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PhD. Scholar-in-Residence, @MLK_Institute. Author, Love Letter to the Milky Way. Upcoming book: The Ecological King: Martin Luther King Jr. & Interconnectedness

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    Drew Dellinger‏ @drewdellinger 30 May 2020

    Drew Dellinger Retweeted Travon Free

    EVERY SINGLE police weapon falsely labeled "non-lethal" has, in fact, killed people: tasers, pepper spray, tear gas, rubber and wooden bullets, etc.https://twitter.com/Travon/status/1266865595871420416 …

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    Travon FreeVerified account @Travon
    Rubber bullets kill people.
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      2. Drew Dellinger‏ @drewdellinger 30 May 2020

        Beyond that, these weapons are often intentionally and viciously misused by police with callous disregard for human life & safety. A clear example, caught on camera, is when -- during #Occupy protests in Oakland -- police fired a teargas canister directly at Scott Olsen's head.

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      3. Drew Dellinger‏ @drewdellinger 30 May 2020

        Think on that: these teargas guns are capable of launching their metal canisters hundreds of feet into the air, & a police officer in Oakland purposely fired one directly at Scott's head from about ten feet away. Predictably, it fractured his skull.

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      4. Drew Dellinger‏ @drewdellinger 30 May 2020

        In 2003, I was at anti-Iraq War protest at the Oakland Docks where the police went apeshit. Oakland police ran over folks w/ motorcycles & fired "wooden dowel" bullets straight at people's heads & faces & bodies. I saw huge purple welts on torsos & jaws; bleeding noses & hands..

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      5. Drew Dellinger‏ @drewdellinger 30 May 2020

        ... At one point I was near the police & saw that on every one of these wooden bullet guns was a sticker: "WARNING: DO NOT FIRE DIRECTLY AT PEOPLE." The were meant to be used as crowd control by skipping the wooden bullets off the ground, ricocheting them into people's legs...

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      6. Drew Dellinger‏ @drewdellinger 30 May 2020

        The Oakland police completely ignored the manufacturer's warning stickers on proper use & fired the wooden bullets straight at heads, eyes, faces, bodies. (And I'm sure the police and the manufacturer never intended otherwise.)

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      7. Drew Dellinger‏ @drewdellinger 30 May 2020

        As I think more about it, I'm SURE the manufacturers knew police forces would fire these wooden bullets directly at people. The stickers warning not to do that were likely there primarily to deflect legal liability when these "non-lethal" guns inevitably killed folks.

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      8. Drew Dellinger‏ @drewdellinger 30 May 2020

        Gun maker's lawyer: "These wooden bullet guns were misused! See the sticker we put on every weapon? Can't blame us!" GTFO.

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      2. Drew Dellinger‏ @drewdellinger 1 Jun 2020
        Replying to @Victorgotasthma @Glock__Lesnar

        They are referred to as both. Here is an @latimes article about the protest I'm describing. The very first sentence says: "Police opened fire with nonlethal weapons on antiwar protesters and some longshoremen Monday morning." https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-apr-08-war-protests8-story.html …pic.twitter.com/hmJBCEq4j7

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      1. BoredGeek  🏳️‍🌈‏ @boredgeek 1 Jun 2020
        Replying to @drewdellinger @kittystryker

        Ya people need to stop calling these weapons non-lethal. They are "less-lethal" and rightly described as such.

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