It means that two groups of cops ended up hitting each other with their (less lethal but still potentially lethal and definitely injurious) rubber bullets, while they tried to box in a street of protestors. Bad planning. Or no planning.
Tbh, it almost feels like it should be required that people who use these weapons on other humans have to experience it themselvesโฆ I wonder if it isโฆ
I feel like the pendulum has swung back to the "Cheech and Chong", "Smokey and the Bandit", "Fuck the cops" of my youth. We've gone through decades of "Back the Blue" and we are again laughing at cops getting outsmarted / shot with rubber bullets. It IS time for accountability, though.
Interested to hear of a law enforcement body anywhere in America that a) has official policy actually mandating use of rubber bullets as prescribed, bouncing off the ground, versus aiming at the feet/legs, or b) follows their own mandates. These fascists are aiming at and hitting people in the head.