• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hey, JP - That’s a great outfit. How much do clothes cost in The Matrix?

    On a serious note:

    Just another example of these far right asshats being violent, and the protesters they’re trying to attack showing restraint and peacefully detaining them.

    Whatever thing that guy had, it looks like a real gun. He’s lucky he didn’t get capped as soon as he started firing it.

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      1 year ago

      began firing several shots that sounded like compressed-air.

      EPD said that the weapon was a “splatter ball gun.”

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        OK…? And cops shoot black teenagers for holding cans of Arizona Iced Tea, claiming they thought it was a firearm.

        This dude had a literal replica of a firearm. He brandished it like a firearm, and threatened peaceful protestors. Whether or not the gun was real isn’t super relevant at this point.

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        I googled “splatter ball gun” and everything looked like a toy. This looked either like a real firearm, a replica or a replica airsoft gun. Either way, it looks real without a close inspection.