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An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"
(www.motherjones.com)
Threatened? So they didn't ID them.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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Can you imagine 6 dudes with AR-15s, nothing fancy, responding that that threat? One wonders what might happen.
If gta has taught me anything is that one well placed shot from a measly handgun can take down a chopper
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What about walkie talkies? Short wave radios? Older tech comms devices?
What about open source open hardware anti-air missiles?
One wonders just how viable the Ukranian strategy would be to take out LAPD choppers (when landed, of course).
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Would be much appreciated if you could have a word with your people about this.
I'm an American, but my only experience with LA was traveling through for 2 days about 10 years ago. AKA no experience with LA.
This action appears to be originated from LAPD and therefore the local LA government. I have always considered LA to be deeply blue, and would therefore think that their local LA government would be Democrat, not Republican.
So should this not be the local blue voting populace having a word with their blue elected politicians?
LAPD is notoriously corrupt and vile even among other police peers and has been for a long time. Its only competitor is the NYPD
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