• Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    So, they use flashbangs for… immigration enforcement ? The one “less lethal” thing that a lot of police forces actually stopped using on civilians because it was too dangerous even by their standard ?

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      6 days ago

      Police forces stopped using flashbangs because they were legally restrained in many locales, due to a variety of incidents including grenading a baby’s crib. I doubt they would have stopped otherwise.

      Edit: US police forces

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        I mean, we’ve had a lot more issues with flashballs here in France (mostly gruesome injuries but also several deaths) because the cops can’t be trusted to actually respect the safety guidelines, and the government is still ordering them by the millions every time they’re about to vote an unpopular law