookings strong enough, just gotta focus the beam abit, and you could probably use that to probably cut people in half.

Imagine that gif showing the beam comeing through and cutting off limbs?
Lmao at that beam actually blasting like 5 people away. The force of that thing is crazy.

That dude who went flying would have been fine if he hadn't put his shield up, that's what pushed him back with such force. 

He would have been fine if they didn't use the fucking water cannons.



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