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New riot shields will suffocate protesters with sound waves

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

New riot shields will suffocate protesters with sound wavesTRatg


Law enforcement can already beat protesters with batons, spray subversive chemicals into their eyeballs, shoot rubber bullets at a speed of around 100 yards-per-second and blast deafening sound bursts.

Why, then, shouldn’t they be stop a person from breathing?

That’s the very question that Raytheon, the defense contractor and missile manufacturer that’s long-time pals with the Pentagon, seems to think it can answer with one new piece of protester-proof riot gear..... MORE
SourceRT.com

URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/raytheon-riot-sound-shield-295/

1 comment

Jesusa Bernardo said...

hay naku, bald eagle technological aid to crushing OWS. pag medyo sensitibo siguro katawan mo at minamalas.malas ka eh bingi ka o ma heart attack ka kaya?

"By blasting waves of mixed force and threshold, the users of the shield can tip-toe the line that borders on discomfort for the victim but also teeters dangerously close to eardrum rupture and lung damage. Even the weakest blast of less than 10 g at a close enough distance will be able penetrate the pain threshold with barely 140 db of sound.

"Don’t worry, though. With “non-lethal” in the name of the device, surely it won’t do all that much damage. Granted, the non-lethal projectiles fired at protesters in Oakland, California during an Occupy march earlier this year left an American military veteran with a fractured skull in critical condition, but there’s always an exception, right?"

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