Police Deploy 'Less Lethal' Grenades, Activists Get Less Justice

Mainstream media frames 'stinger grenades' as a concern for activist safety, while missing the larger context: the escalating tactics used against anti-war protestors globally. While The Guardian highlights the injuries and potential lawsuits, it conveniently sidesteps the pattern of increasingly militarized policing specifically targeting demonstrations against policies like unwavering support

for contentious foreign conflicts. These 'less lethal' interventions have a peculiar habit of surfacing whenever the public dares to protest military aid packages or perceived complicity in human rights abuses. One might almost think the right to free assembly is inversely proportional to the dollar amount of foreign military assistance being debated. How many 'less lethal' munitions will be

deployed before the media connects the dots between protest and suppressed dissent against war profiteering?

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