Brickbat: Proving the Point

Former Dallas SWAT officer Ryan Mabry has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault for firing "less lethal" ammunition and wounding a protester who lost an eye during the 2020 protests following the death of George Floyd. Mabry faces up to a year in jail and must give up his police certification.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Oh the bad timing of doing that during the Defund The Police era.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Meanwhile the cop that murdered Ashli Babbit got a promotion and a book deal. No brickbats for him?

[SQRLSY]

Don’t fear the revolt!
(insurrection)!

All our times have come
Here, but now they’re gone
Seasons don’t fear the revolt
Nor do the wind, the sun, or the rain
(We can be like they are)
Come on, baby
(Don’t fear the revolt)
Baby, take my hand
(Don’t fear the revolt)
We’ll be able to fly
Baby, I’m your man
La, la la, la la
La, la la, la la
Valentine is done
Here but now they’re gone
Horst Wessel and Ashli Babbs
Are together in eternity
(Horst Wessel and Ashli Babbitt)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Wessel

Horst and Babbs both wanted to grab political power through violence, and got back, what they were dishing out. Karma is a bitch! Live by the sword, die by the sword!

Refute it, bitch!

[Don't look at me!]

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[shadydave]

This is both the most obvious and most correct reply.

[SRG2]

But her sacrifice was a necessary part of her ascension to sainthood, so he was part of God's plan...

[Zipcreature]

Reason has become to anti-Republican and anti-Conservative TDS they would never publish such a Brickbat.

[rbike]

I was purposefully avoiding St George's activities.

( A man with full eyesight)

[mad.casual]

"less lethal"

So are there quotation marks here because someone said "less lethal" or because there is a desire for people to think someone shot in the eye was killed or should have been?

Turtles all the way down:

Mabry pleaded guilty in the case involving Brandon Saenz, who said he was hit by a sponge round in his left eye and had to have it surgically removed as he protested near Dallas City Hall in 2020.

As he protested? And people say Americans have shitty healthcare!

[Don't look at me!]

That surgeon has some mad skills.

[mad.casual]

I haven't combed any FBI, USPSA, or IDPA databases, but I'd say the guy going around shooting people in the eye with "regular lethal" ammunition without killing them is no slouch either.

[Incunabulum]

No, the quotations marks are there because that is how this ammo is - its 'less-lethal' by design, and with a lot of additional caveats. If you don't use them IAW training and guidelines rubber bullets, beanbag rounds, gas grenades, tasers, etc can all cause serious injury and death.

Its not just less lethal, its 'less lethal as long as you are able to refrain from using it improperly.

[mad.casual]

No, the quotations marks are there because that is how this ammo is - its 'less-lethal' by design

I don't think you know how quotation marks or maybe the word
"design" work. Because quotation marks were designed to perform the exact opposite function. See, a red SUV isn't "red" and if someone says it's "red" the quotes connote a subjective interpretation or disagreement, and "red SUV" similarly connotes a euphemism.

The real, critical question is, did/do you want the ammo to kill him, retard?

[Rick James]

protester who lost an eye during the 2020 protests following the death of George Floyd

Someone was shot in the face at a 2020 protest that followed the death of George Floyd? Do tell.

[Zipcreature]

Well Ashli Babbitt was actually shot in the upper torso…Reason, that’s what you mean? Right?

Right?

TDS piles of sh*t.

[sarcasmic]

Only one police shooting matters, and that was the premeditated murder of Saint Babbitt. Any time the police shoot someone the subject must be changed to her holiness. Anyone who discusses the police without offering a prayer to Ashli is a leftist.

[voluntaryist]

"Water Gate" got Nixon out. Then he confessed, exposed, made public a "deep state" secretly held belief, namely, "when we break the law, it's NOT criminal, i.e., we are above the law." This belief is widespread among LEOs who go beyond the law, beyond morality, and openly justify it as beneficial for THEM. They lie, cheat, steal from us and explain it by telling us they "need" our assets to do their job. What is the broader implication? Where did this superiority complex begin? From the 1790 anti-American coup when the states formed a republic, a federal authority that ruled over the citizens with deadly threat and majority support. The principle of rights was thereby refuted, but the populace did not realize it. They were not politically minded. They let a few decide their future, behind closed doors, in secret. The result was an authoritarian paradigm, the beginning of a tyrannical empire. Like all empires, it is destructive.
With modern tech it can destroy our species. But this remains misunderstood, because the ignorant majority, worldwide, believe in "The Most Dangerous Superstition" (Larken Rose).