The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.
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The pig sees her, turns, aims, and shoots her almost point blank.
Even if less-lethal ammunition were risk free, that should still be a crime. Even in the ideal risk-free case, how is this any different from assault, if the cop came up behind a reporter swinging his baton. There was clearly no justifiable reason, it was clearly assault for fun or intimidation, and any reasonable person would know that.