Belgrade authorities have used sound weapons on the crowd of protesters. The video description has some educational links.
There are lots of videos around.
Well it’s good to see that Serbia hasn’t changed much since Arkan left.
Edit: /s
Seems like peaceful protest is no longer an option. They just forced people to go for the second option.
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.
Fortunately once people are aware of such tricks, they won’t be effective anymore
@europe would earplugs work for this?
Here’s an educational video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXKTBQBugIA
Sound is moving air and carries energy. With the right frequency and intensity it could definitely physically fuck you up even if your ears are covered.
Wikipedia:
Studies have found that exposure to high intensity ultrasound at frequencies from 700 kHz to 3.6 MHz can cause lung and intestinal damage in mice
Nope. It’s a sonic weapon, not loud speaker.
LRADs are loudspeakers. Loudspeakers which can output in the order of 160db at 1m. Anything can be a weapon when you make it powerful enough.
Technically, yes. A bullet is just a fast moving object.
I was refering to sheer power of the thing. Guy asked if earplugs would help. LARD gets a tree swinging. It’s not “just a speaker” at that point.
@europe might have to read more about this but I thought sonic weapons were also able to destroy your eardrums right
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Americans, take notes. The US government will use these tactics to disrupt protest, no doubt about it.
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.
Agents provocateur are much easier and less obvious. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
There’s also this alternate view from the top:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GotCNOgMN80
And let’s be honest: Whoever uses a weapon like that in a crowd like that is playing with lifes. That can led to a crowd panic, which will kill people.
Crazy shit. Expect this nonsense to hit US rallies as well.
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??
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.
It’s not really the type of weapon that you can just buy off the shelf (for such a scale).
What kind of bastards! They were protesting with silence!
Wild.
