• ooterness@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Weapon is visible at 0:06, appears to be a paintball gun. Unclear if it’s pepper balls or something else.

    Still illegal use of force, but thank goodness it’s not bullets.

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      2 days ago

      Eventually, someone will panic and shoot back, then they’ll put away the non-lethal and start killing people, for safety reasons. For examples see any interaction with local police.

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      2 days ago

      Almost certainly pepper balls. I don’t know what else it could be. It’s something powdered at least, and that’s the only thing I know of that acts like that fired out of that weapon.

      But yeah, I read the title and assumed gunpowder bullets. It sucks that we’re thankful for “only” this level of violence.

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        1 day ago

        depending on where you are, using a paintball gun as a weapon gets it treated as a firearm

        and if somebody’s shooting at you with a firearm, you goddamn well have the right to shoot back. or at least that’s what I’ve been told about the US by the people who voted for this kind of shit to happen

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        2 days ago

        If some masked asshole is pointing a weapon at you while standing in front of your SUV, floor it.

        This isn’t going to stop until ICE actually gets the response Puppy Killer keeps saying they’re getting.

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          16 hours ago

          They would have killed here if she did this.m, possibly killing her kids in the process.

          I hope a lawyer gets ahold of her to sue ICE hard for harassment, assault, endangering her family, and whatever else they can.

          Start taking millions in settlements, it’s better that dying during an escalation.

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            16 hours ago

            As long as it’s taking everything the agents involved and their leadership own instead of just stacks of cash from taxpayers.