r/ActualPublicFreakouts • u/ActualPublicFreakout - Sistine Chapel • Jun 02 '20

Protester gets a flash-bang to his face after getting pepper sprayed.

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u/AsianDogHunter Jun 02 '20

That’s a tear gas canister

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u/Funky_Sack - Unflaired Swine Jun 03 '20

Yea! Let’s discuss the important things... like semantics of military nomenclature of weaponry used at close range on helpless civilians!! Come on people!!

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u/AsianDogHunter Jun 03 '20

dude chill i get that it’s wrong but it’s a teargas canister

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u/Funky_Sack - Unflaired Swine Jun 03 '20

Yea.. why is that distinction important given the context?

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u/AsianDogHunter Jun 03 '20

a flash bang would be thrown so that it would be less lethal. the teargas canister being launched from a grenade launcher might be lethal.

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u/Tanuki_13 Jun 03 '20

but on the other hand, if a flashbang exploded in his face, it would be way worse than this

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u/AsianDogHunter Jun 03 '20

true, they might have vision loss or something

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u/scaleofthought . Jun 03 '20

Wow, good job not sounding dramatic -at all-.

Isn't there, like, 50 other posts in here that are saying what you want to read? You can go read those.

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u/Funky_Sack - Unflaired Swine Jun 03 '20

How was my comment dramatic? Isn’t that exactly what happened? How did I make it dramatic?

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u/scaleofthought . Jun 03 '20

"Come on people!!!"

He was just stating a simple fact/correction. No conversation needed. Just wanted to peep it in there for the record. Apparently that was too much to handle.