A photographer who provides images for pro-Palestinian groups has lost part of his ear and perforated an eardrum after being shot by police with a rubber bullet during a violent protest against a Melbourne military expo.
The 33-year-old photographer, who provides images for Free Palestine Melbourne and Free Palestine Coalition Naarm, was wounded at about 10am on Wednesday and says he is waiting to find out whether he will suffer permanent hearing loss.
Sorry, were we reading the same comment?
I dunno you tell me what the subtext of opening with defending the cops and denying that cops target media. Then goes into both-sidesism.
And then wow look at what happens later:
Oh look it’s both sides are at fault again. If you’re filming at a protest, or even attending you have some personal responsibility for getting collaterally shot in the face or teargassed.
This is nonsense, the violence is extremely asymmetrical and involves the use of indiscriminate weapons. I mean imagine if a protestor fired rubber bullets or teargas into a crowd to hit a shell or LM exec, what would anyone be saying about that person? He’s not presenting some nuanced critique, he’s gone straight into defending violence which would constitute literal war crimes if it wasn’t the police doing it.