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Getty photographer throwing his camera to another photographer while being tackled at Minneapolis's Whipple Building in Minnesota USA to prevent confiscation. (infosec.pub)
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This is very recent, however this does feel like a picture future generations should see.

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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

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[โ€“] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like it was already going when I was born. The Cold War was a pretty big deal at the time. Every day felt like the entire world was going to end at any moment.

[โ€“] 0k_@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

We didn't start the fire. It was always burning, since the world's been turning.