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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: 0s | source
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dx87 ◴[01 Oct 19 13:15 UTC] No.21124948[source]▶
Not to defend what the police have been doing overall during this protest, but in this specific incident you can see the protestors beating a police officer on the ground, and the protestor who got shot was swinging a metal pipe at the police officer that shot him.
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nodea2345 ◴[01 Oct 19 13:46 UTC] No.21125241[source]▶
Full context is police officers often beat protests during arresting. Sometimes they just fight each other. Anyway, I think the officer have better choices than attempting to kill the kid(shot in chest is obvious willing to kill).
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LandR ◴[01 Oct 19 14:33 UTC] No.21125713[source]▶
I think anytime you shoot a gun at one someone you are shooting to kill, shoot to maim feels like it would be practically impossible outside of movies.

But I might be wrong, I've never shot a gun.

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1. samastur ◴[01 Oct 19 15:15 UTC] No.21126230[source]▶
And yet somehow Slovenian police manages to do just that (shoot to maim, usually leg), on very rare occasions when it has to use a gun and warning shot didn't suffice.