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Despite risks which include permanent hearing loss, LRADs are increasingly part of police's crowd control arsenal
After a wait of nearly ten months, MuckRock has finally received documents from the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department regarding their response to the protests surrounding President Donald Trump's inauguration early this year. Surprisingly, while we didn't receive any records related to the J20 protests, we did receive documents relating to January 21st's Women's March, which in Washington D.C. alone attracted by conservative estimates between 450,000 and 500,000 people. While it was the largest protest in the city since the anti-Vietnam War protests of the '60s and '70s, no arrests were made.
The After-Action Report provided by the DCMPD, under the header "Improvements," contains the information that the department utilized both a D.C. National Guard Jump Team, and a Long Range Acoustical Device, better known as an LRAD. The LRAD was used "to assist in instructing the crowd flows on continuing to flow away from the entrances of the stations."
Since the first documented use of an LRAD sound cannon on protesters by Pittsburgh Police during the 2009 G20 summit, LRAD use by police against activists appears to be on the rise. The Pittsburgh Police Bureau used it again in 2011 during the Super Bowl, the New York Police Department has used it several times including the Eric Garner protests and during Occupy, the Oakland Police Department also used it against Occupy protesters, and more recently and perhaps most prominently, an LRAD was deployed during the Ferguson unrest and the Standing Rock protests.
There are various models of LRAD, with military grade versions that can send voice communications up to 5.5 miles away, and slightly less powerful versions like the LRAD 500X or 300X which are what police departments generally use. All can produce a sound somewhat akin to a high-powered car alarm that can cause intense headaches, nausea, loss of balance, and potentially permanent hearing loss.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 28 2017, @11:36PM
Be careful what you wish for.
Killery would have given us (at best) a bunch more years of do-nothing, just like O'Bummer.
(With Trump, at least Progressive folks are getting active.)
If Hillary Clinton Had Won, We’d Be Even Worse [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [counterpunch.org]
In November, Jimmy Dore [google.com] reminded us that Donna Brazile's "revelations" didn't really tell us anything we didn't already know about Crooked Hillary.
DNC/DNCC/The Dumbocrat Party are thoroughly corrupt and need reform from the inside.
Are you attending party meetings locally?
Have you signed up for committees?
...or do you think that change just happens through osmosis?
The people [...] didn't get who they chose. That's a bad thing
What's particularly bad is that USAians don't get to hear more than 2 voices because of Lamestream Media (though every USAian is ostensibly an owner of the airwaves).
Remember how CBS's CEO said out loud that Trump was crap for the country but great for his company's profits?
...and because of The Commission on Presidential Elections, which is a monopoly, wholly-owned by The Big 2, whose sole business is exclusion.
(The League of Women Voters, who had run the debates for several years, let you hear more voices.)
the system treats the entity of a state as more important than the people in the states
On his weekly radio show, [ralphnaderradiohour.com] Ralph Nader repeatedly talks about The National Popular Vote bill. [nationalpopularvote.com]
(34 states are necessary to change the Constitution.)
Is your state on the list?
If not, what are you doing about that?
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