Thing of it is... the photo above, was posted by the Occupy Events group on Facebook, claiming the woman pictured is Elizabeth Ritter and this is a rubber bullet wound, she received while peacefully protesting. Ms. Ritter did indeed protest and receive more than one rubber bullet wound. It is also true that the police, laughed about it.
However, the woman pictured is NOT Elizabeth Ritter and that is NOT a rubber bullet wound. In fact, it is not a wound at all. Nor, does this have anything to do with Occupy Wall Street:
"Videos made by police photographers show officers laughing after a woman attorney, dressed in a red business suit, was shot five times with rubber bullets during a November 2003 protest of the Free Trade Summit in Miami. The woman, Elizabeth Ritter, had arrived for a court appearance and found the Miami Dade courthouse closed for security reasons. She was carrying a hastily made sign that read "Fear Totalitarianism." A video made by a Miami television station shows her being shot in the leg and the head. Police videos made later show deputies laughing and cheering about "the woman in the red dress." A sergeant is seen saying, "I don’t know who got her, but it went right through the sign and hit her smack dab in the middle of the head." The video was made public by the Miami Civilian Investigative Panel which found "demonstrators were profiled, unlawfully searched, detained and/or arrested." Read more: ABC
The image posted by Occupy Events has been cropped so the watermark doesn't show. I do not know if Occupy Events intended to fool people, or if they simply reposted this fakery from another site.This same comment about Ms. Ritter, with the link to the video of cops laughing, is posted on Current, with a note that says, "The image is not from the actual victim."
Image Source: http://lyzius.deviantart.com/art/This-is-What-s-Left-192118436
OWS has enough real problems to deal with. Anyone on any side of the movement, cooking up fake shit DOES NOT HELP. It gives detractors, fuel for THEIR fire.
Rubber bullet wounds can indeed cause serious injury - even fracture bone and cause internal bleeding. In some cases, enough injury to lead to death. I seriously doubt, anyone with a hole this big in their face wouldn't be standing, calmly, having their picture taken. If you look closely, you can see nice neat threads in that hole, pictured, as if a screw was used to shape the hole - which was probably made with gelatin, just like in the movies.
Hiç yorum yok:
Yorum Gönder