Tag: Crowd control
What’s an LRAD? Explaining the ‘sonic weapons’ police use for crowd control and communication
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At vaccine mandate protests in Canberra last week, police used powerful loud-hailing devices called Long-Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs) to address protesters.
While some protesters claimed they...
Voices, hearts and hands
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Protest has, by default, always been aligned with sound.
It is an action concerned with the amplification of a message – wanting to make sure...