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