whoops no this is UC Davis in 2011. the cop pepper spraying these nonviolent student protestors filed for worker’s compensation claiming “psychiatric damage” due to having his name released and won more than $38k USD in compensation.

  • very_poggers_gay [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    so the evidence for this claim (“people were run over with tanks, and their remains hosed down the street drains”) is literally just someone said that someone else said hearsay passed through a game of telephone.

    I went down an internet rabbit hole the other night trying to find the true source of the g*re images most commonly attributed to events in Tiananmen Square. I made like no progress after an hour, but one thread that stuck out to me was on the subreddit /r/MorbidReality, where a mod said the images were proven true by a reliable source, but their source was just a link to the search results from typing “Tiananmen Square” into gettyimages lol smuglord Like not even a specific image, just the landing page for searching a keyword on a stock image site…

    If the proof of burden is on those alleging a massacre of (tens of) thousands of civilians, you would think they would do more than share like a small handful of images, most of which come with no easily accessible or verifiable context/explanation. it’s so weird.

    edit cause the thread is still new-ish: if a user can shed light on the original source(s) of the images I’m describing can you please share so i can find intellectual closure on them?