The shoot was bad. There were cops in gear standing by the door talking to her and the rioters before the rioters broke the window. I am sure they didn’t warn them of being shot but may be just may be were asked to disperse. It’s on video too btw.
Oh and given your desire to protect rights for pre trial detainees, i hope to see you in the thread about A Manhattan DA trying to reduce pre trial detention because of how terrible it is.
The relationship between US corporate media and the government is very similar to that of Russian oligarchs and the Russian government. In both cases they are nominally independent, but they know better than to cross the government about important issues.
If you doubt that, consider how an alliance of government-sanctioned tech monopolies took down Parler to enforce election-related censorship. If the similar thing happened in the Russia, Democrats would be condemning the obvious violations of civil liberties, but instead Democrats are demanding even more aggressive censorship.
By government, I mean the surveillance state. The main difference between the US and Russia is that Putin appears to be in firm control the successors to the KGB in Russia. In the US, it not clear that Biden can control his own bowels much less the surveillance state.
The culture is different over there. They tend to be fatalistic types who take abuse from their governments that seems insane to us but when they get riled up they aren’t all mouth like Americans.
They will burn that ■■■■■■■ government to the ground. They will tear that president and his family apart with their bare hands
If they get ahold of them. They will use human wave charges to overwhelm cops firing into them as they rush. Did you ever see what the Ukranians did at Donbas.