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

There are lots of videos around.

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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.

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Pne of the most sliky, pathetic strategies.

  • use the sound cannon
  • stampede
  • many people injured
  • protest are now illegal bc safety
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Fortunately once people are aware of such tricks, they won’t be effective anymore

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@europe would earplugs work for this?

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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

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Here’s an educational video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXKTBQBugIA

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Nope. It’s a sonic weapon, not loud speaker.

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How would you fight that tech?

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I bet guns would work

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“Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.”

  • Lucy Parsons
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Surely it’s not as simple as ear plugs.

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It’s why I’m asking. People should know how to combat this.

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Hoch die internationale Solidarität from Germany! (Raise high international solidarity/Cheers to international solidarity.)

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Seems like peaceful protest is no longer an option. They just forced people to go for the second option.

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Americans, take notes. The US government will use these tactics to disrupt protest, no doubt about it.

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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.

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No, they’ll just shoot us or take us to a black site. They’re not that clever.

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These systems are developed in the US too. Look up LRAD

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No one is arguing they’re not. Go be a contrarian somewhere else.

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Agents provocateur are much easier and less obvious. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

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

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

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

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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.

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Yes brave oppositional soul. But when it starts being taken down on the others we will stand tall.

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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.

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

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