Belgrade authorities have used sound weapons on the crowd of protesters. The video description has some educational links.

There are lots of videos around.

  • @AccountMaker@slrpnk.net
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    1655 days ago

    Honestly, we avoided a massive tragedy at that moment. People described that it sounded like a car or airplane was coming at them at full speed, so they instinctively ran away from the roads. People further away didn’t see or hear anything, they just saw a crowd running in panic and so they ran as well. I was maybe 50-100m away from where it happened, and all we heard was noise, yells, and then people running, so the people around me also started running, but we all stopped after maybe 5s.

    A lot of people think that our overlord wanted to cause a stampede which would lead to thousands of injuries and just chaos in order to discredit the protests. Or maybe they wanted to launch the cannon after the 15 mins of silence were over, which would cause mass confusion since nobody would have any idea what was going on, but triggered it early. In any case, the psychopath used an illegal weapon to attack people literally standing still and being quiet.

    • @Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      174 days ago

      Some police forces have used sound cannons against protesters, for example during the 2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit,[7] the 2014 Ferguson unrest,[8] and the 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protest in North Dakota,[9] among others.

  • @kingofras@lemmy.world
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    585 days ago

    Comment and upvote boys, not reddit, no meta, not shitter, not legacy media will report on this. This is why we exist

    • @antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 days ago

      A thread about this is literally pinned on r/europe.

      Edit: Also on front page of r/popular with >66k upvotes.

    • @Ooops@feddit.org
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      45 days ago

      I got links to videos on Twitter (although I didn’t use that shit so maybe they are deleted by now), saw multiple post on Reddit and the video here is hosted on f***ing Youtube.

      Yes, a lot of those are shit in general and should be avoided. But somehow it seems they are still not shitty enough if you have to invent bullshit about how they all refuse to report on this.

    • @Aqarius@lemmy.world
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      255 days ago

      That may have been the point: cause stampede, people die, ban protests, “LRAD? What’s that?”

  • @nf999@lemm.ee
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    305 days ago

    So what did the government do, planes/jets? Says sound cannon, what is that? And furthermore, WTF! A peacefull protest, what were they trying to achieve? How sad do you have to be to order this action, let alone to actually do this as an employee??

    • @Aqarius@lemmy.world
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      235 days ago

      LRAD. Wouldn’t surprise me if they were field testing the gear for the yanks or whoever. Would also explain why they did it in the middle of a “moment of silence”.

      • @dukatos@lemm.ee
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        34 days ago

        The government hates that silence because it reminds them they killed 15 people on the train station in Novi Sad.

        Protests started when they attacked students giving the respects to victims.

  • @dergewerkschafter@feddit.org
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    65 days ago

    It’s still not entirely clear to me: did the government really use these weapons? I don’t recognize enough from the photos. :( And don’t understand myself in such weapons either. What I would like to add to the conversation, however, is that Novak Djokovic and several other prominent athletes FINALLY support the protests.