[asib]

> The demonstration turned violent when some protesters entered the Parliament complex, prompting police to resort to baton charges, tear gas shells and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd, eyewitnesses said.

14 people dead from so-called "non-lethal" means. How do 14 people end up dead without the police coming with intent to do harm?

[thinkingtoilet]

Rubber bullets have been shown time and time again to be lethal. Just because they don't kill you every time doesn't mean they aren't lethal. You can survive a gun shot too. Immense shame should be poured on every media outlet that licks the boot of authoritarians when they repeat this lie.

[bjackman]

Also note the phrasing. The content is "the police killed 14 people". But the form is "the situation turned violent as a result of the protester's actions".

[ddtaylor]

"See what you made me do" is a common phrase in domestic abuse.

[ivanjermakov]

Totalitarian states love this trick of putting provocators into the crowd to later blame civil protesters for violence/crime.

[whatsupdog]

I mean, what what do you do to protect the parliamentarians from blood thirsty crowds. Which side were you on during the January 6 riots/protests?

[wtcactus]

Isn’t this very similar to what protestors did on the January 6th incident in the USA?

[nirava]

19 people so far. mostly peaceful protestors shot. 80+ being treated, ~50 serious. It was "Gen Z" kids raising one-piece flags among other things.

some killed were still in their school uniforms, at least one was 16.

[ycombinete]

The correct term for these means is "less-lethal".

[mananaysiempre]

Also, it’s literally a war crime to use tear gas on the battlefield, yet it’s somehow OK to use it on civilians. (I understand part of the reason is to prevent a slippery slope from tear gas to chlorine, but it’s still telling.)

[whimsicalism]

i mean it’s certainly possible with crowds, police have been implicated in causing crowd crush incidents with 5x death count compared to this