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Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests

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628 points nodea2345 | 1 comments | 01 Oct 19 11:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source
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Clubber[dead post] ◴[01 Oct 19 13:10 UTC] No.21124901[source]▶
People don't think this sort of thing can happen in the US. Just look at what the federal, state and local government does to people it doesn't like now.
PostPost ◴[01 Oct 19 13:19 UTC] No.21124986[source]▶
1. Everyone that's read the news in the last few years knows this young people can be shot by police in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Tamir_Rice

2. This link is about what's happening in Hong Kong, not the US, and this sort of what-about-ism isn't informative or helpful.

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cdmckay ◴[01 Oct 19 13:32 UTC] No.21125106[source]▶
I think it is helpful because it’s asking for consistency.

People are (rightfully) outraged when a protestor dies in Hong Kong, but protestors also die in the US.

For example, the Kent State shootings: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

The point is that if you’re demanding a certain standard from China or other countries, you should demand that in the US as well.

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1. pimmen ◴[01 Oct 19 13:41 UTC] No.21125198[source]▶
Kent State happened almost 50 years ago, and for the recent years people are outraged when protestors get shot to death by US police. There's even movements dedicated to fighting the fact that some groups of people get shot more often than others in the US.

I think this kind of what-about-ism by comparing to the US contributes absolutely nothing to the current discussion around police violence in Hong Kong. Unless it's used as an analogy to actually make sense of the situation ("the police are doing what they're doing at Kent State, can we learn something from that which would be applicable in this situation?") it only distracts from the topic at hand rather than actually discussing the morals and context of what's happening in Hong Kong, which is what this link is about.